No, I don’t think Walker was fooled. The game is this, consultants live and die off of other people — candidates. They need to find someone brave enough to run for public office while they get to toil behind the scenes and get paid handsomely.
The consultants will whisper head-inflating things into the candidate’s ear (not necessarily just Walker) to inspire him along. The candidate is the consultant’s meal ticket.
Moreover, the candidate is a meal ticket for the corrupt MSM who plays the game extremely well. They run stories to intentionally heat up a race, to make it a horse race, to induce candidates from all parties to spend ever greater amounts on advertising. You watch, if the race is dull or an opponent is actually weak, thus not producing a interesting contest, the media (local and national) will puff up a candidate like a prize fighter might hold up a patsy for a few rounds. It’s all designed to extract as much advertising dollars from a political race as possible.
So in the end, the candidate is just a vehicle to earn money for consultants and the corrupt MSM. Sure you always want your guy to win so as to increase your prestige or the possibility of getting a government job, but in the end the consultants can always walk away with a fatter bank account regardless of how their candidate fares in an election.
Yeah, always say nice things about your guy afterwards because if you don’t you may not get the next guy who is willing to enter the political cage match.
Are they simply “not failing enough” in the state and local elections (despite the consultants that is) that the candidates simply carry their baggage into the national races? Do the consultant class get “partied and parried” by 10,000 evening parties with liberal, ultra-suave and debonair political types at Alexandria parties and the Washington press corpse of 24-hour-per-day Washington Post and NY Times?