Walker won on his own record of fiscal sanity. Thanks to Walker, Wisconsin didn’t have to go through the agonies of California. Some unions are miffed at the shortening of the gravy train, but nobody in that spat is being threatened with wearing a barrel either now or in their retirement.
Whoever Mitt picks will become the GOP heir apparent in 2020, should Mitt last eight years. The veep’s talents will probably be wasted for eight years, but then the blackbird will be set to fly, so to speak.
Romney can only last 8 years if he ditches his stated attachment to keeping the “useful parts” of Obamacare and otherwise governs as the total opposite of the the recent governor of Massachusetts by the same name.