Walker is a good governor of his (liberal) state. He should be given credit for that, but I never really understood his appeal nationally. He seems very GOPe ish to me. Every now and then he say something I liked and then he’d have to talk it back. His Chamber of Commerce donors owned him.
He was good as Governor, I agree. But he didn’t stand for anything on the national scene. It seemed to me that there was no motivation there in terms of what he wanted to accomplish as President, other than to BE President. If that’s your only motivation, then you do what Walker did. You find a team of consultants and donors, and let THEM get you elected. And that means following their advice on what to say, and what to ‘believe’. Once you do that, to a large extent, you work for them, not the other way around.