With Fall of Walker is Life a Bitch or an Angel of Mercy?

Walker's campaign manager thinks she's a bitch.

'It's a f---ing bitch, man,' Rick Wiley tells POLITICO of the Wisconsin governor's stunning collapse.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/scott-walker-2016-fall-213956#ixzz3mYsQK4eo

To me it's no small mercy that we have at least taken a Scott Walker presidency off the table. 

You have to laugh at the confirmation bias of FiveThrityEight. After telling us Scott Walker would be a phenomenal candidate as he appeals to both the mainstream and the base they tell us that the fact that he flamed out so quickly doesn't mean he was at all a bad candidate. 

Turns out according to them, bad candidates stay around the longest. 

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/dont-measure-scott-walkers-candidacy-by-how-long-it-lasted/?fb_comment_id=fbc_1064272773605597_1064291093603765_1064291093603765#f1c80abb14

Talk about confirmation bias-his failure proves how great a candidate he really is. My guess is that commentator Phillip Acurni gets it right:

"Yeah, they really got it wrong. Although to be fair, "a strong buy at 4%" is not really a glamorous place for a candidate to be in in the first place. Mostly, I think the bias is Mr. Silver still thinks Republicans are rational actors."

Ok, I guess there are any number of reasons Walker flamed out-he clearly thinks it was Trump. I think that's right though he also just showed that he doesn't have strong command of national issues. 

Though everyone in the Beltway kills Trump for saying that he watches shows to learn about foreign policy Walker's claim that he would be a strong Commander in Chief because he crushed Wisconsin labor unions kind of underscored that he' knows nothing about national politics or issues just local Wisconsin ones. 

Really, more than just Wisconsin, his main issue was unions. This is what he took from Reagan-he claims that the Soviet Union knew they couldn't mess with Reagan once they say him crush the airline union. 

In many ways he is a single issue candidate: crush the unions. 

"There’s so much we’ll never know, such as how far he was willing to take his single issue. For Walker it was unions at dawn, unions at dusk, unions in his dreams. Having hobbled them in Wisconsin, he vowed to cripple them nationally, and who’s to say it would have stopped there? I feel certain that he was mere weeks away from a big speech advocating the deployment of ground troops to stamp out collective bargaining among the Sherpas in Nepal."

"I feel certain, too, that his best gaffes were still to come, though he gave us several gems. In an era lacking visionary leadership, he envisioned a great wall along our northern border to keep out the tides of Canadians fleeing the tyranny of free health insurance. And we learned that years back, he mangled an intended “mazel tov” in a letter to a Jewish constituent, instead writing: “Thank you again and Molotov.”

"I miss him already. And I wonder: Was it his shallowness that undid him? Just how little learning will Republican voters abide in a candidate? Did he test the limit?"

"One of his former aides, Liz Mair, suggested as much, firing off tweets on Monday about his errors, including “not educating himself fast enough” on national and world affairs."

"Walker evaded foreign policy questions, apparently petrified of being tripped up. He bungled domestic policy questions, seemingly unable to cling to a sturdy position."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/opinion/frank-bruni-scott-walkers-cocktail-of-ignorance.html?_r=0

He really was Rick Perryesque. 

We as a country though are very lucky. A Scott Walker Presidency would have been about as bad as it could get.