How Scott Walker Became an Asterisk

Politico: “Several senior Republicans with knowledge of his campaign said the 47-year-old Walker… was simply too confident in his own abilities and often acted, ineptly, as his own campaign manager.”

“Walker’s campaign had been imploding for weeks, but his public low point — and one that made him vulnerable to charges of weakness — was his stumbling response to the birthright citizenship proposal, a quixotic bid to challenge the 14th Amendment guarantee that all people born in the U.S. be given citizenship rights. Over the course of seven days in August, Walker rattled out no fewer than three positions — a call to challenge the amendment, a solid “no” when asked if he planned to challenge existing laws, and a call for the status quo.”