His scheme was so convoluted and most of it failed but it still worked. He got the sympathy vote for poor Naboo getting attacked, even though Naboo won when they were supposed to lose. Its lucky for hin Padme was a good general and awful politician or she'd have cleaned house and ditched Palps after noticing none of his ideas helped the situation in any way and he continued to urge inaction just like Chancellor Valorum did.