[neverdem]

She racks the balls, as in shooting pool, again in 2012.

[Finalapproach29er]

Hillary didn’t want Nixon to have an Impeachment lawyer.

This lady is secretly nuts.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I do think that Fred is playing this just about right, but needs to get in by September. August is the dead month in Washington, DC.

In before the Hunterites, Rooty-tooties, Paulestinians and Mittheads.

[George W. Bush]

While he conducts a behind-the-scenes courtship of conservative leaders and builds grassroots networks to help him ramp up quickly for early primaries, he has carefully avoided being linked to the uninspiring gaggle of other GOP candidates. More importantly, if he wins the party's nod, he's less likely to limp into the general-election campaign burdened by labels like "pro-Bush conservative," which someone like, say, Mitt Romney might. His relative dearth of time on the trail makes it harder for Democrats to label him, in some ways, and easier for him to chart a course for the middle.

This is why I say Fred is shrewd. This is what he gains by staying out. And the current debates and campaign actually make the candidates look smaller.