Wow, why don't you tell your fellow Mitt-worshippers that Fred's surge will hurt McCain?
They are going Ron Paul Paranoid Psychotic over this!
Of course, when Fred Thompson wasn’t running ads and someone said he was giving up, that was a dirty trick.
Who was that someone, Chuckie? Oh, that's right: you and your fellow Mitt-worshippers, proud member of the Romney Sleaze Machine. And what about the "Thompson's dropping out" rumor in Iowa that was traced to the Romney campaign?
It was not traced to Mitt’s campaign, it was clearly reported that it was republicans who were close to fred’s campaign, who were simply try to gain credibility by selling themselves as predictors of the future, and failed.
Tying it to Romney was just a clever political ploy. If Romney was actually capable of pulling off everything he is accused of (manipulating other campaign’s supporters, buying votes and endorsements, sometimes YEARS in the future, fooling 30% of the conservatives in the country, etc. etc., we would HAVE to pick him as President, because it would be clear there was nothing he couldn’t do.
I NEVER endorsed the idea that Fred would drop out — frankly, I’m not much for that type of futures prediction. What will happen happens. I love talking about what the merits of various scenarios would be, but not predicting them. I didn’t think Fred was going to drop out before South Carolina in any case.
I think a Fred surge WOULD hurt McCain. MY fear is that there will not BE a Fred surge. There hasn’t been so far. The NRTL endorsement didn’t help. His good performance in a debate in November didn’t help. His several weeks of criss-crossing Iowa barely got him over McCain. His 3rd-place finish didn’t seem to get him any votes in New Hampshire. He couldn’t break through in conservative Wyomning, he’s polling 10% in the national polls, and as of a couple days ago was at 12% and in 4th place in South Carolina.
I don’t say that to say he shouldn’t do better, just noting that there is evidence that counting on a Fred surge is not the best bet around.
And in fact, it is Fred’s lack of a surge that has committed me firmly to Mitt Romney — because he has enough support, money, and votes that he can make it to the convention with a large delegation, and could keep anybody else from getting a majority.