Was that the Thompson plan all along? Give conservatives an alternative to Romney, so Romney wouldn’t become the inevitable candidate and McCain would have time to get off the floor and stage a comeback?
It would explain why Thompson didn’t compete much for anything before South Carolina, and why he ignored NH, and why he jumped into Iowa to try to take the shine off of Huckabee so he wouldn’t become too powerful before New Hampshire.
I think Thompson wants to be president, but you sure could look at his campaign and think he’s doing it for McCain.
He won’t even attack McCain for McCain/Feingold.
Mary Matalin stated from the beginning they were basically using the same strategy as Rudy. He only needs to be very mediocre now. Super Tuesday is what he waiting around for as well as Rudy.