Campaign Fred is dead. The choices we have left are in many ways almost as bad as having no choice. Thompson wasn’t perfect, but he was at least a more consistent conservative than any of the current front runners.
Some people say he tanked because he started to late, or that his organization wasn’t organized or that he didn’t have the fire in his belly and maybe those people are correct. I think it’s a bit more than that though. I think the lateness didn’t really hurt him and he had a conservative message. He seemed to be campaigning at least as hard or harder than Rudy.
When elections come, people generally want change. Reagan won on his ability to communicate change from the Carter doldrums. When Bush 41 ran, people wanted change. Along came the younger Clinton who seemed to get that message and was able to have two successful terms. Bush 43 was another change and now, at the end of his second term, people are want things changed again. Most people didn’t see Thompson as a portent for change. Thompson was offering old school conservatism and that isn’t change in most folks’ minds. Never mind that conservatism works and leads to prosperity, people wanted change and they just didn’t see it in Fred.
McCain seems to be where some people are heading, but he’s no conservative. He never really has been and he isn’t now. McCain is a media darling and his name is too close to others such as Feingold, Kennedy and Liebermann. McCain is not Presidential material. He’s a loose cannon and has very little, if any, executive experience. McCain, despite is protestations to the contrary, tried to push amnesty for illegals. I just don’t know.
Forget the Huckster. I had a commenter ask since Fred had withdrawn, would I consider Huck and my answer is no – not at this time. Fred had the most to say about the Huckster and most of it wasn’t that good. The only thing that Huck has over McCain is the executive experience.
Rudy has the experience and I might even consider supporting him, but unless he does well in Florida, he’ll be hitting the road as well.
That leaves Mitt. Like the last guy from Massachusetts who ran for President, Mitt has a flip-flop problem, but Romney has the executive experience and says he’s come home to conservatism to stay. We’ll see.
For now, I’m leaning Mittward. Unless one of the other front runners can convince me otherwise, I’m going to give tentative support to the Romney campaign.
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