Well, I think they believed it would be a strategic move that would ‘suddenly’ take the air out of the opposition. And now when people ask for copies of passports or student transcripts he can sneer “Well I released my BC and people still said the same things about me so I am not going to bother with passport and transcripts etc.” I think they timed it wrong in a way though because people are so disgusted with him that the BC just became a stick to poke him with (there’s no other way to get him off the golf course) so it’s not like he was popular except for this one little document (which I think was their old campaign mindset).
I think you may be right. I think he has misjudged the level of disenchantment Americans are feeling for him right now. High gas prices may be doing what a foreign, socialistic world-view, questionable ethics, and lack of discernable principles haven’t done.