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No offense, but I couldn’t make sense out of your post. (Sorry!)
The 9/11 hijackers changed the rules of the game.
The Democrats moving the primaries all up front changed the rules of the game.
To win a generational war against IslamoNazis you have to be able to plan way ahead.
To win the nomination of a major national political party you have to plan and organize way ahead.
Fred hasn’t done that.
I don’t believe you can get the nomination anymore without early planning.
“Tradition” of summer announcements is gone.