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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.

Fred hasn’t done that.

How do you know that?
From all I've seen and read, Fred is the frontrunner without even breaking a sweat yet. I don't happen to believe that's a coincidence. So keep your chin up - - Fred will announce when the time is right, and timing, after all, is everything. Meanwhile, I think Fred is very busy getting his all ducks in a row. Let the rest of these candidates beat each other up for awhile. Cripes, the election isn't for another year-and-a-half.

Regards,
LH

I'm especially wondering about the whole dynamic of the early campaign and the compressed primaries. We've basically got about 8 months or so now, where the only things that will "count" are the MSM "polls" (bogus), and the "money primary" of who are the best fundraisers. Those are two seriously flawed ways to judge who would actually be a good president.

Then, all of a sudden, the primaries will come and go. Wham. The candidates will have a couple weeks to blow their budgets on un-informative TV ads, and people will have voted. But there won't be the traditional process of somebody getting momentum, while the tail of the list drop out one by one. It'll be much more sudden.

Is it going to be just a process of the voters rubber-stamping the "front-runner"? Or just the guy who can buy the most (or best) TV ads? In the one case, the party is basically handing the choice over to the MSM and their "polls." In the other case, the party is just handing the choice over to the big donors. Between the MSM and the big donors, I'm not sure if the ordinary people have any role any more, other than just voting "da" for the annointed one when the day comes.

I'm not talking about people like Freepers, I'm talking about the 90% of people who do vote in primaries but are not "politics minded" the way we are.

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.

I'd agree with your first and last assertions, but not the middle one.