Folks, I'm not elated with he existing GOP field either. But if Thompson can manage a non-campaign no better than this, how the hell are we expecting him to competently battle the most motivated and well-funded Democrat smear machine in our lifetimes?
It's getting pretty late in the game. We need less people consuming money and political oxygen in this primary now, not more.
The average person doesn’t care about the debates, much less about campaign staff changes. The issues are the issues - his positions on them and how he would handle them as president.
You may want them all to coalesce around one candidate, but without Thompson that one will be Giulianni, who most here don’t want.
Does Fred?
I hope so...
Running a campaign is alot like running a business...you rid your organization of non-productive dead wood. Why hang on to and pay for non-productive individuals and individuals that don't fit in organization structure?
Nonsense. There is still a whole excruciating ~year~ and more to go. I am increasingly of the opinion that the early primaries are now too early to be relevant.
Letting the party decide too early who their candidate is just leaves a very, very long time... Time enough for the nominee to fall on his face. Leaving it once again to the convention to find another. Which, IMHO wouldn't be a bad way to go. This business of starting campaigns 18 or 20 months out is just too much.
It’s almost a certainty that every campaign had many arrivals and departures as they were getting up and running. Thompson’s are just a lot more public, that’s all.
Heck, several campaigns on both sides of the aisle have had top aides and contributors arrested for various offenses, or even flee the country. In fact, the only campaigns I can think of who haven’t experienced public turmoil among their campaign staff are the ones that are so small that they haven’t had the opportunity to hire enough staff that they then have to fire.