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.
Exactly right. They're only opportunities to make a boo-boo or have a gotcha moment, ala Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen.