And if you don’t think that’s going to send the media into even greater than usual overdrive to tear apart and make issue of the GOP candidate, then I think you haven’t really paid attention to modern American politics.
Look at what they have been able to spin about Fred’s ‘not wanting the job’ and ‘not having fire in the belly’, and just imagine what they can do with something substantial.
They’ll have an embarrassment of riches to work with with Mitt, Huck, or Rudy. Their approach to McCain may be more interesting, because their habit of pumping him up is so long-held; and with Fred because, as we’ve seen so far they pretty much have had to fabricate ad hominem issues with him, but that’s still what they’ll be about.