combined with a fundraising drought
You mean like the quarter million in two days on no prior notice last week? Or the week before that, the $100,000 in ten hours or so with no prior notice?
“Without a solid third-place finish, there’s no point in going on,” a Thompson adviser said Wednesday. “It was an honorable race, and he turned out to be a good candidate. The moment had just passed.”
Would a real adviser really be dumb enough to say that? Assist himself in losing his own gig by destroying expectations and running voters off?
He did something similar on Sunday, when Thompson—apparently in a semi-jocular mood—dismayed his staff by telling reporters that he needed to finish second in the caucuses, a bar that nobody here expects him to cross.
This is proof that they'll uncritically accept the word of any naysayer. Fred explained this situation this morning in an interview with (the hot) Jane Skinner.
She is hot, and this thread McrOMNEY thread is lame.
Did I say thread? Oops.