Lumbering, slow, and lazy he is not. If you go back even three months you will see as many or more campaign stops for Thompson as the others. What you will not see is any coverage of them.
If you go back even three months you will see as many or more campaign stops for Thompson as the others. What you will not see is any coverage of them.
See, that’s the problem; a savy candidate and/or campaign manager would know how to generate excellent coverage for him. The coverage might not all be “good”, but no coverage is bad coverage, in some ways. You’d think with all the contacts Fred and his wife have, that they’d be able to keep him in the headlines, but they haven’t.
Having a winning message is only 1/2 the battle; for instance, Ron Paul and Kucinich (sp?) have similar, fringe messages, and both are polling very poorly, since neither have a message that can win. Ron Paul however, love him or not, has an absolutely incredible campaign machine to market his message, and obviously has been able to garner a lot of money and free publicity as a result. Of course, he won’t win since he doesn’t have a winning message.
I’ve been a supporter of Fred even before he officially announced, but he’s done a horrible job of marketing himself; hopefully he/we can turn things around before it’s too late.