People are scratching their heads wondering how the GOP has slipped so far, after the betrayals by John McCain over the last decade, that McCain would win two very important early primaries (NH & SC). The answer to that is Fred Thompson's lethargic campaign.
Because W wants McCain in the White House Fred was sent in to make certain Rudy's bid was short lived. W owes McCain a bunch of favors as he has been W's pack mule throughout his eighth years for all his more liberal ideas. The establishment GOP which is Rockefeller did not want Rudy in at all because he was not manageable. The same reason they attack Ron Paul as fringe because they can't own or control him and the same reason they made sure Hunter was completely ignored.
The corporate paid talking head so called conservative talk radio shills did not give Hunter even a mention and gave Paul their disdain. Once again the looser? Conservatives. Fred sold us out while in the senate but some just don't want to remember or face that fact. He did it not once but several times. First in the hearings then in the trial.
It's much easier it seems to create a make believe candidate like what happened in 2000 with so called Conservative Bush who as well is at best moderate but leans liberal on many issues. It's taken nearly eight years for some to take off the Bush Blinders and see him for what he is.
Fred will drop out maybe as early as tomorrow afternoon more likely after Florida. He has accomplished what he was sent in to do. Derail the ultral liberal Rudy then the Conservative movement yet again for another election cycle. W wants McCain to replace him but will settle for any of the rest except Paul and Rudy. That leaves Mitt, Huck, and McCain all three globalist shills like W. W yet again wrecks another election cycle for conservatives and nobody saw the train wreck coming. The good news is Bush is term limited and no more election management for him.
Pure sophistry.