Kieth Olbermann said it all last night when Fred gave his speech, and then a totally red-faced Kieth appeared on camera screaming "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT! We just got snookered", next to him Chrissy Matthews was sitting there literally slack-jawed. Both of them were just waiting for the goodbye so they could dance on the desks and celebrate the death of conservatism, and Fred played them like a finely tuned instrument.
If the press is going to get that pissed, and want Fred gone that bad, then there is a reason for it -- they are scared to death of him or anyone else with a Conservative message.
So, I will fight on for no other reason than to deny those scumbags any pleasure, and if Fred's 3rd or 4th or even 5th place finishes take any votes at all from Huckster and prevent him from the nomination, well that is an even more wonderful bonus.
Once, Fred drops out I will be done. Won't give a hoot who the nominee is, other than it not being Huckabee. Huckabee will be used by the press to completely destroy the Republican party for decades, and he will ignorantly hyuck hyuck hyuck along blissfully unaware of what a joke he is.
The other three stooges will get zero support from me in any way, but will probably get a vote in November for no other reason than to vote for the WOT, but even that is not set in stone if there is a good third party option.
I am beginning to think this country in general, and the idiots in this party in particular need another dose of complete Democrat rule to wake them up.
The lessons of 1980 have gone totally forgotten, and with the economy being sound and things being good the rank and file have time to play games with their vote and focus on their pet issues.
It took Carter to bring us Reagan, perhaps we are back to that point. Perhaps we need a Huckabee or one of the other Democrats to get in, tax the hell out of us and tank the economy. Sad such lessons have to be harsh, but memories seem short, maybe we will do this dance over and over again. Lather, rinse repeat...
Of course this is all moot right now, Fred is still in and I have faith he will do the right thing. I know he has the support to keep going and we are still moving forward with things here.
In match-point bridge, if one is guaranteed to get a cold bottom on a board unless the opponents have some particular arrangement of the cards, that is the arrangement one should assume exists, no matter how unlikely it may be. Even if there's less than a 1% chance of such a play actually working, it costs nothing to take that chance.
I think this country would have a reasonable shot of surviving if Romney is nominated. It would have a better shot if Fred is nominated. If any of the other front runner is nominated, I'm not sure what else matters.