LOL. Perfect.
What is this “stalking horse” thing anyway? It is positively ridiculous. Like Fred Thompson is going to give up a very nice paycheck from Law & Order and ABC Radio, drag his family all over the place, keep the conservatives for voting for any of the “real” candidates (as this theory suggests he was not a real candidate) just so his friend, John McCain ends up the nominee. Is this how it goes? That is why he decided to run? You mean the tens of thousands of signatures in the Draft Fred movement and his colleagues on Capitol Hill begging him to run had nothing to do with it?
Were we in on it?— Because I don’t remember that memo when I signed the original petition for him to run.
Who thinks up this tripe anyway?
Most of the time candidates become stalking horses for another candidate after they realize they can’t win for themselves. They usually start out trying to win. That’s what happened with Thompson, I believe.
When you have a group of people who choose a candidate because they are, by their own admission many times, “smitten” with them, don’t expect great political insight. Indeed expect a disaster.