Not here in Illinois. It would be meaningless. I'm going for Romney today. But if Fred does well in Tennessee I'll reconsider him. But I have to say, I am disappointed in the way he ran his campaign, and will have to think long and hard before I change back. Once burned, and all that. He's right on the issues, but wrong on tactics.
I won’t vote for McCain (if I’m going to vote for a lib, I’ll vote Democrat). I won’t vote for Hillary or Obama.
I fully intend to write Fred’s name in.
Don’t lecture me about the lost vote, folks. The more we compromise, the more we lose our soul. It’s time to get back to conservatism, and you don’t do that by voting more and more to the left.
We have no way of knowing how he ran his campaign once he got in. We have no access to the raw schedule; all we have is press reports of it. I won’t vote for him today because Romney is the only vote to allow a brokered convention, but consider; Fred had committed to help Paul Harvey, who was ill, and had appeared in all those first-run L&O episodes which could not run if he declared.
I personally think the campaign is obscenely long and would rather see it compressed back to the year before election day.
I don’t blame FRed.
He was fighting with moles in his campaign, who were holding a grudge over the departure of the Fox guy who joined the campaign. Every time he started getting ahead, they floated another vicious rumor.
He couldn’t root them out. He was going to have to fire a good portion of his staff, and he knew he couldn’t continue if that happened, due to bad press and lack of staff.
I think that's a wise decision. Fred did somehow bungle his campaign...I loved his position papers, his refusal to play stupid games, but unfortunately he didn't seem to like to campaign - not that I blame him. I remember the saying that by the time a man gets elected to be President he no longer deserves to be President. I think Fred just didn't want to sell his soul.