[NavVet]

Might want to loosen the Tinfoil a little, it is cutting off the circulation to the head. Hunter and Tancredo, though vastly superior to McCain were going exactly nowhere whether or not Thompson ever got in. You're deluding yourself if you think otherwise. Brownback’s position on the war was the same as Joe Biden’s (Wanted to carve up Iraq and opposed the surge) Brownback never polled out of the low single digits. The problem wasn't when Thompson got in, the problem is we let the media select a Dem Lite for our candidate and we got predictably spanked.

[mkjessup]

You say tomato, I say ta-mah-toe.

The fact is, there was a deliberate media bias *against* candidates like Brownback, Hunter, Tancredo, etc., and the media buzz over Thompson worked to keep those conservatives out of the spotlight, and Thompson in it.

Not only did the media choose the GOP candidate, the GOP nudged and winked at the media all the way, by allowing Democrats to cross over in Republican primaries which certainly worked to the disadvantage of ANY conservative candidate, and to the advantage of the pathetic sell-out RINOs, specifically the one who gave it up for 0bama last November 4th.

Primary politics are like NFL football, on any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team, given all the variables and possibilities.

I maintain that it could have turned out much differently.