I don’t get all this whining and moaning! Spencer Abraham isn’t Secretary of State. He’s simply running this part of Fred’s campaign. He’s someone with connections and Fred needs as many of those as he can get before he gets ready to announce.The "whining and complaining" probably starts with the Paulites amongst us, who are always looking for some pretext to scream out a chicken-little warning about Fred. Then there are the Fred "supporters", those who don't know much about the candidate and have their own preconceived ideas of what Fred should do -- today, tomorrow and yesterday -- to satisfied their stock notions. And when those people hear the latest Paulite-inspired hysterical raving, some of them get infected by it.
That's pretty much what's going on here, in my opinion.
There are also Fre supporters who are buying into the general idea that Fred is waiting too long, and this is mainly based on their own impatience to have him formally announce.
I have some of this impatience as well and I would rather have him enter the race soon. But I also understand two things:
1. It is a major thing to set up a campaign and since Fred is already a strong #2 he must be sure to enter ready to puch through to the primaries without a lot of stumbling and time to reflect.
2. The general population is not paying attention yet, and sill not get engaged until after summer is over, probably around Labor Day at the earliest. So, even though us hardcore political junkies are impatient the general public is oblivious.
There is plenty of time left and it is more important to get it right than to get it done tomorrow.
This is interesting:
Newt Gingrich has said he won’t make up his mind whether to seek the Republican presidential nomination until after the summer, but there are signs he is warming up to Fred Thompson as his preferred GOP candidate.
“I’ve always said it was unlikely I would run,” and if Thomson runs “and does well, then I think that makes it easier for me not to run,” he said in an interview with the Associated Press last week.
But on the same day as the interview, the former Speaker of the House’s communications director Rich Galen said he had signed on as an advisor to Thompson’s not yet official campaign.
In another possibly telling sign, Gingrich and his wife had dinner with Thompson and his wife at Thompson’s home in Virginia on July 16, according to The Politico.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/7/26/125706.shtml?s=ic