Thompson has been the real frontrunner in this race for months, after the first debate I started hearing conservatives in the know speak of them as the "VP debates".
They've scripted every word he's said, every position has been calculated to capture as many primary votes as possible.The really sad part is he's a really weak candidate with no hope of winning a general election, he's managed to hide it by not actually announcing and thereby keeping complete control of his message, that will change.
Our great hope is that TPTB in the GOP realize that a status quo GOP ticket will get annihilated in the general, before the primaries. I think they will, sometime in Oct.
My great fear is that too many of those same people would actually prefer Clinton to Paul, that's how lost the neoconservatives are, and unfortunately they've taken a large slice of the base with them, step by step, over the edge of the cliff.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, this primary race only has two real contenders. We're behind, but we have the right man, the right message, and the just plain RIGHT on our side.
Thompson is weak, he's weak on life, he's weak on immigration, he's weak on guns, he's vulnerable from the right. He's weak on honesty because he pretends none of that is true, and he's very very vulnerable from the middle and the left because he's basically running for Bush's third term, and NOBODY WANTS THAT.
Let the other candidates support flow to Paul and Thompson, and don't get discouraged when Thompson gets most of it over the next few months. Keep the campaign viable and when the time comes for Paul and Thompson to go head to head Paul will mop the floor with him.
Or so it goes in my dreams.
