The_Elucidator
03-12-2007, 08:15 AM
March 12, 2007
GOP Presidential Race Looks Unpredictably Unpredictable
By Stuart Rothenberg (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/author/stuart_rothenberg/)
Each presidential election cycle is unique, but you can count on certain developments every time. There are candidate boomlets, questions about the frontrunners, talk of deadlocked conventions and multiple scenarios of various credibility. Scenarios are a lot like opinions or blogs -- pretty much everybody has one.
But at least I'm usually reasonably comfortable with one scenario that I can ride either all of the way to the conventions or until it becomes clear that I need to modify or even alter my assumptions. Until now, that is.
The Republican race has me totally flummoxed.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/gop_presidential_race_looks_un.html
One observation about this article that has me thinking that the "insiders" are absolutely petrified about Fred Thompson!
HE ISN'T MENTIONED ONCE!!!
This article is dated the 12th so you know darn well he was aware of all the shop talk about his possible running and what it would do to the dynamics of this race!
Folks we have a real winner with ex Sen Thompson and the left is scared they will have the next Reagan on their hands... Let's accommodate them shall we! :D
GOP Presidential Race Looks Unpredictably Unpredictable
By Stuart Rothenberg (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/author/stuart_rothenberg/)
Each presidential election cycle is unique, but you can count on certain developments every time. There are candidate boomlets, questions about the frontrunners, talk of deadlocked conventions and multiple scenarios of various credibility. Scenarios are a lot like opinions or blogs -- pretty much everybody has one.
But at least I'm usually reasonably comfortable with one scenario that I can ride either all of the way to the conventions or until it becomes clear that I need to modify or even alter my assumptions. Until now, that is.
The Republican race has me totally flummoxed.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/gop_presidential_race_looks_un.html
One observation about this article that has me thinking that the "insiders" are absolutely petrified about Fred Thompson!
HE ISN'T MENTIONED ONCE!!!
This article is dated the 12th so you know darn well he was aware of all the shop talk about his possible running and what it would do to the dynamics of this race!
Folks we have a real winner with ex Sen Thompson and the left is scared they will have the next Reagan on their hands... Let's accommodate them shall we! :D