Maybe Fred Should Have Stayed In?
Posted on January 23, 2008
Let me rub salt in my own wounds by posting this. Did Fred miss winning all 47 of Louisiana’s delegates by hours?
Louisiana’s social conservatives created the winning “Pro-life, Pro-family” slate in early January largely because we didn’t know if Fred was still going to be a candidate at the time of our caucuses (turns out that he wasn’t, by a few hours). Because we had almost all the state’s social conservative leaders for Fred, we were also able to stave off Huckabee by use of this “pro-life, pro-family” slate. I was really pleased with the win last night, as it’s not easy to beat McCain, Romney, and Paul without a candidate, but that’s what we did.
About 90 percent of the pro-family slate was actually Thompson supporters. If Fred were to jump back into the race, he would almost certainly pick up all 47 of Louisiana’s delegates (the whole point of LA’s complicated system was to have an early vote while still not losing half our delegates like all the other early states have). That would put him AHEAD of McCain in the delegate count and only narrowly trailing Romney.
This was a strategy I mentioned when I suggested he stay in before. He would have picked up a lot of southern states. Oh well, too late now. The question is only acedemic now. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
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Jay,
We’re all sorry about Fred. But man, we gotta move on!
I just found it interesting Gordon. It isn’t about moving on for me that I posted this though, it’s about me being proven right.
Honey, that is a salt/alcohol/hot sauce paste rubbed into the wound!!
Jay, you should keep in mind that Thompson probably knew he was strong in LA and still determined that it wasn’t going to be enough.
What do you think of Hunter backing Huckabee. His reasons for being opposed to Romney is that the later’s company allied with a Chinese company to aid Saddam in his air defense against our planes. He probably opposes McCaine on Amnesty for Illegals.
Jay, I’m kidding. You were right. I’m reading that Fred’s organization might have been less than ready for the fight.
My wife suggests that his mother being ill probably weighed heavy on his decision as well.