Comments on: Thompson Campaign Collapsing Before it Starts? http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/thompson_campaign_collapsing_before_it_starts/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:06:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Eric J http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/thompson_campaign_collapsing_before_it_starts/comment-page-1/#comment-140628 Eric J Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:43:11 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/08/thompson_campaign_collapsing_before_it_starts/#comment-140628 What articles like this (and much of the Blogosphere) tend to miss is that, if I may torture a metaphor a bit, we haven't even started the preseason yet. The campaigns - all the campaigns, not just Thompson's - are in training camp, but most of them are acting like it's the playoffs. Outside of political junkies and reporters, NO-ONE CARES. Will even the primary voters in New Hampshire remember that Thompson spent the summer of '07 shuffling his staff and giving obfuscatory answers about his lobbying? Only if his new staff is so incompetent that he's still being defined by it in January. (Who are the new assistant coaches on the Redskins' staff this year?) I like Thompson, and I want him to do well, but I think the same goes for all of the campaigns. All-in-all, I think Hillary's doing the best job of only showing her Vanilla offense (though I doubt Romney <strong>has</strong> anything but a vanilla offense.) I also think she's likely to hold her fire as much as possible against Obama, because she ultimatel wants him as her V.P. Of course Redskins fans have seen that sometimes a lousy preseason shows you exactly what the team will be like when it counts. What articles like this (and much of the Blogosphere) tend to miss is that, if I may torture a metaphor a bit, we haven't even started the preseason yet. The campaigns - all the campaigns, not just Thompson's - are in training camp, but most of them are acting like it's the playoffs. Outside of political junkies and reporters, NO-ONE CARES. Will even the primary voters in New Hampshire remember that Thompson spent the summer of '07 shuffling his staff and giving obfuscatory answers about his lobbying? Only if his new staff is so incompetent that he's still being defined by it in January. (Who are the new assistant coaches on the Redskins' staff this year?)

I like Thompson, and I want him to do well, but I think the same goes for all of the campaigns. All-in-all, I think Hillary's doing the best job of only showing her Vanilla offense (though I doubt Romney has anything but a vanilla offense.) I also think she's likely to hold her fire as much as possible against Obama, because she ultimatel wants him as her V.P.

Of course Redskins fans have seen that sometimes a lousy preseason shows you exactly what the team will be like when it counts.

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