Crack – I am guessing that most things need to be explained to you very very slowly.
Fred was the only one of the candidates who convinced me that he actually knew what he was talking about. Further, he was the only one I think who knew which fights were the important ones, and who had the presence and the delivery to be convincing to a broader-than-usual audience. Clearly, his organization was insufficient for the campaign, and the arguments spelled out above about having missed the boat on some important political allies rings true for me. However, one would hope that when conservatives see a guy of this quality step up, they would come to support him, prior promises be damned.
His dropping out is a missed opportunity, one for which we may pay dearly. Rudy is probably the next best choice, but he doesn’t have Fred’s intellect or his rhetorical skill.
