He’s turning a corner!
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JP, we Vanderbilt fans own that phrase.
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I’m a big fan of good marketing, and whatever else you say about Thompson, he knows how to hype and manipulate the media. From a “watching the magician from backstage” point of view, it’s a thing of beauty.

From a “watching the magician from backstage” point of view, it’s a thing of beauty.

Yeah, he makes Karl Rove look like a piker.

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If he campaigns like he served in office, I doubt he’ll win a single state. He isn’t known as a tireless worker. He is about to undergo way more scrutiny than he ever has before. Giuliani will crush him.

We’ll see. He inherits the base, and there’s a huge power in that. The more liberal Republicans always do somewhat better in Iowa, NH will always annoint an off-the-wall candidate because the people there love beig in the national headlines, but South Carolina is where the real Republican primary starts. That’s why George Bush became president and not ohn McCain.
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Social moderates have a hard time surviving South Carolina.
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Because no one up till now had a hold on the base, by just showing up Fred is amongst the frontrunners.
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Now Rudy has to convince the evangelicals he’s one of them, and that’s going to be hard because everybody knows he’s not. It’s Rudy who is now in trouble, by default.

…whatever else you say about Thompson, he knows how to hype and manipulate the media.

You mean that he has a network of associates that know how to hype and manipulate the media.

Like his wife, Jeri, who works at Verner Liipfert.

Or Mary Matalin, who’s on his campaign.

I wouldn’t give Fraud much of the credit here.