By way of OTB, I see that the Louisiana primary went down about as expected; Ron Paul beat Romney, but both of them lost to Fred Thompson. That a couple of comparatively liberal northeastern pols wouldn’t do well down there among Republicans, doesn’t shock me. Anyone promising to lower the size of government will do well among Republicans there, even crazy ones, as opposed to Romney who has been pitching it’s growth…. What does amaze me is that Fred did so well. And as I said last night, I wonder if he didn’t quit too soon.
And interestingly, Huckabee, showed up not at all. Known quantity?
Another point; The state has it’s political quirks, and should not be a basis for judgement on how a given canidate will do in the general election. Still, this raises the point that all the states in the union are similarly cursed with their own bizzare politics, thus perhaps making a larger argument for state’s rights and local control than anything else that might be contrived.
Addendum: (David L)
Fred’s problem was lack of organization. Lousiana apparently organized itself without any assistance from Fred. Sad to say, Fred simply never wanted to be president. He is with his family and that’s where his heart is. (H/T: National Review?)
You can tell that John McCain didn’t win by the media reaction, or lack thereof same. Every McCain victory is heralded, and every loss ignored. I am going to take a flier and say that McCain had invested heavilly on winning Michigan, open primary, and lost everything by losing. McCain is now going into the closed primary season with little momentum and little cash.
Two facts, one McCain is doing a rash or fund raisers. It is campaign season not fund raising seaon. Two, McCain is trying to find a message to appeal to the conservative base. He doesn’t have one and appears to have been banking on not needing one. Again, he bet the bank on winning Michigan. (H/T: Hugh Hewitt).
If, very big if, Rudy Guiliani can win Florida, he will have both the cash and the momentum.
As to Mitt Romney, I’d rather have an honest moderate, too much in the George W. Bush vein, than a dishonest socialist.
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