The Attack of the Zombie Nominee: bring Fred back from the dead?
I learned a few days ago that Evangeline Plum Hemingway's mom, Lutheran journalist M.Z. Hemingway, has given this outcome for the Republican presidential race at least some whimsical thought.
I think it unlikely that, having failed to make much of a dent in the primaries, Fred Thompson will have the party breaking down his door to be a compromise candidate in the event of a brokered convention- an eventuality I am apparently in the minority for seeing as less and less likely, if John McCain continues to do as well as he's doing in places like California and New York, for example.
Still, it's easy to see a scenario in which a Reagan coalition on the verge of collapse could go in search of a unifier. A candidate who had already failed in the primaries would probably be badly wounded by that fact in November. Otherwise, Fred would do.
Any other ideas, people- somebody, perhaps, who could keep the coalition together and maybe even have a run at winning, but who hasn't taken the plunge so far?
I think it unlikely that, having failed to make much of a dent in the primaries, Fred Thompson will have the party breaking down his door to be a compromise candidate in the event of a brokered convention- an eventuality I am apparently in the minority for seeing as less and less likely, if John McCain continues to do as well as he's doing in places like California and New York, for example.
Still, it's easy to see a scenario in which a Reagan coalition on the verge of collapse could go in search of a unifier. A candidate who had already failed in the primaries would probably be badly wounded by that fact in November. Otherwise, Fred would do.
Any other ideas, people- somebody, perhaps, who could keep the coalition together and maybe even have a run at winning, but who hasn't taken the plunge so far?
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