He insisted over the past couple of days that he was staying in the race for the long term, and then called a new conference to announce he was dropping out.
I was a little surprised that he used CPAC as his venue (okay, it wasn't really a news conference, it was a scheduled speech): perhaps he thinks that in four years this will make a good jumping off point for his campaign against President Oba/nton.
I thought that his ultra-honourable reason for dropping out --- so as not to split the party and thereby allow the Democrats to win the election --- seemed disingenuous at best. I suspect that there were some discussions between him and his family about how best to spend the rest of his fortune: on them, or on a losing race for President....
Still, it can't be easy to be a presidential candidate, especially one who has been taken seriously by the media, and have to choose to drop out. So, although I have no sympathy for most of his this-year-expressed views (as opposed to his views of a few years back when he was running in Massachusetts) I'm signing off as
Yours, with a smidge of sympathy for the individual,
N.
I'm with you N. Waffling as he did, changing his views so blatantly, he did himself no favours.
ReplyDeleteI was a bit surprised today....
ps. did you see the feud episodes of Conan, Stewart and Colbert over the "making" of Huckabee? It was on the other night....hilarious.