Monday, December 17, 2007

Mitt Helping Fred?

This is all going into the scenarios for a Fred victory for the Republican nomination. Blogs for Fred Thompson is talking about the new Mitt ad critiquing Huck's record on crime, including pardons and drug policy.

The BFFT article muses that even if the ad helps Mitt rather than Fred, it ultimately helps Fred by damaging the Huck campaign. Huck's campaign hurts Fred far more than Mitt's does right now. To continue, BFFT wants Fred to win, but a Mitt in first and Fred in second certainly would go a long way to derailing the Huck campaign. If McCain could beat Mitt in New Hampshire, it would doom Mitt as well. So BFFT has the scenario of:

Iowa:
1. Mitt
2. Fred
3. Huck

New Hampshire
1. McCain
2. Mitt

taking out both Huck and Mitt. They may be right. I think the better route would be a Fred - Mitt - Huck finish in Iowa, which would take both Huck and Mitt out in one shot.

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