BobKrumm.com » Who’s stalking whom?
Fred went light on John McCain because he needs McCain to win Michigan. If either of the others win there, South Carolina is a three-way contest and Fred loses and has to drop out of the race. Of the threee candidates contesting him in the Palmetto State, McCain was the only one Fred couldn’t eliminate, so Fred left him alive to deliver a death blow to Romney in Michigan while Fred concentrated on killing Huckabee himself.
In addition to being a masterful oratorical performance by Fred, last night’s debate was that three-dimensional game of chess that Romney was talking about. I think Fred Thompson accomplished what he intended to do in last night’s debate. Now we have to wait and see if his plan worked.
On the Dem side, the race is a flat-out slugging match between two bruisers. On the GOP side, it’s become a chess game. Read the whole thing. (via Instapundit).
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I did read the whole thing, and I have an alternate possibility. Fred’s an old-fashioned southern gentleman, and he and McCain go way back. It may just be reluctance of Fred to go after someone with whom he has a personal relationship.
Occam’s Razor makes that explanation more likely to me than the complex “chess match” scenario that Bob Krumm described.
Slightly off-topic, but the answer may be revealing:
After seeing Drudge’s hed:
Do Huckabee’s religious convictions give you any assurance that he’d be willing to tussle with Iran?
wch - no more than Bush’s.
Billy - Occam’s Razor only applies to real science, not ’social’ or ‘political’ science.
I challenge that interpretation. I’ve always considered it to apply to theories or explanations in general. The definition at dictionary.com says:
“the maxim that assumptions introduced to explain a thing must not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
Nothing there about science.
I challenge it because in social and political science, you deal with the motivations of people. If there’s one thing that people everywhere are good at, it’s hiding their true intentions behind a plausible facade.
The Golden Mean works much better for such things.