Thompson's Strategy: Lose Iowa and New Hampshire

Fred Thompson has a fascinating campaign strategy. He is going to blow off Iowa and New Hampshire. He is banking on South Carolina to pull him through. This is a disasterous strategy. No candidate, in recent history, has received his party's nomination without winning 2 out of 3. He is setting himself up for defeat.

If Thompson is banking on South Carolina then he should spend more time in the state. He has only been there twice since entering the race. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney have campaigned more aggressively and had a head start putting their staff in the state. Thompson laments that he can't campaign more because he has to raise money. If he didn't wait so long to enter he wouldn't have this problem.

This would explain why so many people left the campaign. No serious political consultant would tell Thompson to run a presidential campaign this way. There his also his stance against government intervention of end of life issues that is bound to offend the Christian Right. Thompson is self-destructing.

The bright side for Thompson, if his candidacy fails, is he can land a role in the Curly Sue sequel.