re: #741 Iron Fist

The problem with Fred is that he didn’t want power. He’d have taken the nomination if he’d won, and he’d have done at least as much as McCain did to win, but he didn’t want it with the single-minded obsessiveness to actually win. I suspect that he was relieved when he didn’t get the nomination.

He came in late. Not late by normal standards, but late to this past crazy election cycle. Perhaps if he had come in earlier, things would have been different. By the time he threw his hat in the ring, McCain had already been tagged as ‘it’. Fred will have his place in our party history, I don’t think we’ve heard the last of him.