Monday, August 13, 2007

What is it with Republicans and stupidly-unbounded optimism?


For these folks, "reality" really is a dirty word:

Tommy Thompson Drops Out of Presidential Race

He says, "my campaign was completely shocked. We absolutely thought we were coming in second [at the Iowa Straw Poll]. We had no doubt in our minds. The worst we thought we'd come in was third and it didn't happen that way. Something happened between the 50-yard line and the goal line. They pulled a reverse on us and we didn't see it coming." ...

Thompson had 1,039 votes, or about 7 percent.

In other news, GOP officials expressed tremendous confidence in the latest military "surge" in Iraq. "Of course it'll work," said one, "what can possibly go wrong?"

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