With Pete Wilson’s departure from the presidential race, we thought you would like to know what professional political sage Wfiliam Schneider had to say on the subject of Wilson just days before the California governor’s pullout. “Wilson has always had a special genius for positioning. That’s exactly what he’s doing right now,” he wrote in a Sept. 23 National Journal piece after Wilson’s decision to withdraw from the Iowa caucuses. Schneider’s article was based on conversations with unnamed Wilson aides, and took issue with the prediction made by Lamar Alexander communications director, Mike Murphy, that Wilson would be out by Thanksgiving. “Pete Wilson, ” opined Schneider, “is clearly positioning himself to win if Robert Dole stumbles.”
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