Why delight critics, and irritate supporters, with a bout of stonewalling that's hardly worth the fight?
His critics say that by persecuting the Muslim Brotherhood he is providing Isis supporters with a new constituency.
It's easy to fill a stadium full of excited supporters with a rallying cry that suggests things will get better.
There was one Republican among them — she likes Giuliani, based on September 11th — and most of the rest were Obama supporters, with a few misgivings about his readiness.
In the cartoon, Uribe was depicted as being forcibly led away from the scene by several supporters, with a caption reading, "Enough, leave him, he's dead".
Last summer, several polls were showing the state fairly evenly split between Bush and Kerry supporters, with a substantial block undecided.
Utterly terrified of the backlash from their local supporters with a dull fear in their stomachs that the Kippers will snatch their seats.
Leading Democrats were trying to match the power of the bully pulpit by energizing their core supporters with a sharp economic message and an intensive ground operation.
I'm staying on a match day (when only home supporters with a match ticket are allowed in), and the place is bubbling with energy.
If it were my charity, I'm not sure I'd want people targeting potential celebrity supporters with a "guilt laden" Twitter campaign that appears to be officially endorsed.
Last Friday, speaking at his Fianna Fáil annual conference in Killarney, prime minister Bertie Ahern electrified party supporters with a surprise announcement.
