Gettin’ all the skeletons out of the closet. Look for an announcement soon!
My response - if he’s healthy, his doctors say he’s healthy - and he wants to run, run!
ping
I’m hoping he addresses the issue of abortion, because there are many conflicting reports on his position(s) on the web.
Look at that .. to upstage Elizabeth, ol’ Fred went and caught cancer. /tu
Fred Thompson PING
I don’t have the ping list so I thought I would send this to you.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8OEG4CG5&show_article=1
I hope he runs. He makes sense.
Not to be morbid, but this is why we have a VP. In case the worst happens, God forbid, we have a VP, hand picked by Fred Thompson, to step up.
The more I read about this story, the more I think he’s running. He’s announced his illness and is getting out to the media/blogs to further explain it. IMO if he were to definitively take himself out of the running as a result of this, today would have been the best time; the fact that he didn’t is a pretty clear sign to me anyway.
That said, I wish Fred nothing but the best of health, and I’m still with him if and when he jumps into the race.
Hannity just announced Fred will be on his radio program today.
Fred is toast. The last thing we need to give the Clintons is more ammo for their DBM friends to use against our candidate. How many “medical experts” do you think they already have on speed dial who will come on and talk aobut how debilitating Lymphoma can be. There will be a least one Hallmark, Lifetime, WE movie about dying from Lymphoma, Oprah will bring on the spouses of people who died from the disease and CBS, NBC and ABC will all write cancer storylines into some of their hour long drama.
I was looking forward to seeing what Fred could bring to the discussion, but he is not a viable candidate at this time, sorry.
I just know they timed this news conference to pre-empt Fred’s appearance. It’s a conspiracy, I tell you!!
Is Thompson going to be on after all this Duke stuff?
There isn't any "good" NHL. It is only bad or worse. If he was diagnosed "a few years ago", the clock started ticking that much sooner. In remission now, but it will be back, and that while he would be President. Other candidates have had prostate cancer, but prostate cancer is much more indolent than NHL. Should Thompson get the nomination, it would be a major problem in getting him elected. The MSM would be hanging black crepe all about his campaign, characterizing him as a dead man walking.
Don’t bother insulting me, I write what I believe.
I’m watching the interview. It adds to my belief - for not just the health reasons- that Fred Thompson will not be elected President in 2008.
I watched another interview this week. Barak Obama with David Letterman. For the first time I felt the very uneasy belief- and downright scary- that he could be elected President in 2008.
CAVUTO:
“YOU’RE DOING WELL IN THE POLLS, UP TO 2ND WITHOUT EVEN ANNOUNCING.”
FDT:
“I CAN’T AFFORD TO ANNOUNCE..I’M DOING TOO WELL!” (JOKING)
“THE MONEY WILL BE THERE.”
I went trying to email a message to Fred at www.fred08.com but it is jammed!
I expect untold numbers of people are trying to access that website in support of him and urging him to run despite the illness.