Posted on 09/05/2007 1:51:09 PM PDT by dvan
Fred Thompson’s forthcoming announcement that he will seek the Republican nomination for President will push pollsters and conservative kingmakers to increase their scrutiny of the former Tennessee senator.
As an unofficial candidate Thompson dominated polls throughout the summer season of presidential campaigning. A September 5 Rasmussen poll found Thompson polling 23% among likely Republican primary voters. Thompson was only a point behind Republican front-runner Rudy Giuliani.
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A Increase
B Decrease
C Stay the same
D Ron Paul
And Fred ain't even trying yet.
If Fred and Duncan could find a way to team up this thing would be in the bag.
I’ll bet you they will do all of that depending on the poll...
That’s choice Q
You know, I think your prediction has a fair chance of being right. LOL
Not going to go about spamming the board, this will be my third and last statement on this in Thompson threads.
For the attention of supporters and critics of Thompson alike. His campaign has issued an invitation to a few blogs to submit 4-5 questions each from their readers to be answered by Thompson. Among a few of the blogs given the invitation are RedState, Captain’s Quarters, RightWingnews.com and Instapundit.
ANY question or concern you’ve had about Thompson? This is your chance to go right to the source.
My preference is that his strongest critics will receive the bulk of questions answered, but that is only a possibility if you submit a question to these blogs. I’m leaning toward supporting Thompson, but the harder the questions the better in my view.
“And Fred ain’t even trying yet.”
He’s been trying for months. Where ya been?
Eric is also a FReeper.
I think you would be surprised who all are Freepers.
I was surprised he was editor of Redstate. I’ve never even looked there.
3-2-1
She doesn't get paid for this, does she?
Just say NO TO POLLS
Hey some of my best friends are Polish!
Oh you mean polls not pols...
There are some candidates I won’t trash, Romney, Hunter, (and of course Thompson.) We shouldn’t split up and attack the Conservatives in the race when there are so many RINOs and Nutters to hunt...
Giuliani and Romney are also anti-gun (Rudy more so, but Romney signed a bunch of anti-gun stuff). Oh, and Rudy is pro-gay marriage. This stuff may sell among Northeastern RINOs (you know, the people who move out of the cities that their favored politicians destroyed with high taxes and gun control, and into the suburbs for an instant replay --- but since they live "in the country" they feel that they have to register Republican), but it doesn't sell in the South or West.
Thompson has come out strong on guns, abortion, low taxes, shrinking the government, strong on defense and foreign policy - you can't ask for much more than that. Though I prefer Duncan Hunter on purely theoretical grounds, Hunter has very little name recognition and cannot, IMHO, win the nomination or the General Election. If Hunter leaves in a few weeks or months, most of his voters will go to Fred, again IMHO. Hunter will then make a superb Secretary of Defense in the Thompson Administration (to be joined by Tancredo as head of ICE, Ted Olson as Attorney General and John Bolton as Secretary of State if I had my druthers).
C'mon, man, she had to do a lot of research for that, really get down in the dirt and scratch it out...starting with removing her head from her alimentary canal.
I would tend to agree that the 11th Commandment must be observed, or we'll get our clocks cleaned next November. That won't stop me from pointing out that Romney is no friend of gun owners, but that is my considered and reasonable opinion (i.e. not a trashing) of him given his voting record. The Republican Party - from the guys running down to us lowly citizens - should debate the issues like adults, in quiet and measured tones and words.
Let's understand, as Reagan did, that whatever differences there may be between Republicans, they pale in comparison to the radical policies of the Dems. We simply CANNOT afford to let the Hildabeast name the next 2 or 3 Supreme Court Justices or make our foreign and defense policy - THAT would be a disaster as bad as the Civil War.
Oh, and mea culpa and apologies to all for any intemperate remarks that I may have made on any other threads over time - I'll do my best to abide by the 11th Commandment.
Y’all don’t go trashing Amanda, she is a regular voice of our side and a good Freeper too..
I can’t argue with that, oh, and I don’t consider debating votes as trashing.. albeit, supporters of candidates on the butt end of that may disagree..
Sorry, I didn't know that. Still, the statement WAS significantly inside Master of the Obvious territory. Oh, well, we all do stuff like that every once in a while.
I’ll give her credit where credit’s due, and I’d rather have inside the FR tent pissing out than on the outside pissing in.
It’s one of those comments that is obvious to us, but is something that needs to be said for the uninformed masses out there so, as they read ‘trashing’ articles, they know to question the motives of the trasher.
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