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Is Fred Thompson In?
Virginia Virtucon ^ | 3/22/2007 | Riley, Not O'Reilly

Posted on 03/22/2007 7:50:40 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT

Is Fred Thompson In?

That’s what I heard tonight from a Blue Dog Democrat Congressman who has close ties to some TN GOP members (and who even donated to Thompson’s senate races back in the ’90s.)


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To: NeoCaveman
also pro-life and pro-right to keep and bare arms.

Not only does he favor the right to bare arms, he also favors the right to bear arms, which excites me more than bare arms. :^)

41 posted on 03/22/2007 9:47:10 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (When you're flat on your back, everything is looking up.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Hmmm, there once was this actor named Ronald Reagan -- just maybe Fred has it in him too!


42 posted on 03/22/2007 9:47:33 PM PDT by RAY (God Bless the USA!)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore); EternalVigilance

Agreed and Thompson will run right over Rudy in the primaries.


43 posted on 03/22/2007 9:48:04 PM PDT by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: skeptoid
Why should I not wish he goes away?

Mitt? Is that you?

44 posted on 03/22/2007 9:48:55 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: RAY

Fred polled at 6% in a Q-poll in Ohio - which is rather impressive considering that it's the first "real" poll he's been in.

Give him three weeks and he'll be polling in third place. Once McCain drops out, Fred's neck and neck with Julie-Annie...and there ya have it.


45 posted on 03/22/2007 9:57:54 PM PDT by RockinRight (Chuck Norris wears Jack Bauer pajamas. Jack Bauer wears Fred Thompson pajamas.)
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To: RAY

I have to see if I can find it, but I saw a poll from about a week ago showing that Fred's positives are in the mid 60s. And negatives under 15%. Pretty impressive. Those are Reaganesque numbers.


46 posted on 03/22/2007 10:18:06 PM PDT by RockinRight (Chuck Norris wears Jack Bauer pajamas. Jack Bauer wears Fred Thompson pajamas.)
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To: PAR35

Darling, ...can you stay tonight? .... ?


47 posted on 03/22/2007 10:41:17 PM PDT by skeptoid (AE, AA , MBS)
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To: EternalVigilance

Let Hunter be Dep. Defense Sec. I want Rummy back! Sigh.


48 posted on 03/22/2007 10:48:09 PM PDT by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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To: skeptoid

Here's what Thompson's got: he can potentially unite the currently warring (but overlapping):
-small government, small-l fiscal conservatives (because Thompson has a strong record of limiting government, defending RKBA and giving power back to the states)
-social conservatives (because Thompson has a strong record on pro-life issues and others)
-national security conservatives (because he has a strong pro-national-defense record)

I think the only other candidate who even has a chance at uniting these factions is Romney (and lots of people disagree with me on that).


49 posted on 03/22/2007 10:53:49 PM PDT by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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To: RepublicanPOTUSin08

I've been watching for that, but I don't have any information.


50 posted on 03/22/2007 11:19:13 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

"Probably a few days before Fred jumps in. He's gotta know by now that he can't win the nomination, and the RNC is probably starting to lean on him to get out. So he'll call a press conference, site "health reasons" and bow out gracefully.

My guess: it'll happen soon, because Rudy and Romney are sucking up all the big money, and I read last week that he's struggling to raise cash. Once Fred jumps in, you can also stick a fork in Romney. Conservatives who are lukewarm to him(like me) will jump on the Fred Thompson wagon, and the money will dry up. It'll come down to Fred and Rudy."


^^^^^^^That's what I'm hoping for.


51 posted on 03/22/2007 11:22:15 PM PDT by Rick_Michael (Thompson/Newt ----Credibilty and Intelligience (Or perhaps Fred Thompson/Tommy Thompson))
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I will fund raise my "ass off" for Fred Thompson when he throws his hat in the arena.

BBQ's every weekend on the beach with "authentic" (old School) Texas BBQ.
Hat's/optional.

God Bless America

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52 posted on 03/22/2007 11:38:28 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

He made some general comments about that in an interview with the WSJ's John Fund
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009798


53 posted on 03/22/2007 11:40:01 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: RepublicanPOTUSin08

There are currently 37 members of the Bue Dog Coalition (http://www.bluedogdems.com/what.html)


54 posted on 03/22/2007 11:52:51 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: ABG(anybody but Gore)

J. C. Watts?


55 posted on 03/22/2007 11:59:00 PM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I think in the end it will all depend on how his wife feels about it. You find it in the policy book under the "If Mama ain't happy" rule.
So... What do you think are the chances that a relatively young woman who is a former political media consultant, would want her husband to run for President?

:)


56 posted on 03/23/2007 4:30:17 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: Finny

The personal stuff matters. His wife needs to sit down with an interviewer and reel 'em in.
That shouldn't be too difficult, given her background.


57 posted on 03/23/2007 4:34:18 AM PDT by Graymatter
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To: gpapa
J. C. Watts?

YES!!

58 posted on 03/23/2007 4:47:51 AM PDT by Fairview ( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
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To: EternalVigilance; Fairview
They may be right.

I certainly hope so

.

59 posted on 03/23/2007 4:53:59 AM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: skeptoid
I've caught 3 of his Paul Harvey broadcasts this week. I really don't like the sound of his voice, his manner of speech, his dialect, or anything else I hear on his Paul Harvey radio gig.
What has this guy got?
What does he stand for?
Why should I not wish he goes away?


I've listened to him as well, and his voice, manner of speech, his dialect, and everything else that I hear on his Paul Harvey radio gig sound great, and give me great confidence in his abilities. I particularly enjoyed his take on global warming!
60 posted on 03/23/2007 4:56:48 AM PDT by deaconjim (Because He lives...)
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