Posted on 04/04/2007 8:04:09 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Amyone really watching the development of politics in America today must see that Fred Thompson is really President-Elect Fred Thompson. I say that as someone who thinks Rudy Giuliani would make a great wartime president and who would also do many of the good things for America that he was able to do for New York.
The reality, however, is that even the shadow candidacy of Thompson is casting a huge shadow indeed. The online Sean Hannity poll showed Thompson getting, as an unannounced candidate, more votes that all other Republican candidates combined. Fred Thompson, as an unannounced candidate, is winning every straw poll in the South. Fred Thompson, who will soon be visiting with Republican members of Congress to discuss his possible candidacy, has been overwhelmed by senators and congressman who want to talk with him (probably because he is the best chance Republicans have of re-taking Congress.)
Will he win the general election? Fred Thompson is likeable, persuasive and savvy man. Thompson is a conservative on every major issue of the day. Democrats will nominate a Leftist, not a centrist, as their nominee. When is the last time a Leftist defeated a conservative in a presidential election? Try 1916, when Woodrow Wilson – using the Ku Klux Klan Leftist South eked by Charles Evans Hughes. That was not just the last time but the only time.
Why? The Battleground Poll, the most respected of all the polls, has consistently for many years shown that sixty percent of Americans consider themselves as “conservative” while only thirty-five percent of Americans consider themselves as “liberals” (those poll have the option of calling themselves a “moderate” or “don’t know” and choose “conservative” or “liberal” instead.)
...President Bush, at his best does not approach Fred Thompson at his worst as a communicator...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbyus.com ...
fred is a serious contender, but he needs to get organized pronto
what exactly is he waiting for?
The author is so clueless about fighting the War on Terror, it’s actually painful.
He seems to think that it’s ONLY about giving good-sounding speeches.
Pathetic.
“It is certain that Fred Thompson will be elected president in 2008. It is just as certain that sometime in the next few years America will be the subject of another horrific terrorist attack. Which raises the question of how President-Elect Thompson will serve the nation when that happens. President Bush showed courage after September 11. He gave some of the best speeches of his presidency. But despite my respect for this very good man, President Bush, at his best does not approach Fred Thompson at his worst as a communicator. “
Actually this is the WORST INDICTMENT of Fred Thompson, acknowledging that ALL HE CAN DO IS MAKE SPEECHES — if someone writes it out for him.
He’s got my vote already!
He hasn't even announced. But let him get close to the White House, and you can bet Team Hillary will pull out the big guns.
How many dead lefties did Battleground poll?
FRed ping.
Law & Order season will be over at the end of the month.
Fred Thompson is acceptable.
The above makes no sense as written. If the prose was meant to suggest that moderates were forced to use the word liberal or conservative to describe themselves, and nothing else, since the word "liberal" has bad odor (some mix it up with libertine), maybe the numbers are correct. But they are meaningless. Self described moderates are about as large a cohort as conservatives, each maybe with a bit more of a third of the vote, with liberals around 25%, and the rest unsure.
bwahahahaha
“The survey, by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, found a “dramatic shift” in political party identification since 2002, when Republicans and Democrats were at rough parity. Now, 50% of those surveyed identified with or leaned toward Democrats, whereas 35% aligned with Republicans.”
You don’t win elections with 35% of the people voting for you.
My grandfather admired Charles Evans Hughes. I have an autograph of his as Chief Justice of Supreme Court. Gramps was a rock ribbed Republican.
The second statement is true. The first is not.
I wish I thought moderate Dems would vote for Fred but I really do not think so.
“fred is a serious contender, but he needs to get organized pronto
what exactly is he waiting for?”
He is waiting because of campaign laws about equal air time.
Besides that Fred Thompson is not getting in late. Every one else has jumped the gun big time. It’s what? Nine, ten months until the first primaries start?
That was quite motivating. I think the rudy-bots have got something serious to worry about. A Thompson/ Hunter or Hunter/ Thompson ticket would wipe the floor with the libs.
Oh yeah, that pew poll is not slanted.You’re killing me.
Enduring Freedom wrote: “what exactly is he waiting for?”
As he watches Rudy McRomney shooting themselves in the feet, he’s probably waiting for them to run out of ammo.
The Rodham-rodent’s stealthy minions are already trashing Sen. Thompson at FR. They slither around under the guise of rudybots, but you can recognize them by the venom in their posts. The clintons already know how to destroy Rudy, so they can slither around undetected fomenting as much anger and spittle between conservatives as they choose.
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