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...
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Only the smart ones..
All you have for Rudy is his appearing “in control” on TV when in reality he was running around in a panic because of his prior foolish decision to locate the emergency command center in the target!
That’s it! He was on TV and didn’t cry. That’s ALL you have!
Weak. Really weak.
Reagan had lots of leadership positions, not the least of which was being a two term governor of CA. He had a leadership, executive record.
Thompson has NONE.
I consider it an insult to compare FT to Reagan. Conservatives should know better and be able to tell the difference between a true gem and someone who has nothing to offer except strut around and look presidential — oh, yes, he also has a folksy manner, but didn’t have a single solitary leadership position in his entire life, and he is 64.
It’s a far greater insult to compare someone like Guiliani to Reagan.
He's Reagan all over again.
The knock on Reagan was that he was a mere actor and a good communicator. No substance. An "amiable dunce".
The only difference that I see is that Thompson was a Senator first and Reagan was a governor first.
Other than that they're cut from the same cloth. Thompson will be the next President of the United States. There's no doubt in my mind.
No, they will in in FEAR of Fred himself.
Fred Thompson is a folksy old guy, who can’t even make up his mind whether to run.......
OK, so, he is just a “folksy guy” who has casted a GIGANTIC shadow upon the entire Presidental race WITHOUT even announcing. This is NOT a man who will need to raise millions and millions on top of millions of dollars to win. He is already proving that WITHOUT announcing. I can just imagine your heads spinning off when he actually DOES announce, which he will. Then you can kiss Rudy and the rest (except Hunter) bye bye.
She will accuse him of being the President of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!!!
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