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 ...
In the 1960 Presidential Election, John Kennedy “declared” his candidacy in December of 1959 and was elected eleven months later in November of 1960.
These times they are a changin’.
Run, Fred, RUN! :^)
Seems likely to me that all Thompson needs to do is show up in New Hampshire and Iowa and walk away with the nomination. I, personally, will vote for Thompson if he runs. I just hope he picks a VP worthy to follow in his footsteps if something happens to him.
He’s waiting, in vain, for someone to place a crown on his head.
You nailed it in one, FO.
“I just hope he picks a VP worthy to follow in his footsteps if something happens to him.”
Another good actor, who can deliver his lines well?
I had to look that word up [hahaha]....
What is he waiting for? Plenty of time.
I think he’s smart to wait a bit, much like Newt is doing.
I’m already sick of hearing about Hillary, Newt, Rudy.......aka the three stooges.
Waiting seems quite “prudent” to me.
“Hoisted by his own petard”
The word remains in modern usage in the phrase to be hoisted by one’s own petard, which means “to be harmed by one’s own plan to harm someone else” or “to fall in one’s own trap”. Shakespeare coined the now proverbial phrase in Hamlet.
http://www.answers.com/topic/petard
Clinton gave some great speeches — I guess you consider him very effective in fighting the terrorists, right?
It’s still very early in the ‘08 Presidential race, and anything, both good and bad, can and will happen. If Fred Thompson does end up officially running for President in ‘08 and then does become the final GOP choice for the Presidency, then I certainly hope that he also chooses Duncan Hunter to be his Vice President-among many fine possibilities for the V.P. position to choose from. This way, the Democrats will be forced to divest a lot of both time and money in California that they would normally spend somewhere else. Most of the present GOP Presidential candidates could become decent cabinet members in a Fred Thompson administration.
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LOL!
I think I like it. :)
Always A1 rational : )
“A Thompson/ Hunter or Hunter/ Thompson ticket would wipe the floor with the libs.”
You have big fat brains.
DON’T FEED THE TROLL...
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