[2ndDivisionVet]

Fred must be scaring the pants off the RINOs, dems, MSM and fellow travellers, based on all the coverage I'm seeing. I think we are witnessing that rarest of things: a real draft movement in presidential politics.

[Darkwolf377]

I agree with your points, but have to say this article is another symptom of something that's been growing around here--the need for EVERYONE to feel like they're a victim.

Southern prejudice? Lord, gimme a break.

[trumandogz]

The only Southerners to hold the office of the presidency over the last 40 years have been.

Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush

[Does so]

Is it "drawl" or "twang" that isn't liked? I personally don't like G.W. Bush's, "and, ummm". The twang doesn't help.

Tony Blair should have done all of G.W. Bush's talkin'.

[beckysueb]

Hugh Hewitt wondered aloud on his radio show this week if Fred Thompson might not be a good GOP nominee for President because the country “might not want another slow talking Southerner after Bush.”

Funny there wasn't any mention about a slow talking southerner from Arkansas.

[beckysueb]

I just popped in and out of another thread where they are cutting Fred up pretty good. There were some people in there who had been for Fred but seemed to be changing their minds about him after reading some of the crap posted there. Fred has them running scared but I hate that they seem to be turning people against him. I think they are Hunter people.

[eyedigress]

"I don't feel no-ways tired..."

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping

[stephenjohnbanker]

Frank Capra would have loved this : )

[ToddBush]

Fred is a conservative, and that scares blue-blood “moderate” Republicans like hewitt. Point. Blank.

[The Pack Knight]

Hugh Hewitt wondered aloud on his radio show this week if Fred Thompson might not be a good GOP nominee for President because the country “might not want another slow talking Southerner after Bush.”

My fellow Ohioan needs to go buy a clue. As someone who grew up in Ohio and now lives in the South, I don't think many from either region would really prefer a smooth talking Northeasterner to a "slow talking Southerner".

I know, Mitt's from Michigan (which makes me wonder if Hugh's really an "Ohiophile"), but his public persona is pure Yankee. He doesn't exactly remind one of a working-class Midwesterner.

Despite his protests to the contrary, Hugh Hewitt will say anything, no matter how ridiculous, to keep Mitt Romney in the race.

[x]

I don't think it's so much about the South. It's about the "Bush type."

America didn't want another "Clinton type" so it chose Bush. Now it's going to want an "anti-Bush."

Today, people don't want an earnest evangelical who knows what he believes and leaves it at that.

Before George Allen left the Senate and the presidential race, people thought his Bush-like qualities would doom his candidacy. Sam Brownback has the same problem now.

If Southernness hurts Thompson it won't be because Northerners hate Southerners, but because they want a change from George W. Bush, and can't help hearing W when a politician drawls.

[Tarpon]

That’s what I figure, the Rino stampede is about to take flight.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Bush is not a Southerner. He is a blue blood Yankee from born in Connecticut.