The GOP Gutless Wonders (Joseph Farah Slams GOP Front Runners For Dissing Values Voters Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 09/12/2007 | Joseph Farah

[Neu Pragmatist]

Thomspon maches to his own drummer , which is refreshing .

Screw those idiotic debates, Thomspon will do this his way .

[Kimberly GG]

“If Fred solely debates the second tier candidates , it will only serve to elevate them .....”

IMO, with a small number of participants, more questions and more time for answers, Fred’s answers would absolutely elevate Duncan Hunter.

[ROTB]

>I won’t be sitting around 5 years down the road whining
>about a vote I cast.

Exactly! If you are going to vote for one of our gutless “front-runners” you do it without my support.

Raise your standards to our high standards. We will NOT lower ours to suit RINOs and the people who votes for them.

[Neu Pragmatist]

What is the big hurry ? There is time . Thompson has the edge and the others don’t , it’s that simple .

[Old_Mil]

Thomspon maches to his own drummer , which is refreshing .

Better yet, let's find a candidate who is committed to our causes, knows exactly why we're going to vote for him in a general election, and will follow through.

[maine-iac7]

there’s facts and then there’s opinions.

And opinions are like - ah, noses. Everyone's got one

[Neu Pragmatist]

If that’s the case , then why would you expect Thompson to get in and elevate second tier candidates.

The second tier candidates want to use Fred to elevate themselves , because up until now , they’ve only had Ron Paul to try that on .

[WildcatClan]

Thompson is above the fray, Thompson will do it his way? I think you are possibly right in that is his thinking, but he is thinking wrong. Any such arrogant and pretentious attitude is destined for a fall, and a hard one.

[Old_Mil]

Well, speaking of opinions, let me share with you one of Fred's.

"...you're going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they [illegals] can have some aspirations of citizenship..."

- Fred Thompson, April 2006, Fox News

Now while Fredheads have alternatively tried to spin and ignore this statement, their candidate has neither retracted, nor contradicted it.

[Neu Pragmatist]

I was referring to how he does things , not his views . His views are about as solid as we’re going to get in a candidate .

[Neu Pragmatist]

Not . It’s that attitude that’s going to command the respect of the people . The people naturally gravitate to people like Thompson , as you will witness when he wins the nomination and defeats Hillary .

[maine-iac7]

Not only that, since he's dodged all the other debates, this would actually have given him a chance to participate in one.

how many of the sophomoric debates must there be - they're nothing but dog and pony shows. I've never seen so many debates - they look and act like a bunch of kindergartners (apologies to kindergartners) like puppets. And do you really think you get much more than canned rhetoric out of them?

[Deagle]

Never said that... but it is an influential debate that will put him front and center to conservatives. It will be a lost chance to get his conservative principals across in a friendly forum.

[Neu Pragmatist]

I disagree . There will be more than enough chances to get his message and views out there. You are overstating the importance of this debate.

[dcwusmc]

Ping

[Kimberly GG]

“If that’s the case , then why would you expect Thompson to get in and elevate second tier candidates.”

I don’t expect him to. Not just because it would elevate Hunter, but because IMO it would be the undoing of Fred. So long as he sticks close with the top tier, he comes off as the lesser/better of the top tier ‘evils’.

[maine-iac7]

I think there will be plenty of time to get the views of all the candidates .

Absolutely. I believe Fred has pretty much stated that from the get go.

The rest of the pact has been running forever. It's getting so a congresscritter spends his/her entire 2 year term campaigning for the next one.

There'll be debate fatigue long before the primaries - they've turned into little more than sophomoric dog and pony shows..

[Neu Pragmatist]

Ok .

[Neu Pragmatist]

Exactly. Well said , end of debate .

[Lancey Howard]

They are scared to death of the questions.

1. Do you hate abortion?
2. Do you really, really, REALLY hate abortion?
3. How much do you hate abortion?
4. Do you hate abortion more than anything?
5. Will you appoint judges who hate abortion?
6. Will you appoint judges who really, really, REALLY hate abortion?
6. Do you hate abortion?