Posted on 09/11/2007 10:17:51 PM PDT by goldstategop
Isn't it amazing they all have more important things to do to get elected President than to meet face to face with Christian and Jewish leaders who represent millions and millions of votes?
I tell you it is gut-wrenching fear that kept them away.
They are scared to death of the questions. They're scared to death they won't have a good answer. They're scared to death they might say something they will live to regret.
So, all four of the "front-runners" have decided "to play it safe."
Playing it safe means not showing up, making excuses for their absence and hoping they really can take all those values voters for granted. Surely, they will not vote for Hillary! Surely, they won't sit on their hands.
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Thomspon maches to his own drummer , which is refreshing .
Screw those idiotic debates, Thomspon will do this his way .
“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.
>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.
What is the big hurry ? There is time . Thompson has the edge and the others don’t , it’s that simple .
And opinions are like - ah, noses. Everyone's got one
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 .
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.
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 .
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 .
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?
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.
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.
Ping
“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’.
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..
Ok .
Exactly. Well said , end of debate .
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