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EARTH TO LAMAR: FRED THOMPSON LOOKING THE PART AIN'T ENOUGH (41-second video FLUB)
Hardball, YouTube ^ | 4.3.07 | Mia T

Posted on 04/03/2007 5:42:29 AM PDT by Mia T

EARTH TO LAMAR:
FRED LOOKING THE PART AIN'T ENOUGH (video)

by Mia T, 4.3.07




Lamar Alexander on Hardball, pushing Fred Thompson for president confirms the obvious: Fred's top asset is his stage presence, followed closely by his presidential and other executive experience... on film.

Fred's geography and ideology seal the deal for Lamar, the former being pure South and the latter, pure enough Right.

"The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women." (Ursula K. LeGuin)



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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007

 


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To: Mia T

I appreciate your thanks, but there are many more on this forum alone that deserve much more credit than I do for their service to this country. I was more or less basically a REMF during a time that I was not put directly in harms way.

However, I am happy I spent 4 years serving my country while President Reagan was my CIC. :)


181 posted on 04/04/2007 3:42:10 PM PDT by Pox (Just say NO to RINO Rudy!)
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To: Pox

If we stay united, we will win.

We must not forget that hillary clinton is an Alinsky adherent. She understands that she will win only if she Balkanizes the Right. We must not fall prey to this.

Would a Rudy-Fred ticket work for you?


182 posted on 04/04/2007 3:54:36 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
That still would not be an acceptable situation. I doubt I would even vote for a ticket that had Mr. Giuliani as the VP, but then again, I might be persuaded to accept that as long as I can see a full medical report on the Presidential candidate and am assured he will live at least another 8-9 years. :)
183 posted on 04/04/2007 4:02:22 PM PDT by Pox (Just say NO to RINO Rudy!)
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To: Pox

;)


184 posted on 04/04/2007 5:48:54 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Pox

You are too humble. :)


185 posted on 04/04/2007 5:54:44 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: All

Barone: The Changing Republican Race

US News & World Report | April 4, 2007 | Michael Barone

 

The possible entry of Fred Thompson into the Republican presidential race seems to have changed the standings. The USA Today/Gallup poll taken March 23-25 shows Rudy Giuliani with 31 percent of the vote, down from 44 percent March 2-4, and Thompson, a new name on the list, at 12 percent. Similar results come from the Rasmussen poll announced today. Giuliani still leads, with 26 percent, but that's down from 35 percent in the poll released March 27. Thompson, again a new entry, is at 14 percent. In both polls, John McCain's standing is essentially unchanged and so is Newt Gingrich's. Mitt Romney&emdash;the fundraising champ&emdash;is in single digits (only 3 percent in Gallup, 8 percent in Rasmussen). One more poll result: Thompson has replaced Giuliani in first place in the 10th week of the Pajamas Media online straw poll. Giuliani had run first on the Republican side in the first nine weeks. But apply several grains of salt. This straw poll doesn't pretend to be a random-sample poll, and look at the numbers: Thompson 46, Ron Paul 27, Giuliani 9. And Intrade numbers now put Giuliani's chances at 34 percent, Thompson's at 22, and McCain's at 20. At one point, McCain was 45 points ahead of Giuliani on Intrade; Giuliani's surge in February and March changed that. Now Thompson's possible entry has changed the odds.

What's going on here? One thing is that the labels we have used for many years now to characterize Republican presidential candidates are irrelevant. Giuliani is described as a liberal on cultural issues and Thompson a conservative, yet some of Giuliani's previous voters seem ready to go over to Thompson. Yes, they may be cultural conservatives who now are moving to a candidate they think more in line with their views. But they must also be people who believe Giuliani and Thompson have something in common that they'd like to see in the White House. What is that?

Strong leadership at a time when we're at risk of attack, I think. A case in point is Thompson, partly as a result of his work as an actor, partly by his recent substituting for Paul Harvey, but also because of his by now long career in public life. One can note that Thompson, unlike Giuliani, has never served in real life in an executive position, unlike the other Thompson, former Wisconsin Gov. and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who announced his own candidacy this week. But Tommy Thompson is much less well known to voters, and his folksy Midwestern style does not project the aura of strength that Fred Thompson's bluff southern style does. Tommy Thompson did more than any other governor to advance welfare reform, starting in 1987, and Wisconsin's welfare rolls were cut by more than 90 percent. He showed the way for the rest of the nation; Giuliani as mayor of New York hired one of Thompson's top welfare administrators, Jason Turner, to run the city welfare department. On this issue Giuliani was following in Thompson's footsteps.

Irrelevant Asides Department: At a time when U.S. attorneys are news, both Giuliani and Fred Thompson have experience in U.S. attorneys' offices. Giuliani, as is well known, served as U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York&emdash;probably the most important U.S. attorney's office in the nation. Thompson, before he became Howard Baker's counsel on the Senate Watergate committee, was an assistant U.S. attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, based in Nashville. In 1969-71, when I was a law clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, I used to watch him argue appeals in moonshine cases in the Courthouse in Cincinnati. He struck me as not particularly impressive or well prepared, but then the only issue in most of these cases was the validity of the search, and there wasn't much question about that.

Closing note: But Rudy is still running strong, in the primary and the general, in Florida, according to this Quinnipiac poll.

186 posted on 04/04/2007 7:15:17 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Hostage

Barone seems not to agree with your assessment of Fred’s legal intellect.


187 posted on 04/04/2007 7:21:42 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
Take it or leave it.

Looks like the RINO Rudy juggernaut does not need, nor does it desire, my vote.
188 posted on 04/05/2007 12:01:46 PM PDT by Pox (Just say NO to RINO Rudy!)
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