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Lights, Camera . . . Candidacy?
OpinionJournal.com ^ | March 17, 2007 | John Fund

Posted on 03/16/2007 9:25:07 PM PDT by gpapa

Fred Thompson is shaking up the GOP presidential field. And he's not even running yet.

BY JOHN FUND
Saturday, March 17, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

NEW YORK--"Expect her to recount every moment of her ordeal," the savvy district attorney mused to his deputy. "There won't be a dry eye in the jury."

"That's a take!" says a director of the hit NBC series "Law and Order." With that, Fred Thompson, the former U.S. senator from Tennessee who has played "strict constructionist" prosecutor Arthur Branch for the past four years, walks back with me to his dressing room to talk about a new role he might soon be undertaking: surprise Republican presidential candidate.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: candidate; electionpresident; elections; federalism; fredthompson; thompson
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To: nopardons
since you are unable to donate the $500 million needed to win the primary,

If I withhold my 2 pence (and my folk), there won't be 500M(US). Stew on that, before you piss off someone with money in their pocket, and no candidate worthy on deck...

/johnny

61 posted on 03/16/2007 11:39:07 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Yes, I'm grumpy, And?)
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To: nopardons
You asked for a pop-up, not a GOP pop-up.....

/johnny

62 posted on 03/16/2007 11:42:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Yes, I'm grumpy, And?)
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I'd prefer Fred, but I don't know if it's just because I so unprefer the others.


63 posted on 03/16/2007 11:44:13 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: nopardons
FR has NOTHING at all to "do" in the scheme of things; no power whatsoever

Ok... So.... Why do you post so upset? We don't run the world. We're (mostly) not masters of the universe... So why are you so strident?

/johnny

64 posted on 03/16/2007 11:46:37 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Yes, I'm grumpy, And?)
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To: babygene
forcing a liberal on us.

Good grief.

The constant conspiracy crap on this forum is bizarre.

65 posted on 03/16/2007 11:52:30 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: nopardons

Is there a candidate you actually like?


66 posted on 03/17/2007 12:04:50 AM PDT by jmc813 (The 2nd Amendment is NOT a "social conservative" issue.)
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To: M. Thatcher
The constant conspiracy crap on this forum is bizarre

No, it is not. It's a free republic. Where each citizen gets his say. Even if he's koo-koo in the brain-pan. That's the way of it. I can argue with him, I can love or hate him, but he gets his say if he follows the rules.

Welcome to a Free republic..

/johnny

67 posted on 03/17/2007 12:06:16 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Yes, I'm grumpy, And?)
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To: jmc813; nopardons

She watches the All-Rudy Channel.


68 posted on 03/17/2007 12:06:49 AM PDT by RockinRight ("After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." - FDT)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yeah, ace. Free Republic, where I get to say the conspiracy crap is bizarre.


69 posted on 03/17/2007 12:08:00 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher
Yepper, ace, that's what you get to say...Perzactly.

And I'm up for dancing at any hour, for health or practice or drill. Or as a second...

/johnny

70 posted on 03/17/2007 12:12:33 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Yes, I'm grumpy, And?)
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To: jmc813

71 posted on 03/17/2007 12:13:06 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: JRandomFreeper
And, by the way, thanks for the "welcome," newbie.

;^)

72 posted on 03/17/2007 12:14:15 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IrE6FMpai8


73 posted on 03/17/2007 12:14:39 AM PDT by Mojave
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To: M. Thatcher
I was hoping for a recourse to seconds, where I could sleep until I was awakend and killed. That's what seconds are for..

/johnny

74 posted on 03/17/2007 12:17:38 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Yes, I'm grumpy, And?)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Hooo-kay.


75 posted on 03/17/2007 12:20:00 AM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: gpapa
Giuliani, McCain and Romney will not get my vote. I'll vote third party if one of those three become the nominee. Thompson I can live with.
76 posted on 03/17/2007 12:48:15 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
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To: papasmurf

I hadn't even thought that far ahead yet, but Watts would certainly be an excellent choice for VP.


77 posted on 03/17/2007 12:49:46 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (Everyone should have a subject they are ignorant about. I choose professional corporate sports.)
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To: Mojave
You'll notice how Thompson has the Rudy supporters in a blind panic.

Funny that. Nobody seriously expects McCain to actually win the nomination, Romney has milqeutoast support, but Rudy backers fly into open rage when Fred's name comes up...

78 posted on 03/17/2007 3:05:07 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("We're Living In A Twilight World..."- Swingout Sister)
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To: jmc813
Is there a candidate you actually like?

My bet, given the stridency of his/her posts: Her Heinousness...

79 posted on 03/17/2007 3:12:03 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("We're Living In A Twilight World..."- Swingout Sister)
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To: M. Thatcher; JRandomFreeper

You calling John a "newbie"?! Let's get the record straight ace. John has probably been here as long as you or I. Condescencion doesn't fit you right, Old-timer...


80 posted on 03/17/2007 3:16:24 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("We're Living In A Twilight World..."- Swingout Sister)
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