Posted on 03/23/2007 2:48:10 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Fred Thompson could win the White House for the GOP in 2008.
However, there are many on FR who have already committed to un-electable losers in the field, and will attack Thompson to bring him down to their choice's level, while fearing that Thompson will pull a Reagan, and bring a true ELECTABLE Conservative candidate to the race when he enters.
The GOP frontrunners -- Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney -- each have their own peculiar weaknesses.
Read my tagline, enough said.
Run Fred, Run
I hope he runs. He's the only contender so far that has even generated any interest on my part. I would happily vote for him instead of having to hold my nose and vote for "anyone but Hillary".
I liked Fred a lot when he was in Congress, and I'm more impressed with him every time I hear him speak now. I would vote for him in a split second and would love to see a Thompson/Hunter ticket.
Well alrighty then lets have the fight and let it start now.
I am for Fred, he is no Rudy McCain Romney!
I agree but does he have the fire in the belly? for someone who left politics for apparently good reasons, this election with the Democrat Beast will take all he can muster.
Well said. Go Fred!!
Mike
The MSM blacks out who they fear most.
Im sure Mr Thompson is a well reasoned adult who will only enter if he thinks he is up to and willing to do the job.
It certainly appears at this point that he is seriously considering it.
He is currently in the process of ensuring that he is in a legal position to get out of current contractural obligations clearing the way for a presidential run
THOMPSON: This day and time, it doesn't take long to learn what people think. I have never beaten down a lot of doors in my life, but occasionally doors have opened to me, and I had sense enough to see that they were opening, and I would walk through them, and they've always turned out well for me.
Don't be a whiner.
I hope that's true because the Clinton warroom will dredge up each and every slight misstep or even a harsh word he might've uttered from the past 40 years, then pass it to the drivebys for unrelenting character assassination.
Democrats are not the only ones who fear him...lol.
Mark Alexander has the DVDs in his Jack Ryan Boxed Set mixed up. Fred Thompson was not a member of the cast of "Clear and Present Danger." But that's a small blem in an otherwise perfect article.
What Alexander does know without question is conservatives and conservatism. His statement that "Fred's conservative credentials are unassailable" should silence once and for all those who have charged on other threads that Thompson is not a real conservative.
His praise for Fred as "a plain-speaking and plain-dealing American -- a charismatic leader right out of the Reagan mold, whose character, integrity and experience are head and shoulders above the rest of the field" should also go a long way to put a damper on some of the other harpies who have lamely argued that Fred has no executive experience.
After all, Fred continued to practice law and maintained offices in both Nashville and Washington for over two decades. When Congress called upon him to serve as Special Counsel to both the U.S. Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees, he served each post with distinction. His skills are highly regarded by Republicans and feared by Democrats, and he is listed in Naifeh and Smith’s book, The Best Lawyers in America.
Fred has experienced first hand both the disappointments and the triumphs that come everything from from hard factory work to running a small business and meeting a payroll for both branches of his law practice for more than twenty years.
Alexander hits a bullseye with his closing sentence, "Fred Thompson is the right man at the right time."
Run, Fred run! And by all means, convince J.C. Watts to run with you. Make a little history...
The best choice that has a good chance of winning for the GOP in 2008, I think, and a Conservative, common sense candidate....with all-important National name recognition and minimal baggage.
I've made no decision at this date as to which of the present GOP candidates I would support in the Primary. At the present I am not impressed with any of them. If Fred Thompson enters the race my choice will have been made. He is a man that I could, without reservation, support fully. Let's just hope that he decides to get into this race. And, soon.
The truth is that Fred is lacking executive governing experiance in the tradtitional political sense, but as you have pointed out he more than makes up for that in his wide and varied life experiances
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