Posted on 03/27/2007 3:51:49 AM PDT by Josh Painter
USA Today and Gallup offer their latest in polling for both parties in the extended presidential primary race, and a couple of changes have raised eyebrows. First, even the rumor of a bid by Fred Thompson has dented Rudy Giuliani's momentum, while John McCain's decline in support appears to have leveled off:
"On the Republican side, former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson shook up the field with his announcement that he would consider getting into the presidential race. Thompson is familiar as the actor who plays District Attorney Arthur Branch on NBC's Law and Order. Chosen by 12% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters, Thompson is third in the Republican field. He trails former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, at 31%, and Arizona Sen. John McCain, at 22%. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is at 8%."
"Thompson's support seems to come largely from voters who had supported Giuliani. In the USA TODAY poll taken March 2-4, Giuliani's standing had been 13 percentage points higher, at 44%. McCain's support had been 2 points lower then."
"What does this mean? Conservatives who have supported Giuliani for his leadership and electability -- and plenty of them have -- would desert Rudy if a credible, consistent conservative entered the race... Thompson['s]... eight years in the Senate have left a more credible sense of consistency and center-right politics than Giuliani brings to the race. And according to the Post's blog The Sleuth, Thompson has begun seriously considering a run -- and has met with GOP powerhouse advisor Ed Gillespie."
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Romney fared poorly in this poll... That has to be disappointing, especially since Hugh Hewitt's political biography and Romney's appearance at CPAC should have set the stage for a significant boost. Has Thompson's potential disrupted Romney's momentum as well? Possibly.
(Excerpt) Read more at captainsquartersblog.com ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070327/cm_thenation/45179510
"The Fred Thompson Effect"
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"The latest USA Today/Gallup poll is out and it is pretty startling. Despite being undeclared, actor Fred Thompson is polling at 12%. Giuliani, meanwhile, is down 13%, partly as a side-effect of Thompson's potential candidacy, partly as a result of increased conservative awareness of Rudy's personal profile..."
Exactly right. I'm all for Rudy, and I'm all for Fred. I despise the trashing of either here.
And then there's this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/fred-thompson_b_44304.html
They really are worried about him over at the Huffington Post..
Makes sense. Much of Giuliani's support arises because his supporters don't like the alternatives.
After thoroughly reading up on FT, starting with his 1975 book, I was most impressed by that "credible sense of consistency."
Fred Thompson doesn't mutate and morph, you can recognize the same man today in the man who wrote that book decades ago.
Then you listen to Mitt or Rudy as they try to spit out their latest mushy equivocations, and you long for them to go away.
The funniest thing was that the worst thing they could say about him is that he wants to drill in ANWR and he is against KYOTO. They think that would be enough to sink him LOL!
I agree. I'm disappointed in the immaturity of some Freepers sometimes.
Unfortunately there seems to be an abundance of people who think this is all a game. Pick a side and defend it no matter what, and attack, smear and demonize any opponent rather than deal with the fact that some will disagree.
A mature, intelligent discussion every now and then would be refreshing.
LOL! They just don't GET IT.
* Fred Thompson has blasted more people in the face with a shotgun than even Dick Cheney.
* The masked executioner of Saddam Hussein: Fred Thompson.
* Every night before going to sleep, Osama bin Laden checks under his bed for Fred Thompson.
* Fred Thompson took over what was Al Gore's Senate seat, thereby dramatically reducing the Senate's carbon footprint. Fred Thompson then created carbon offset offsets by wastefully burning hippies.
* Fred Thompson reconsidered running for reelection after 9/11 but later decided to handle things on his own. He was soon seen entering the Middle East with a bottle of tequila in one hand an a handgun in the other. They're still counting the dead.
* Fred Thompson once ended a filibuster by ripping out a Senator's heart and showing it to him before he died.
* The actual cause of global warming: Fred Thompson's burning rage.
* Fred Thompson once stood on our south border and glared at Mexico. There was no illegal immigration for a month.
* Scientists predict that when Fred Thompson dies he'll explode taking out the five nearest planets before collapsing into a black hole.
* If you purchase a weather radio, it will wake you up with an alarm to warn you when Fred Thompson is pissed off.
* Webster's Dictionary defines "conservatism" as "how closely one's views resemble those of Fred Thompson."
* Fred Thompson's sense of strategy is so great that he can checkmate you using only a pawn and a knight.
* When terrorists get to the afterlife, they'll find that none of their seventy-two women are still virgins. Why? Because of Fred Thompson.
* Why does Iran want nuclear weapons? Out of fear of Fred Thompson.
"I'm all for Rudy, and I'm all for Fred."
I'll let you explain to the others how this is possible.
Fact is, these 2 candidates are polar opposites. Mr. Guiliana seems to have his parties mixed up.
yeah...someone didnt get his wheaties....and it was Rudy....
ping the pinger
Please identify a GOP Conservative candidate currently, who has national name recognition, and can be voted for without a clothespin on one's nose?
LOL, look I ain't got the time to have a primary pissing match with you today, lets just agree that I'm a RINO-RUDY LOVER and your a loon and call it a day.
Remember back not to long ago when we would all come here and attack Democrats?
That's how.
"Exactly right. I'm all for Rudy, and I'm all for Fred. I despise the trashing of either here."
That's like saying, "I'm a liberal, and I'm a conservative". Which is it?
All Fred needs is the money. My checkbook is right here. I will write a check to save America.
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