Giuliani was getting a boost from folks who are conservative, but are willing to bite the bullet, b/c they believe that he will rain hell onto Islamofascists and that he can win the general.
With Thompson, they get someone just as tough, and who can have just as good a shot at winning. Difference is that he is also a conservative.
So this data makes sense to me.
There are tons of us that NEVER supported Rudy, that might just vote for Fred!
I notice that the Rudybots are really quiet!
and that's his job.....what fools the GOP is
Good, because the scumbag giuliani doesn't even deserve to be in the race.
EXCELLENT!!!!! I hope he pulls them all
He seems to be the perfect candidate. He pleases the country club Republicans, who simply want lower taxes, he pleases the social conservatives, who trust him to support their pet issues, and he pleases the "just don't let any Democrat win in 2008" voters who wouldn't back an unknown like Hunter or Brownback in the primaries.
Did I leave any category out?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20070327/cm_thenation/45179510
"The Fred Thompson Effect"
snip:
"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..."
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.
* 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.
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Lest we forget, my tag says what I'm about and I'll add my bottom line.
Anybody But McCain.
The Establishment wants McCain and maybe Thompson is designed to draw off enough conservative votes to allow McCain to win.
For the latest news and comment on Thompson....
http://draftfredthompson.com/index.php?board=8.0
Who are these Republicans who support John McCain? Is it anything more than name recognition? Why is Romney trending lower? What has he down to cost himself support?
That's only good news if you are polling above 50%. The bottom always provides a leveling off. I'm just amazed that 22% of GOP voters would back the media queen.
Maybe he can have Geena Davis as his veep.
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The more conservative the candidate, the better---in this case, Fred is terrific. But only because he's both ELECTABLE and CONSERVATIVE. If he doesn't run, I'll reluctantly support Rudy.
Fred's great advantage is his appearance on a TV series, which gives him that recognizable face that is absolutely critical for the 20% of people who don't even pay attention until the day before the election.