Posted on 04/10/2007 5:00:14 PM PDT by SE Mom
...Its been said by many including me, that America is experiencing a nationwide epidemic of Attention Deficit Disorder. ..
But in watching the Fred Thompson phenomenon develop, I am coming to a different opinion, one that might explain the clear political apathy of the average American voter and the current Fred Thompson fever all in one shot...
.. The problem is looking more like a nationwide state of extreme political boredom. A case of a nation bored into a trance, or a deep slumber by a nauseatingly boring group of over-stuffed politically correct and morally bankrupt blowhards saying nothing..
..Eventually, it all just blurs together to make one big boring indistinguishable white noise and nobody is listening anymore. Why should they? Nobodys saying anything...
..And that my friends, is what people like about former two term, then back to the real world, plain spoken Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson. I mean aside from the fact the he is a professionally trained orator capable of completing a sentence using only his own thoughts and no old cue cards from any political party campaign guru...
..Fred Thompson stands out in the crowd like a real live candidate with a mind of his own, even when trying not to slip up and accidentally agree to run for president. And as long as he retains his traditional irreverence for Washington nonsense, he will continue to be popular among voters who can very much relate to that uncommonly outspoken irreverence....
...And thats why folks all over this nation are sitting on their wallets waiting to see if Fred will answer the peoples call before committing a penny to the 08 political circus already center stage and raging out of control, a year before the primaries are even supposed to begin...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...
Pro life on every vote.
“IF Fred runs, your guy is going down in flames alone with all the other RINOs, watch and see. There are over 200 comments on this threat now. How many of them seem to even remotely support your spineless position?”
Look, leave the FR comments out of it. Those who post do not represent anything more than a small segment of the conservative community. As for Fred’s running—perhaps. I wouldn’t bet on it. He has lymphoma—which is a manageable disease but which takes a toll on one’s energy. I doubt Thompson will have the requisite stamina required for a presidential run. Even now, in the Cavuto interview, he admits that should he run he will have no intention of running the usual campaign of criss-crossing the country to drum up votes. That doesn’t sound like somebody who appreciates what it takes to win the next time around.
Careful writeblock...
You’re gatting dangerously close to praying for Thompson’s cancer to come out of remission...
FR happens to be one of the biggest conservative blogs in the country. I assure you, the RNC is watching what is being said here and you had better be too.
Maybe you like this news flash better...
Day 6, 10:30 AM ET (Results are delayed 15 minutes)
Total Votes: 11,942
percent votes
JOE BIDEN (SENATOR DE) (41)
(0%)
SAM BROWNBACK (SENATOR KS) (117)
(1%)
WESLEY CLARK (GENERAL - RET.) (41)
(0%)
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (SENATOR NY) (184)
(2%)
JOHN COX (INVESTOR) (15)
(0%)
CHRISTOPHER DODD (SENATOR CT) (5)
(0%)
JOHN EDWARDS (FORMER SENATOR NC) (167)
(1%)
JIM GILMORE (FORMER GOVERNOR VA) (12)
(0%)
NEWT GINGRICH (FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE) (2,052)
(17%)
RUDY GIULIANI (FORMER MAYOR - NEW YORK CITY) (2,185)
(18%)
AL GORE (FORMER VICE PRESIDENT) (113)
(1%)
MIKE GRAVEL (FORMER SENATOR - AK) (9)
(0%)
CHUCK HAGEL (SENATOR NE) (16)
(0%)
MIKE HUCKABEE (FORMER GOVERNOR AR) (107)
(1%)
DUNCAN HUNTER (REPRESENTATIVE - CA) (232)
(2%)
DENNIS KUCINICH (REPRESENTATIVE - OH) (31)
(0%)
JOHN MCCAIN (SENATOR AZ) (217)
(2%)
BARACK OBAMA (SENATOR IL) (254)
(2%)
GEORGE PATAKI (FORMER GOVERNOR NY) (8)
(0%)
RON PAUL (REPRESENTATIVE - TX) (669)
(6%)
FRED PHELPS (CALVINIST PASTOR) (15)
(0%)
BILL RICHARDSON (GOVERNOR NM) (70)
(1%)
MITT ROMNEY (FORMER GOVERNOR MA) (1,131)
(9%)
MICHAEL SAVAGE (RADIO TALK SHOW HOST) (232)
(2%)
AL SHARPTON (REVEREND) (23)
(0%)
TOM TANCREDO (REPRESENTATIVE - CO) (475)
(4%)
FRED DALTON THOMPSON (FORMER SENATOR TN) (3,320)
(28%)
TOMMY THOMPSON (FORMER GOVERNOR WI) (201)
(2%)
Or maybe this one...
...A recent Vision America online presidential preference poll of more than 2,500 “values voters” across the United States indicates significant support for Thompson. Vision America says 37.6 percent of the 2,678 respondents supported Thompson for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, while Rudy Giuliani came in second with 14.1 percent, followed by Ron Paul at 11.3 percent, Newt Gingrich at 10.6 percent and Sam Brownback at 7.4 percent.
Conservatives are sending this same message all over the country. Don’t listen...that’s okay.
“Its easy to understand my positionif you properly appreciate the principle of double effect.”
Ba-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha....!
No, one only need properly understand the art of “double-talk”....
LMAO
Gotta love those situational ethics.
Rudy is a promise only, smoke and mirrors, of security, and nothing else.
I would rather put my cards on a man with cancer than Rudy, another form of liberal cancer.
I can’t believe how hard they work to convince people they have solid convictions while they are so obviously willing to sell out for false political expedience...
Amazing! And he thinks his problem is me and a small fringe conservative movement unwilling to compromise again?
“Youre gatting dangerously close to praying for Thompsons cancer to come out of remission. FR happens to be one of the biggest conservative blogs in the country. I assure you, the RNC is watching what is being said here and you had better be too.”
Don’t project onto me your own shallow attitudes. I do not wish Thompson ill-will simply because I support Rudy Giuliani. What’s more, I don’t worry about Thompson’s candidacy at all and if he eventually became our nominee, I’d vote for him in a shot over any Democrat. That said, I doubt he will run—and if he does, I’m certain he will lose in the primaries. So I’m not at all concerned.
As for the RNC, I’m sure they couldn’t care less about what I’ve been saying—and if Freerepublic wishes to ban me for expressing my honest views, that can’t be helped either—though I don’t believe this is the actual case at all—otherwise I wouldn’t be welcomed here. Believe me, both the RNC and FR understand not all conservatives think alike. Many of us, thank goodness, are better informed and better schooled in logic than you seem to be.
“Gotta love those situational ethics.”
The principle of double effect has nothing to do with situational ethics.
Precisely, we need to offer the voter a 'difference', not a popular similarity. Even the Chinese get it: one from column A, one from column B.
If this is true, then America is already finished as a free society.
Thanks for the 'glass-half-full' analysis. I've been losing faith.
ignore the base of the party that is looking for a real conservative candidate or none at all...
Ignoring the base would be fatal this time around. They've positioned their Queen socialist, we need to counter with capitalist King conservatives en mass to defeat her. Long live the republic.
ps, surrendering to the Left ought to require more than white flags and votes. Let them figure out what this means and whether they want to go there.
Amen!
Pop a top on me!
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