[refermech]

I think Fred can wait as long as he wants. He’s is the best candidate IMHO!!

[JFC]

JFC to Dick Morris.. SHUT UP!

[Dog Gone]

Thompson’s solid record of exposing corruption in Tennessee and prosecuting campaign-finance violations by the Clintons in Washington would be very attractive to voters.

That's some revisionist history. Thompson let John Glenn walk all over him in the investigations of the Chinese contributions to the Clintons and it accomplished nothing. The Rats won that one.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

What I want to know is who is running in '12 and '16?

Candidates need to declare for these races soon or the field will be full up.

[WalterSkinner]

[WalterSkinner]

[George W. Bush]

If they won’t declare before summer, we should consider them out of the race. The other candidates are soaking up money, building organization. I think they can still enter and win up until mid-summer. But after that, there won’t be time to run a real campaign in the big states.

[Ole Okie]

Thompson’s solid record of exposing corruption in Tennessee and prosecuting campaign-finance violations by the Clintons in Washington would be very attractive to voters.

What? Exposing campaign finance Chinagate violations by the Clintoooons?

Yeah, I remember that. Fred sitting in the Chairman's Seat. And John Glenn to his left, blocking everything that might point to the Clintoooooooons or prove useful in the investigations.

And Fred sitting there looking constipated, but letting Glenn run all over him.

I'm sorry. I'll vote for him if he is the Republican candidate. But I sure can't get excited about it.

[RatsDawg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815583/posts

already a thread.

[Candor7]

Duncan Hunter.

And the polls do not adequately measure his support.

I think he is going to do it.

[jellybean]

Thompson, who conceivably could defeat Hillary — he is a blank slate at the moment — would also be a strong candidate. He would immediately eclipse Romney and drive the anti-Giuliani social conservatives who are now backing McCain to his candidacy. It would be the classic media match-up: America’s Mayor against the “Law & Order” prosecutor. Thompson’s solid record of exposing corruption in Tennessee and prosecuting campaign-finance violations by the Clintons in Washington would be very attractive to voters.

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THOMPSON FLOOR SPEECH ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM March 27, 2001

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[ellery]

Oh, Dick -- the cluelessness continues. ...Giuliani, socially liberal but conservative on everything else...

Uh, no. While I don't think labels of "conservatism" are useful since we can't decide what that means, I do wish people wouldn't persist in framing the Giuliani debate as social conservatives vs. everyone else. The more interesting and potentially valuable story is the way opposition to Giuliani's candidacy has united social conservatives and small-l libertarian conservatives. That implies these two groups, which have been pretty much at odds since Reagan, can potentially find common ground again.

Beyond appeals to their sense of decency, always awkward in politics, they must consider that the ongoing speculation is not doing their ratings for decisiveness and strength any good.

It's incorrect to say that they haven't decided yet -- we don't know that. All we know is that they haven't told us what they've decided yet. Mapping out a strategy for when to officially enter the race is smart. Having a plan B in case one's favored undeclared candidate doesn't run is also smart.