I would be happy provide comparisons between Mr. Steele and former Rep. Watts.
I think you would agree, while Mr. Steele is a fine man, J.C. is a true conservative and more experienced than is Mr. Steele.
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Posted on 04/15/2007 12:05:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Collects 2-1 margin of victory over nearest runner-up.
Republican Fred Thompson, the target of several "draft Fred" for the White House campaigns, easily won a presidential poll conducted by the American Family Association.
The Alabama native was sent to the Senate after winning a 1994 special election in Tennessee to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Al Gore and was re-elected in 1996. He chose in 2002 not to seek re-election and has appeared in several Hollywood productions since.
In the new AFA poll, he collected 24,872 votes for president in a compilation taken just hours before the poll closed at midnight yesterday.
The runner-up was former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with 9,889 votes, while ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was third with 7,877.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was fourth with 6,154; John McCain fifth with 5,090; Mike Huckabee sixth with 3,179; Sam Brownback seventh with 3,051; Tom Tancredo eighth with 2,060; and Ron Paul ninth with 1,884.
The leading Democrat in the poll was John Edwards, in 10th with 1,780 votes, and he was followed by fellow party members Barack Obama with 1,414 and Hillary Clinton with 1,108.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Ping the Fred fan club.
This looks to me to be an internet poll. Not really of any value if that’s the case.
Will this cancer issue do any damages to Fred’s chances? Also, I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about a possible JC Watts as VP candidate. As for merits I like Watts and secondly his race could gain some black voters.
And by the AFA... not exactly a cross-section of the electorate. :-(
I like the idea of Thompson/Steele better.
JC is OK, but Steele is a more genuine conservative IMHO.
Thompson/Hunter is a superb combination too. I’d really like to see Hunter as the President eventually, but I don’t think he has a decent chance this go-round.
Fred! is the most electable of the likely candidates right now; Guliani may be electible, nation wide, but he might as well be a semi-conservative Democrat, and my vote for him would be a ‘lesser of two evils’ thing.
Rudy’s still way ahead. The thing is, the American people know Rudy. He’s branded. Fred isn’t, at leat not in the same way. Too bad, so sad. The facts are still the fatcs.
Trust me on this one!
I was a big JC Watts fan for a few years. But after personally hearing him say nice things about Hillary and other lefties, and for some liberal causes, I lost a lot of faith in him.
Steele is a fine man. But, I don’t want to put our hope in a candidate that could not win his recent state-wide election. He will be like Gore.
You mean, “Delete your cookies and vote again and again”?
***....In an interview with Fox News, Thompson confirmed he’s pro-life and believes Roe vs. Wade is both bad law and bad medical science, America should be tolerant of “gays” but they should not have “special rights,” marriage is between a man and a woman, and he opposes gun control generally....***
Its pretty pathetic that Newt, a man who divorced his wife while she was dying, almost won a family poll.
“Rudy’s still way ahead. The thing is, the American people know Rudy. He’s branded. Fred isn’t, at leat not in the same way. Too bad, so sad. The facts are still the fatcs.
Trust me on this one!”
No the American people don’t know rudie and the more they get to know him the more he will drop. The South and Heartland of this country will not vote for rudie. He has all the same reasons one would vote against hillary which means they will either vote third party or just stay home.
We aint buying what rudie’s selling.
I believe you had to be registered and logged in to vote in this poll. And yes go rudie,, go far away and just keep going.
If Steele had run for Senate in a state that was not overwhelmingly liberal (by population majorities), your argument might have some bearing.
You might as well say that because California doesn’t send Republican Senators to D.C. that a Republican from California is unelectable nationwide.
Do they know electing Fred means a FLILF?
Well .. before you can get any “cross-section” votes - you have to have your party’s votes.
The AFA is very conservative .. and getting the top spot here is VERY important. This is a major portion of the base. Without the base - you get nothing!!
2006 was a sample!
Grow up.
One DOES have to be registered? Or you BELIEVE one does have to be registered? I'm logged-in at some forums under four different names! ('Rats keep blocking my comments).
And yes go rudie,, go far away and just keep going.
I missed voting for Goldwater—being underage. But I watched our star flicker out with a single TV ad featuring a nine-year-old girl picking petals from a flower followed by a mushroom cloud. The Vietnam War blundered on in true 'Rat fashion. Nobody wants to so totally lose as we did back then—and they'll torpedo a conservative again.
This country's voters are very labile, and not the brightest bulbs to start with. :^(
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