Posted on 04/18/2007 6:01:35 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.), described by ABC News as "Fred Thompson's top cheerleader on Capitol Hill," after Thompson's visit with GOP lawmakers today said that Thompson's entry into the race is "a matter of when -- not if."
ABC News reports:
Wamp offered his assessment that Thompson is going to jump into the presidential race after the Law & Order actor met at the Capitol Hill Club with 50 to 60 House Republicans. Among the many questions that Thompson faced from the members of Congress he met with were ones about his divorce and his faith. Wamp told ABC News that Thompson said that he is in "excellent standing with everyone important in his life, including his first wife . . . and the man upstairs."
Multiple House Republicans who attended the hour-long Q&A session with Thompson gushed over him as someone who "checks all the boxes" in a way that the current crop of leading Republican contenders do not. [snip]
[S]everal House Republicans who attended today’s meeting seemed to think that he had the charisma, communication skills, and Reaganesque bearing to bring the country together and lead it in a time of war.
We should take Wamp's prediction with some caution, if only because Wamp isn't the most objective source on a Thompson candidacy. Nevertheless, it's been clear for a while that Thompson himself has been prepping for a run, as opposed to just considering it.
First, there was Thompson's interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday in March, which generated major buzz in the conservative blogosphere; next, the series of endorsements, most of them from Thompson's home state of Tennessee; then came Thompson's interview with Neil Cavuto disclosing his cancer, which he says is in remission. Thompson told Cavuto that he was announcing his cancer publicly because he wanted to see how it affected voters. That's one way to put it. Another way is that Thompson was doing the prerequisite "airing" of possible revelations that might hurt him on the campaign trail. And finally there was Saturday's Wall Street Journal op-ed in which Thompson embraced supply-side economics.
Add to this the relative despondency in conservative circles these days with the current crop of candidates and Wamp may be right that a Thompson candidacy isn't a matter of if but when.
He’s going to run, and he’s going to be the next POTUS.
Now I’m going to have to write a check to the Thompson campaign. The last politician I donated to was the late Helen Chenoweth.
I can’t afford this, I’m retired. Maybe I can donate some old clothing...
” I prefer to call him Jesus but”
Is Jesus not the man upstairs? Quit being so picky!
Yes, but the Name Jesus cause a lot more conviction
than “the man upstairs”. The man upstairs is generic
for those who don’t know who Jesus REALLY is.
I’ll be picky about Jesus if I want to because
he “picked” me. OK? :>)
there is, he will, we win....next.....
boy that’s good. reverent and respectfull
Thanks
Rudiphilia on FR is about to turn quite rabid.
I thought it already was. You mean it's going to get worse??
honored for your reply
GREAT NEWS!!!
” (Hillary, Obama, McCain, Rudy and Romney are all the same type of candidate. Spineless political hacks.)”
Where do we find these losers?
Bottom of the barrel!
“...the man upstairs...”
This is quite a generic term, though it does seem to convey a few noteworthy points:
1) there is at least an acknowledgement that there is an “upstairs” (noteworthy in our materialistic culture)
2) the person upstairs is a MAN (noteworthy in our feminized culture)
3) it’s important to be on good terms with said “man upstairs” (noteworthy in our self-centered culture)
Beyond that, I’d take a bit more comfort in knowing that a potential president had the utmost fear and respect for the Creator of the Universe, but, I can’t conclude that Thompson does not have the utmost fear and respect for God just because he used a colloquial term for Him.
You just tooks the words out of my mouth. But I think Fred will announce he's running at the Lincoln Club in Orange County, CA on May 4th.
FDT= Fearful Democrats Trembling(and the rudiebots)
NICE! I like it!
BTTT!!!
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