Posted on 05/15/2007 6:21:49 PM PDT by Politicalmom
I thought this comment by Bob Krumm "Thompsons reponse to Moore will have a much greater impact on the presidential campaign than anything said at this little shindig tonight. Itll be seen by many more people too" was an exaggeration, a bit of blogospheric triumphalism. Now I'm not so sure. As of 7:45 p.m. EST, the video has 156,069 views. Obviously, plenty of those are repeat viewers. But that's a good run in less than eight hours.
MSNBCs first Democratic debate had 2.26 million viewers; their GOP debate had 1.76 million viewers. (Reasons for the lower viewers for the GOP? 1. Most of America was glued to their web-browsers for my live-blogging. 2. Pre-game hosted by Keith Olbermann, who eight nights earlier had "accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with "the same chilling nonchalance of the madman." 3. It was hosted by Chris Matthews. 4. Many Americans actually have lives.)
Anyway, it will be interesting to see what gets greater buzz in the coming days. In a way, if every GOP candidate on stage tonight plays it safe, a potential candidate bit- er, slapping around Michael Moore might actually spur more discussion in GOP circles.
05/15 07:57 PM
it is amusing how many freepers think they have thought of some angle that Fred must not be considering which will lead to his undoing. we are nothing if not a hubristic bunch!
Thanks!
I actually found out that the term “Fredneck” was originally used to refer to a resident of Frederick, Maryland, about 30 miles from my new home here. LOL!
I like the current useage better though! Go Fred!
welcome to the DC metro area, i live on the other side of the river : )
I thought you live on the other side of the tracks?
Wow - THAT is the best retort Fat Boy was able to come up with??
He clearly was not prepared to see a GOP politician fight fire with a blow torch. Of course, considering recent GOP politicians, I don't blame him for not expecting such a retort.
Jabba the Hut has officially surrendered - FDT declared winner by TKO.
Thanks! It’s a different world here from OH.
well, that too....
i know what you mean. i am originally from Pittsburgh and have family in Youngstown/Cleveland area, whom we go up to visit. it is quite different. my brother will tell you THAT is the real world and this is not, but who knows!
I’d agree. I still can’t get over how few native-born white people I run in to here. Not that I care, it’s just DIFFERENT is all!
my nieces and nephews can’t get over the fact that you will never find a suburban American teenager working at a fast food restaurant here. I don’t know how far out you have to go to find that. i think you can find that in Frederick, actually, but not in Fairfax Co. The service industry here is almost 100% foreign-born.
I’ve noticed that too. In OH 80% of fast-food employees are teens or early 20s high school or college types, generally.
Do teenagers here not work jobs then or what?
my older two have been camp counselors at sports camps in the summer. they have friends who work in some stores like American Eagle and Abercrombie stores in the mall in the summer, other than that, i have no idea what teenagers do!
As a teenager, I had to work if I wanted a car. My parents couldn’t afford to do otherwise.
So not only do things cost three times as much but parents are paying for their kids to drive, too? I’m still figuring all that stuff out.
I hope Fred runs and I hope whomever put that video clip together for him is on his campaign team!
“realize this is just Fred talking, but words do mean something and I would give a weeks pay to see some Republican Senators on the hill talk back to the libs this way on a regular basis.” This just goes to show you can shoot a guy down without making personal attacks. It was the perfect response.
Megadittos.
But I pray for Fred Thompson the enter the race and support Hunter also.
since we were perpetrating a FRED hijack, i responded in freepmail ; )
Would someone PLEASE knock this blowhard on his keister? I am so sick of the verbal diarrhea that oozes out of his gaping piehole. Yuck.
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