You guys are dead wrong. We LOST the center in 2006. We’re not going to get it back by running a southern good-ol’ boy. Why, pray tell, would the Democrats fear Fred Thompson? And if he is so great then why doesn’t he throw his hat into the ring? Say what you want about Giuliani and McCain and Romney (I have problems with all of them) but at least they are debating and working to get votes. Fred Thompson is lazy, and that he won’t get into the race and would instead comment from afar while Sean Hannity had to save his ass from flubbing a question on abortion is insulting. Why shouldn’t he have to earn our votes like everyone else? Why should someone who hasn’t been vetted leap to the front of the pack? Shouldn’t he have to prove himself before he earns the support of Republicans?
What a pantload.
Point by point:
They fear him because they know he can win. Have you been over to DU and Daily Kos? They even grudgingly admit they agree with Fred on a few things and think he can win.
He is throwing his hat in - in early July. He didn’t do it yet, because then he’d have to report a poor financial showing at the end of this quarter (from jumping in mid-quarter) on June 30. He also had TV/movie contractual obligations. Lazy my ass...that’s an old, tired argument.
Sean Hannity didn’t save him from anything. Esp. considering that Sean has all but fellated Rudy Giuliani despite HIS abortion position anyway.
He is earning our votes. He’s already earned mine. Give the man time, and you’ll probably come around too.
"Fred looks too old."
"Only Guiliani can win."
"Why hasn't Fred jumped in too early like everyone else?"
"Fred's lazy."
It's all hogwash, and has been refuted a hundred times over, yet those of you who would sell out the soul of the party in the misguided notion that a guy who couldn't beat Hillary in a Senate campaign is a shoe-in to beat her for the Presidency still keep repeating it as if you can make it true by repeated assertion.
You must know he has an HBO special coming out and if he declared too soon — before it’s aired — HBO would have to offer free air time to all the other candidates. Watch his video aimed at Michael Moore. It demonstrates Fred’s use of humor and his down home approach. It aired the day of the first republican debate and sucked all the air out of their balloon. No one talked about the dull debate. Everyone talked about Fred’s clever put down of Moore. (Hill quickly had a video made aping the Sopranos. She wouldn’t have done that if Fred’s video hadn’t been a smash.)