Posted on 07/11/2007 2:13:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Tough job trying to predict the unpredictable but, my guess is that the majority will go into a major pout and sit out another one. I suspect that the core of McCain’s support is old Ross Perot diehards.
Fred Ping!
i am thinking more and more:
Thompson/Romney 2008
Thompson certainly is a strong candidate, to the right of George Bush by a country mile. Conservatives will be on board.
Romney, who will appeal to moderates, independents, and the women attracted to Edwards, could earn his conservative bona fides in 8 years.
The combination of Thompson/Romney may have the right stuff to carry 2008.
Somehow, I get the feeling that Freddy the RINO is not the guy we’re looking for.
I’ll go with Duncan Hunter.
Duncan Hunter should be in first or second place.
What's this "we" business -- do you have a mouse in your pocket? :)
Thompson is definitely the candidate I'm looking for. Both Hunter and Thompson have great national security credentials, but the addition of Thompson's record on federalism, and his understanding of the proper Constitutional roles of state and federal government, puts him miles ahead of any other candidate for me.
“Duncan Hunter should be in first or second place.”
I agree with you. He is the closest thing we have right now to Teedie Roosevelt who happens to be the former president I most admire. I wonder how a conversation would have gone between the silky pony and Teedie on his South American expedition going down the River of Doubt.
Silky Pony Edwards: We’re not going to make it Mr. Roosevelt, we have to turn back.
TR: Suck it up!!
Seriously, I like Duncan Hunter and Mike Huckabee the best. However, they just are not gaining traction. Out of the front runners. I support Fred Thompson...
When Duncan gets above 5% in the polls please mail me...
So let’s say Duncan doesn’t get the Republican nomination and Fred does...Are you going to vote for Fred over Hillary?
“Are you going to vote for Fred over Hillary?”
My fear is if Rudy or Mitt get the nod and we have a choice of one of those two over Hillary. They are both talking a good game right now, but their records speak louder to me. They both have a history of being gun grabbers and both have a history of abortion support. While Mitt has had a sudden conversion on abortion and they both have had a conversion on gun control, I prefer conversions that happen years before running for president and acting on your beliefs at a lower office than President. To me, this would not be much of a choice.
Obviously - but, then again, I’d vote for my dog over Hillary (or Edwards or Barack Hussein, et al.)
McCain’s backers were (past tense) the Neocon jocksniffers and Chambers of Commerce—never the middle class Joe Sixpacks. I expect their support to go to Rudy.
LOL! I'm guessing the candidates who are going try try to woo them will take a more tactful approach than yours.! ;^)
I resent that comment. Those of us who voted for Ross Perot twice have learned our lesson, and are not about to make that mistake again.
We now know that the media is in love with Fred, just like it used to be in love with McCain. Watch for more articles showing Fred as a maverick, a populist. Watch for articles saying "Fred is good with veterans (like McCain was)." "Fred "tells it like it is" (just like McCain). Fred voted for campaign finance reform. The media loved that about McCain. They love it about Fred. So let's stop pretending that every story out of the press is a hit piece on an undeclared candidate. I'd like to think of it as a love letter from infatuated media. "Say goodbye to the old boss...just like the new boss".
Sir/Madam, are you smoking something other than tobacco? Senator Thompson hasn’t even declared yet, and he’s been accused of: Lobbying for a pro-abortion group, throwing his sons business, being a ‘mole’ for President Nixon during the Watergate hearings, a cradle robber with a buxom ‘trophy wife’, being a RINO, and much more!! Get real!
Its sir...and to you, these media “attacks” are surely baseless. But to the press, these stories show that Fred is the media darling. Who else did the press love that had a thing for younger women? Bill Clinton of course! What press writer doesn’t think lobbying for abortion rights isn’t a good thing?
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