Posted on 07/12/2007 8:08:26 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Fred D. Thompson has decided not to formally announce his presidential campaign this month and may wait until September to end the suspense for Republicans, according to several sources in his campaign.
When the former senator from Tennessee first acknowledged his interest in the White House in early June, campaign advisers indicated he was likely to wait until early July to announce, after spending a month raising money and putting together an organization.
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Thats like accusing someone on the baseball field of playing hardball. duh~~!
I hear it here and all over the talk show guys and the news...somebody is playing politics, somebody is making this a political issue, someboby has a political agenda, etc.
He is going to announce as soon as Mario Cuomo announces
This is just to good to be true. I think September 28th. would be just as good as any.How about a big OCTOBER surprise.Thats it “01 October 2007”.........!!!!!!..........
I’m predicting that Fred’s Jump the Shark moment will be the day he finally announces.
As long as he wants! As long as he declares before the deadline next year he can do it any damn time he wants to! Personally I’m already sick and burned out of all the campaining. Running 2 years in advance? What crap!
I agree. I am tired of him getting celebrity treatment and think the media should simply ignore him unless or untill he announces. If he wants to be treated as a candidate he can officially join the campaign like everyone else. If he is too scared to debate why should he be taken seriously?
“Why all the angst and anxiety about Thompson’s behavior here?”
Not angst and anxiety but just wondering why you think it’s fair for the other hard-working dedicated GOP candidates to be out there campaigning their hearts out while Fred T sits around twiddling his thumbs, making a few appearances, giving a few speeches, etc., and AVOIDING all the hard stuff.
I think it stinks. Poop or get off the pot! I don’t think it’s fair to the other candidates. What on earth is Fred T waiting for? The other shoe to drop? It’s dang irritating and I feel like he’s just playing around.
If Fred T were a serious candidates - if his heart were really in it - would he be acting like this? Heck no!
Romney has been there all these months dedicating himself to the campaign and I respect him for it and Romney’s family is behind him 100%. Romney is gathering votes and respect the old fashioned way - he’s earning them. Go, Mitt!!
He did not. He said he had made a decision, but he wasn’t announcing anything. He said anyone watching would be able to see which way the wind is blowing.
What you are saying sounds like someone who complains because their team may have had the best record in baseball for any given year, but then they lose the World Series that year...it is as if their fans, think that they ‘deserve’ to win the World Series because of their record...well, things dont work that way....
Just because some of the other candidates are out there, and campaigning, that does not somehow make them more deserving...they have chosen to be out there, Fred has not...none of the other candidates was forced by anyone to be out there campaigning....they have all done it voluntarily....so I dont see what your particular beef is...
The other candidates could have taken the route that Fred is taking, but they have chosen not to....they have chosen to be out there, Fred has chosen to wait...
I am with a lot of others...this beginning to campaign so early, is really getting to burn me out as well....if Fred wants to wait, I am patient enough to wait as well, and see what he has to say...
But this is not a contest, where someone deserves to get the nomination, because he did more work, or was out there earlier...if people dont like what Mitt Romney has to say, then regardless of when he did or did not begin campaigning, they wont vote for him....if they like what Fred has to say, then they wont care that he joined the campaign trail, in back of the others...
I just dont see what it is, that is bothering you...it frankly makes no sense to me at all...I am patient, I can wait for any and all candidates to make their announcements when THEY are ready to do so, and not when someone else thinks they should do so...
Well, the other candidates put themselves out there for some major debates already. Where was Fred? You know it takes a lot of preparation and planning to get ready to debate at the national level. I was proud of all the ten men who put themselves through that ordeal. Where was Fred? Romney and the other guys are beating the bushes. Where is Fred?
I don’t think that’s funny, kicking Hillary in the head. It’s ugly.
A real leader knows what he wants. Apparently, Fred does not. Or he’s just messin’ with you.
Yes, it takes time and preparation and planning to be in a debate...but these other candidates did so willingly, and no one forced them...they could have just as easily decided to not be part of the debate....Fred chose not too...so those other ten guys put themselves through an ordeal...again, that was their very own choice...but that does not mean that only one of those ten deserves to get the nomination....
Many people are not even paying attention to any of these candidates or debates anyway, being that it is so far in advance of the election...lots of people just want to wait, until the time gets closer...
You really are acting as if only one of the ten who participated in the debates deserves to get the nomination...that kind of attitude, smells to me, of sour grapes...
Who knows, it may be that waiting so long will be to Freds detriment....I dont know, and neither do you...what I do know, is that all the other candidates have chosen to be on the campaign trail very early, and it was a free choice that they made...Fred seems to be his own man, making his own decisions, in his own good time, not my time, or your time...
So I just suggest we wait and see what happens....rewarding a candidate because he hit the campaign trail early, is just not right in my opinion...I care what the man says, not how early or how late he got onto the campaign trail...if Fred is going to run, he will announce in plenty of time, for folks to make up their minds up him, and his positions...
I don’t think that there is any “rule book” for how to run a political campaign. It seems to me that the best way to run it is the most effective and efficient way. Right now, it appears that Thompson (following advice I first heard suggested by Gingrich well over six months ago) has been slowly garnering support and avoiding the “voter fatigue” that is predictably going to affect people by not announcing early.
Only folks like you and I pay ANY real attention to presidential elections earlier than September or October. Most never vote in primaries, and those who do usually don’t pay attention until a few weeks before their primary. Gingrich and Thompson realized this, and have tuned their strategy to “letting the other fighters beat themselves to a bloody pulp”, and then they’ll take on the remaining, probably weakened, candidates. (I don’t think Mr.Newt will decide to run.)
This may not fit your definition of “fair”, but this is political “war”, and you know that anything is fair in war. And, by the way, though I’ve not spent a great deal of effort in comparing positions, etc, and won’t until October or so -— right now I am just as inclined to support Mitt as I am Fred. I really think that most of the candidates were following poor advice by starting their campaigns way, way too early. (Dick Morris bashers around here will certainly agree with me about this - as he has been pushing the “get in early” line... the “full employment for political advisors strategy”)
As far as whether “his heart is in it” ... I really am not enamoured of having a president whose lifelong dream was being president, and I believe that Thompson fits into the category of only running for president if he believes there is a problem with other candidates. Right now, it appears that Mitt’s major defect is being a likely problem with beating Hitlery due to real problems with some Christian voters due to his religion. I wish that weren’t the case, and I couldn’t disagree with them more strongly, but it certainly seems the case. Others in the GOP field have their defects as well.
I have no problems with Thompson, Gingrich, or John Swanson waiting until October or even December to announce their intentions of competing in the GOP primaries.
I would not be at all surprised if the eventual GOP candidate is NOT ANY of the ten (eleven including Thompson) ... and if someone completely out of the blue at this time were to be the GOP nominee. This “campaign” started way, way too early ... and it caused a lot of problems as a result, including the FR “purge” problem, which I believe is likely not to have happened in a more compressed campaign.
You could certainly be right. However, that remains to be seen.
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