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Backers want Thompson in White House race
Reuters ^
| Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:21PM EDT
| Steve Holland
Posted on 07/31/2007 10:49:25 AM PDT by SunStar
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posted on
07/31/2007 10:49:28 AM PDT
by
SunStar
To: SunStar
Don’t tarry, Fred. You need to get into this...and soon.
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posted on
07/31/2007 10:52:15 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: SunStar
September's soon enough. Go at your own pace FDT!
To: SunStar
The dog days of August start tomorrow. Nothing will be coming from the unofficial Thompson campaign until September. Far as I can tell, FredT is on schedule. Without announcing his intentions FredT has significantly cut into Rooty`s support and raised $3.4 million in his first unofficial month of testing the waters.
The RudyBoosters are running scared!
GO FRed GO!
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posted on
07/31/2007 10:56:06 AM PDT
by
Reagan Man
(FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
To: SunStar
I like the Fred Thompson is flying in the face of conventional wisdom! He’s showing with his actions that he’s going to run HIS race, HIS way and not be dictated to by the MSM or the political powers-that-be. Maybe his feeling is that if he can’t get the nomination HIS way then he doesn’t need it?
To: SunStar
...Thompson's testing-the-waters phase has gone far beyond his original plans for a July 4 announcement...That was a rumor.
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posted on
07/31/2007 10:58:32 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Just say no to Rudy McRomney.)
To: SunStar
Wow...backers, financial and otherwise, want their chosen candidate to actually get into the compaign for the office they’re backing him for?
Whodathunkit?
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posted on
07/31/2007 10:59:10 AM PDT
by
ElectricStrawberry
(1/27 Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
To: SunStar
...aised more than $3.4 million in June -- less than the predicted $5 million -- ...Predicted?
They said they set that goal, but did it rise to the level of a prediction?
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:00:47 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Just say no to Rudy McRomney.)
To: jellybean; girlangler; KoRn; Shortstop7; Lunatic Fringe; Darnright; babygene; pitbully; granite; ...
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:03:43 AM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Of the potential GOP front runners, FT has one of the better records on immigration.- NumbersUSA)
To: agere_contra
All the free publicity for Fred due to this clever tactic of not jumping headlong into the 12 man mud-wrestle-— priceless..
10
posted on
07/31/2007 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
Weeedley
(Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.)
To: ElectricStrawberry
This is so silly. Does the electorate actually know what this guy thinks are do we just go for looks. I see people define him the way they want him to believe and then say they will support the guy they defined. We did that with Bush.
He was a big Senate supporter of John McCain. It will be a huge hurdle for him to get over and I’m not going to do it for him.
To: SunStar
I think he’s playing this just right for the time being.
This whole ‘get in the race before its too late!’ stuff is coming from some political junkies here at FR that keep forgetting the campaign shouldn’t have started yet.
Outside of us (political junkies) and the political talks show, the VOTERS aren’t paying any attention. And they won’t for several months yet.
There will be plenty of cash when the time comes, just like always. And it will favor the party of small business, the GOP, as always.
I don’t know if Thompson is the ‘end all’ to the primaries, again its simply way too early. But he is scoring points with me for the simple reason he isn’t letting the heads of the RNC nor the DNC dictate his ‘schedule’.
That alone shows a nice independent streak, and a refreshing ‘new viewpoint’ especially compared to the Rudy McRomney types we’ve been watching - because there isn’t much else to do politically, for the past few months.
Take the time you need, Fred Thompson. So far, your political instincts are serving you very well indeed.
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:05:59 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: Dutch Tulip
Does the electorate actually know what this guy thinks are do we just go for looks This guy's been putting out essays on pretty much every issue out there on his website, describing in plain spoken terms his political views.
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:07:44 AM PDT
by
SunStar
(Democrats piss me off!)
To: Dutch Tulip
It will be a huge hurdle for him to get over and Im not going to do it for him.
Who you going to support once that Paul fellar shuts down his candidacy?......
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:12:09 AM PDT
by
deport
( Cue Spooky Music...)
To: SunStar
Excerpt:Tennessee Republican Rep. Zach Wamp, a key supporter of the 6-foot-6 conservative many Republicans are hoping will fill a void, said a September announcement speech by Thompson would be fine, but that the former U.S. senator from Tennessee needs to definitively say in August that he is a candidate. He said Thompson is "approaching the apex of the benefits of being a noncandidate." "His strategy and the use of noncandidate status has worked very much to his advantage to this point," Wamp said. "I believe we're approaching the point at which he needs to be a candidate -- I mean full-blown, 'I am running for president,' no holds barred."
Wamp wasn't quoted as saying "August".
To: SunStar
"I've got horses in the gate like the Kentucky Derby and they've been there for a while. Horses in the gate are restless creatures. They've been stammerin' and snortin' and I don't want them spittin'," Wamp said.
Wamp sounds a lot like Fred here don't you think?
To: SunStar
Either get in or get out. Its not a personal criticism but a candidate's supporters needs to know if he's really in to run the race.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:15:07 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Dutch Tulip
Other than McCain/Feingold, Thompson has been rock solid. Since that vote, he has backed away, said he was wrong, and explained his main reason for supporting was to increase donation limits.
It is his one weakness, unlike other candidates like Rudy, Paulie, Mitty, and Johnnie who all have more weaknesses than Tyson has illegal workers.
I would suggest checking imwithfred.com for videos and papers on his stand on all the issues.
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:15:35 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(Ron Paul is as much of a Constitutionalist as Fred Phelps is a Christian)
To: SunStar
Love the spin.
Fred’s not late, the others just bought in to the “too soon toast” (A division of Bush Derangement Syndrome, Inc.) media hype.
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:19:53 AM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: Dutch Tulip
Co-sponsoring the theft of 1A rights with McCain is THE issue......then explaining it away as an “oops, shouldn’t have done that....here’s the reason why I co-sponsored and then voted for the theft of your 1A rights”.
Some care about infringements on rights.
Some don’t, so long as it’s explained away afterwards.
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posted on
07/31/2007 11:29:53 AM PDT
by
ElectricStrawberry
(1/27 Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
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