Posted on 08/16/2007 9:30:03 AM PDT by Plutarch
Fred Thompson's window of opportunity could hardly have been wider. His opponents were fatally flawed in the eyes of the socially conservative Republican base; he's well-known, can raise money, and speaks language that both Republicans and independents leaning right can embrace. Even thinking of entering the race put him above double digits in polls.
But, thanks to a number of missteps and opportunities his pseudo-campaign has failed to capitalize on, Thompson's window is now closed...
The Law & Order star, running a "testing the waters" committee, raised approximately $3.46 million in June after launching June 4th. The campaign's goal was $5 million raised in the same period. Missed expectations are not enough to doom a campaign, but Thompson's media team did little to dampen expectations when they released the report on the last day of July, even though they had to know for weeks that the numbers were lower than expected....
...Fred Thompson had his chance to make a splashy entrance into the race. In fact, he has had many chances to do something to impress political watchers and his fans on the right. Time and again, though, he has missed those opportunities. Instead of managing expectations and raising impressive sums, his campaign reported disappointingly low numbers. Instead of hiring a staff and sticking with it, his campaign has already been beset by turnover. Instead of serving as the conservatives' best hope, they are forced to make excuses as to why his positions are acceptable to them.
Every day he remains out of the race is another day of organizing and winning support lost. At some point, time simply runs out. Thompson has simply waited too long to take advantage of the good will, good fortune and good position that awaited him once he entered the race.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Fred bump!
Hey, that’s great, childish fiction for adults, have you had anything published yet. I think you have a great future.
As a matter of fact I thought I would start in non fiction with a book on recognizing sarcasm in vasious forms...
Thank you, now if people will read that and shut up!
Your fairy tale is not as good as the one about Carl Rove.
What is so sad about voters who do nothing except watch fiction on tv can’t tell the difference, just like children.
The process is outta whack, when the race for POTUS 'starts' TWO YEARS before the end of his term!!
Hell, I will be inclined to vote for whomever ENTERS LAST from now on!!!
I thought it was great, better than a lot of what people post in the guise of the truth.
Dude, taking it easy on those Red Bulls.
Dude, take it easy on those Red Bulls. You are a few cans over your limit.
I say show the dang reruns of Fred and give equal time to the other candidates and certain politicians.
May I at this point inject some characters certain candidates could play for rebuttal stories:
Nancy Pelosi with cleavage, could play Lili Von Shtupp from Blazing Saddles.
Osama Obama could play Step and Fetch It from an old Will Rogers movie, The County Chairman.
Hillary could play Annie Wilkes from Misery.
Joe Biden could play Forest Gump.
John Edwards could play Navin Johnson A.K.A. the Jerk from The Jerk.
Dennis Kuchinich could play Ace Ventura from Ace Ventura Pet Detective.
Christopher Dodd could play John Blutto Blutarsky from Animal House.
Ted Kennedy could play Mongo from Blazing Saddles.
Hairy Reid could play Raymond Babbitt from Rain Man.
Al Sharpton could play Willy Wonka from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Jessie Jackson could play Pee Wee Herman from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.
Russ Feingold could play Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther.
John Kerry could play Maj. T. J. “King” Kong from Dr. Strangelove.
Al Gore could play Carl Spackler from Caddy Shack.
Bill Richardson could play Spanky from Our Gang Comedies.
Howard Dean could play Hanibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs.
John McCain could play Tommy DeVito from Good Fellas.
Mitt Romney could play Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles.
Duncan Hunter could play Rocky Balboa from Rocky.
Ron Paul could play Dr. Strangelove from Dr. Strangelove.
Rudy could play Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street.
Mike Huckabee could play Taggart from Blazing Saddles.
Wesley Clark could play Col. “Bat” Guanno from Dr. Strangelove.
Tom Tancredo could play Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean.
Please feel free to add or take away or make any flaming comments you may deem appropriate.
My apologies up front for any candidate or politician not listed here or any offense taken towards any living movie star, movie favorite, or role.
George Allen WILL BE the next POTUS in 2009. Bank on it. I don't care if he hasn't announced, once he gets in, he will be unstoppable. Anyone who doesn't get aboard the George Allen bandwagon RIGHT NOW is a fool. George doesn't even need to worry about being a Senator with no appeal outside of safe Republican states, cuz his opponent will be Hillary.
< /vast majority of freepers, c. 2006>
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/01/08/president.2000/poll/
Thinking ahead to the year 2000, if you were asked to vote for a Republican nominee for president today, which of the following Republicans would you vote for?
1# George W. Bush 38%
2# Elizabeth Dole 26%
3# Dan Quayle 7%
4# Steve Forbes 5%
5# John McCain 4%
6# John Kasich 2%
7# Gary Bauer 2%
8# Bob Smith 1%
I tell you, Liddy Dole's stragedy of not actually announcing and flirting with the Presidency is BRILLANT! She's polling 2nd nationally without actually being in the race or telling people what she stands for. People are fed up with all these chauvinistic men running everywhere. Everyone LOVES Liddy the second they meet her! She looks sooooooo good and saavy and talented on TV that she will win the nomination by acclaimation! She WILL BE our next President in November 2000. People will study President Liddy's amazing non-candidate winning stradegy for years in political textbooks.
Better update your tag line
Ouch, what a sorry bunch that was in 2000. We are complaining about the field we have now, but the field is much better than 2000's.
Tommy will be POTUS in 2009....
...oh...wait!...
Nevermind. LOL
Yeah, he waited too long. I am ready to vote TOMORROW so the fact that he has yet to officially declare up to this point has turned me off. Oh well, what to do NOW for the next 15 months??? I guess I’ll turn my attention to the daily Hillary-Obama catfights.
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