Oh, good Lord. {shakes head in frustration}
Fred is doing the right thing, waiting until all these so-called ‘3rd tier’ candidates are weeded out, which IMO is about 98% of them!! From all parties! Fred is doing things the right way, the way they used to be done, and he’ll get the job done as President, the way they used to be done. Enough already with this ‘instant gratification’ business. No need to jump into the pool yet, not while it’s full of boneheads who pee in the water! ;-)
All he’s done so far is help the RINOs in the race as people sit back and wait for him.
Oh well, he writes nice essays.
“Anthrax Scare?” Did you hit the wrong checkmark there?
Fred Thompson will be the next president of the United States. Rudy McRomney is far too liberal for the republican party and Mike Huckabee is for open borders...so who does that leave? Exactly!!
So did the author criticize John Kerry for declaring in September back in 2004?
We shall see.
With so many states moving up their primaries--as each fights and tries to outdo the other by being earlier--delaying any longer makes little sense. With the current earlier primary system in place--the nominee will be selected by February.
no, everyone else got in too early.
Reid Wilson Has Not Waited Long Enough.
Talk about jumping the gun.
We’re doooomed?
Gee—imagine you posting an article like this. Needless to say, I’m disregarding it.
Don’t you wish! LOL. There’s plenty of time. Patience Mr. Wilson. Patience.
I so can’t wait for all these pundits to be proven wrong and end up looking like fools when Fred takes the Republican nomination.....and the the Presidency. ;)
Now, in this day of instant communications and 10 second soundbites, it somehow takes longer to select candidates. Years longer, for some.
I'm sure that's obvious to some, but not to the vast majority of voters who don't pay any attention to politics, at least not until we are in the SAME YEAR as the election. Wouldn't it be a hoot if FDT waited until Labor Day to announce and then won the nomination and then became President!
Nationally, Fred’s tied for first place with Rudy (within the MOE). How could this be with him doing everything wrong?
I have been sitting here thinking that maybe they are right, maybe Fred is waiting too long. Maybe the delays are all based on false pretenses...
Certainly something is afoot beyond the headlines...
Then it hit me. Look at the timing...
Fred will announce the first week of September...
Karl Rove is leaving the end of August...
I felt it was too much of a coincidence, this has been almost too well played. So I finally figured it out.
Karl Rove is tired of being behind the scenes, but knows he is to divisive to mount a campaign as himself, so he is running..
As Fred Thompson...
The way I figure it Fred fell ill from his cancer some months ago and is being kept alive in a secret military hospital outside Washington DC. Karl knew this and saw his opportunity...
He has had stunt doubles appear as FDT in public, published articles and appear on radio.
All the while the evil genius has had his team of brilliant scientist who built the hurricane machine create the most incredible device ever made, a fully functional bio mechanical “Fred Thompson Suit” that Rove will ride in while campaigning and serving his term in the Whitehouse...
The technical issues that must of been encountered in building such a device easily explains the delays, but with the firm date of Rove's departure, it is obvious they have sorted out the technical issues and it is ready to go...
It is a brilliant plan and a wonderful achievement in Republican politics...
I salute you Mr. Rove...
er I mean "President Thompson"...
RCP gives FDT the spotlight! Could this be because FDT is favored by the Establishment? I mean bad coverage is better than no coverage, and the MSM been covering FDT for months now to the exclusion of many of those actually declared and running. The MSM have even been kind to him with many cream puff interviews! An arsenal of special interest groups await the big day rumored to be upcoming.
No wonder FDT is in no hurry!
I don’t know who will win the primary.
But I know no window is closed on Fred. Until they show me primary voters with a candidate polling 50% of the vote and the undecided’s dramatically decreased? Yeah, not buying it. The base still hasn’t settled on anyone.
What I DO know is that no one is happy. Unless that changes, it doesn’t matter who wins the primary.
LOL...now that's what I call wishfull thinking!
I agree with the writer. In the early summer, Fred had the buzz because he was “none of the above” in the Rudy McRomney suckfest. That was the time to seize the momentum and get into the race. Like Mario Cuomo and Colin Powell, Thompson has sat on the sidelines so long that Republicans are now looking elsewhere - at Huckabee, at Hunter, at Paul, etc.
A great candidate can’t be a great leader if he never gets onto the field. I think Fred may be rethinking whether he even wants the job. You can’t have a winning candidate who doesn’t have the conviction to run. That’s what all this indecision says to me. Fred can talk a good game but he doesn’t have the stones to jump in.
There’s plenty of time yet for Fred to jump in - what’s the rush?