Posted on 08/17/2007 9:47:53 AM PDT by SmithL
IN JUST two weeks, Fred Thompson will finally announce his formal entry into the 2008 presidential race and instantly become the biggest Republican threat to Rudy Giuliani.
The long-anticipated move by the former "Law and Order" star begins today with his arrival at the Iowa State Fair, where he will face his first real test before actual voters. Giuliani still holds a 10-point advantage over him in national polls, according to RealClearPolitics, but Thompson has seen his own support steadily grow while Giuliani's slowly erodes, from a high of nearly 40 percent earlier this year to below 30 percent now.
The biggest question for Republicans frustrated with the field is whether Thompson has waited so long to enter the race that he's blown any chance of capturing the nomination.
In the months since he began openly flirting with the idea, Thompson's fund-raising has disappointed supporters, he's burned through staff, and a negative story line about his wife, Jeri, meddling with the staff has begun to dog the campaign.
Yet he remains in the strongest position to pick off Giuliani, and hopes to become the real straight talker with big, gutsy ideas whose conservative credentials are beyond reproach.
Thompson's biggest gift over the last few months has been the collapse of Arizona Sen. John McCain's campaign. Once the presumed favorite, McCain is skidding barely above single digits in national polls.
Traditional political observers, of course, go berserk if you consider national polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If they are seasoned with a little pepper or salt, they will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter. /swift
And where do you think we get out inspiration for some of the “worst remarks you have seen” I am good but even I can’t make up some of the crap I have seen . Wedding Flowers, CFR (pick one), old, lazy, dead, dying, womanizer, those were not made up from our side, but we do love them so...
He tosses them as feed into his garden of giant carnivorous flowers
Thanks. I think. :p
It was at least partially tongue-in-cheek, you know.
And of course, I MEANT house votes.
PTTTHHHHH!!!! :)
SHUSH!! He’s in the witness protection program.
Loose lips sink ships!!
"this so-called appearance of indecision" does not bode well with those who have already chosen other candidates... to people like me, he doesn't appear to be indecisive at all... in fact, he seems very decisive... he hasn't been shaken by all the "get in now or forget it" crowd... i see that he is quite decisive, and sticks to his guns...
“I’d also be thrilled if Maria Sharapova and Scarlett Johansen showed up at my door asking for a manage-a-trois, which is about as likely to happen. “
LOL! If they did, do you think you could “manage” a ménage à trois?
Poor thing.
Ah, he's a n00b, prolly all of 13 years old. Hasn't been exposed to the real world, and his skin is thin, and his jammies are cotton, not Nomex, let alone Asbestos.
We have to ween these kids into adult arguments/discussions.
I don’t know if I could handle Maria even by herself. She’s an Amazon to be sure.
Chuckie can cry up a storm if I remember right!!!
I’ll see your 50.00 and raise you 250.00!
Hang on—read carefully. You’re betting that he’ll declare by Aug. 31.
And that’s why you troll FRed threads?
Grade Inflation?
Then tell me why. I got an “A” in Reasoning 101 in college,
They felt sorry for you after you failed Logic 101?
Better watch it, take on jmyrlefuller and the Pooh Pooh may hit the fan...
How about MittFits instead? I've seen a lot of those from women who LOVE Mitt.
Doesn't seem to matter to them that he has flipped on so many issues very recently. Or that he governed (as one would expect) to the left in Massachusetts.
So it looks like their underlying subtext is, 'How could we be for Fred? OOO!! (Rhymes with 'new'.) Fred's not nearly so h-a-n-d-s-o-m-e or c-h-a-r-m-i-n-g as Mitt.'
That’s what HE thinks. I’m betting on this: “50 bucks says he will not announce.” Notice the period.
He, then, states “This two week date will roll past just like the rest of the dates he was suppost to announce”.
HIS terms are undefined and open ended.
If FRed announces, he owes me.
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