Posted on 08/24/2007 9:37:08 PM PDT by Doofer
Fred Thompson's decision to announce his presidential candidacy with a video was suggested by Newt Gingrich, who is considered a possible contender himself.
Former House Speaker Gingrich has indicated he will run only if Thompson does not or his late-starting campaign crashes and burns. Actor-politician Thompson plans to follow the model of Democrat Hillary Clinton by launching his campaign with a video, followed by a fly-around to several cities.
Gingrich has expressed contempt for becoming one of many announced Republican candidates at crowded debates. Thompson has decided to be one of many at the Sept. 27 debate at Baltimore's Morgan State University.
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You know who I really like? Senator Inhofe out of Oklahoma. Also, here in Austin we have a pretty solid lieutenant gov, David Dewhurst.
There is a reason why our best and brightest don't want the job, and we need to discover this reason.
maybe she is his "muse"!
Actually, I'm quite certain that this bit of info came from the campaign. They want to compare Fred to Hillary to show that he is a front runner. Hillary's video was very innovative (supposedly) as a Sopranos sendoff.
What will Fred's be? If its straight to Cinemax, it might not be fit for children. How about Fred as Napoleon Dynamite? "Gosh! Democrats stay in the Senate and spend all our money on pork! Freakin' idiots! Tina, eat your ham!"
Actually, I doubt that you do, but it is certainly possible. I’ve read through his entire voting record- several times, have read probably 30-40% of his senate floor statements (skipping most of the investigation into slick willy’s and dems chinese money)and subscribe to teo media archive services.
What a bunch of horse feces.
You've heard wrong, apparently....
Because a nation of 300 million with an over-involved federal government is too big a unit to manage. It's hard to find a sincere candidate who appeals to that many people (or even a pluraility of the voter pool representing the 300 million) and satisfies them on the almost limitless number of issues they expect the federal government to address. So instead, we usually get power-hungry hucksters whose promises are tailored to the audience they're addressing at the moment, or we get political royalty who run for office because they've been raised to think that that's what's expected of them.
That's why we need a return to federalism. A system in which an office-holder can actually get something accomplished on behalf of a manageable number of people with geographic interests in common will help bring forth higher-quality candidates. And power distributed among many more hands will mitigate the damage that can be done by the bad ones.
Fred is the great right hope. He's my hope as well. Unfortunately he has no more political experience than Obama and no executive experience. His resume resembles Reagan only in its Hollywood and divorce dimensions.
Fred has neither been governor nor run in a difficult race. I hope he has the right stuff and we'll find out in less than six months.
GREAT post.
Thanks!
I know Inhoff. He's a decent man and a good conservative but he does not have the brain power to be president. Trust me.
You’re an embarrassment to conservatism and Free Republic.
ellery, excellent... but what is our path to this? How do we get there?
I actually find a trend, more a hunch because it is just a feeling, but I think he has turned more conservative the past few years leaving that "middle" for a trip closer to the edge. His Federalism bend is a good start.
You can't say either of us is ill informed I guess, and I sure as hell would rather disagree with someone who has done his homework than just casting about like a fool.
Still interesting about us humans, two people can look at the same info and get different reads.
Give him a break, he is at least an honest opponent...
“Former House Speaker Gingrich has indicated he will run only if Thompson does not....”
President Newt, yeah that could happen. But only if on a election day I vote, go to bed, and wake up the next morning on Bizzaro World
With Fred’s stronger Federalist takes, he may do it.
Has Delacroy supplied the touch-screen voting machines?
No. Running down a fellow conservative is not my idea of honest fair play. Especially when it borders on outright falsehoods.
FWIW.... pissant is very capable of defending himself.
I'm from Tennessee and I can ease your mind on one of the two points you bring up. In his first Senate election, he was 20% down and discarded the advice of his advisers to pull out a landslide. As for being a governor... no, but he has taken one down for corruption.
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