What is most amazing is how many Freepers have fallen head over heels for Fred. What little of Fred’s Senate career I do remember, is that he was basically to John McCain what Lindsay Graham is now. McCain’s lap dog.
But he’s an actor so he must be another Reagen I guess.
I will wait to hear more specifics from Fred. But unlike others, I’ve hardly been impressed with what I’ve heard so far.
Our choices suck.
Considering who else is running, I'm amazed more haven't done so. Liberals, flip-floppers and losers all (even if I like some of them, theyre going nowhere).
But I do think his supporters are projecting values and policy positions on to him that he doesn't necessarily hold.
They're posting Fred quotes from "Hunt for Red October", for heaven's sake, as if Admiral Painter were real and were running for President.
Time will tell.
I’ve seen Fred—twice. I was impressed and his performance on FOX and Friends the day after Des Moines was stellar.
Many are projecting what they want Fred to be rather than what Fred is/was.
I’m with you... a lot of primarily social conservatives have projected a whole lot of stuff onto Thompson that just isn’t there. He’s the Republican version of Obama this election.
The “Great White Hope”...
We’ll see, but I haven’t seen anything out of Thompson I find impressive at all. He’s flubbed and incredibly softball question regarding his activities and abortion advocation back when he was an attorney. He’s only spoken to incredibly partisan crowds, and when he does he has just completely pandered to them.. he says what they want to hear. I have not seen anything out of the Thompson race yet that impresses me, and I think a lot of folks who are jumping on this bandwagon are doing so out of what they HOPE and WANT him to be.. not out of what he is.
Fred’s popularity is most informative about the dearth of other candidates...not so much about him, as nobody knows anything much about him.
Anybody new could show up, imo, and they’d do well just because people are optimistic and assume that anybody is likely to be better than the pro-pols and good hair idiots on both sides that they already know all too well.
I saw Lindsay Graham on MSNBC or C-Span or some such, and was sickened by his treatment of General Petraeus. He may as well be a Democrat.
Then you haven’t been listening.