Posted on 09/29/2007 11:06:18 PM PDT by Doofer
Since when was Miss Hitlery not ugly? Her face would make a train take a dirt road.
And her laugh makes cats cover their ears.
Exactly!!
It makes no sense to throw the traditional base (1/3 of the Party) 'under the bus' to nominate a LIBERAL. That is just crazy.
Fred would be a great consensus candidate that would UNITE the Party, and ENERGIZE the base--without which, the Democrats will win.
Rudy Giuliani (R) vs. Hillary Clinton (D)
RCP Average Clinton +5.0%
I’ll take Fred any day as the one who can beat her.
(Besides, if Rudy beat Hillary, who could tell the difference?)
Rudy could have done his Party, his state and his country a great service by removing her from the Senate less than a year ago. He would have kept control of the Senate and seriously damaged her Presidential ambitions in the liberal state that knows him best and loves him.
He can spare us his pathetic LIBERAL efforts now.
I agree, Fred`s ugly and old. Reagan was just old. But like Reagan, Fred is a conservative, with intellect, veracity, integrity and gravitas.
The first real test for Fred is raising enough money to keep his campaign alive. Knocking off Rooty comes second. The general election is 13 months away. Polls showing Hillary beating Fred are worthless at this point.
Shhhhh...... The Mittwits and Rudites have to have their illusions.
To which I would add, . . .and wit. From his 'I know what I'm going to do' instantaneous reaction to the odious Michael Moore's debate challenge, that gave us the self-scripted 38 second spot, to his remark about having rejoined the ranks of the politicians at his NRA speech, to his 'you just summed up my whole speech' reply on the stump, Fred has been the only candidate to deploy humor and irony the way Reagan used to.
Oddly, this should not be underestimated: the left takes itself so d*amned seriously that they by and large can't deploy wit. And, the worse for them, they've all bought into the Dick Morris model of parsing every sentence to make sure it appeals to some constitutent group, so even if one of them was capable of being witty, they wouldn't dare. Reagan always connected with the vast majority of Americans whenever he used his sense of humor, and I think Thompson will (is) do(ing) the same.
Copy & paste and send to all of the chattering class.
The nomination will not come down to Thompson and Romney. By trying to position himself as the conservative alternative, the whole raison d’etre of Romney’s candidacy began to unravel when Thompson emerged and finally collapsed (along with his poll numbers)when Fred entered the race. An energizer bunny does not win political campaigns. Otherwise, George H.W. Bush would surely have defeated Reagan for the 1980 nomination, being a much younger and (by all printed and reported accounts) a more energetic candidate. And Jimmy Carter, who was more familiar with the minutiae of government than Reagan and far more capable of detailed policy discussions, would have crushed the Gipper in the general. Neither happened. And the result will be the same for many of the same reasons. The race will boil down to Thompson (the conservative) and Guiliani (the liberal). It doesn’t take a Phi Beta Kappa key to discern who wins that contest in a Republican primary.
I think you set up a standard that no one could meet. You say that Thompson has not shown “the spark with which he can free us of the crushing burden of Iraq.” You also set an high mark that if Thompson does not demonstrate, in advance of taking office, a “persona” akin to Lincoln, Reagan, and FDR, the Republican party is destined to lose the 2008 election. My goodness, neither Lincoln, Reagan nor FDR could have cleared such a hurdle BEFORE taking office.
And, are Republican prospects really as dim as you suggest? I think not, and you have cited no historical evidence to suggest they are. Lincoln was reelected in the middle of a Civil War. Iraq is a brushfire in comparison. Roosevelt was re-elected by a huge landlslide in 1936, even though the Depression was no better than in 1932. Do you deny that, had Johnson run in 1968, he would have defeated Nixon, even though we were in the midst of a very unpopular, and much larger war?
And, contrary to your hypothesis, Iraq is not the only issue, perhaps less important than ever, all the major candidates having agreed that troops will be there until 2013 at least. The other issues of high taxation, government spending and secure borders are very important, as are judicial nominations, right to life and the 2nd Amendment. The Republican coalition has not disappeared; it is merely leaderless at this point. There is no great cry for 12 point plans or energizer bunnies to hold umpteen events per day, but for a return to the principles that won 44 states in 1980 and 49 in 1984. That coalition has been tattered by 20 years of Bush-Dole rule of the Republican party, but it can be reassembled. As I look about the horizon, the only candidate who can credibly reassemble it is Fred Thompson. After 20 years in the wilderness, the message has once again found a messenger.
Romney's struggle to connect with voters suggests that he did. Sorry Governor, the voters just don't warm to guys who are classically handsome, athletic, rich , intelligent, decent, and also ambitious enough to be supple about their political principles. You could try taking a personal interest in some interns, but that probably won't work for a Republican.
That is actually a shrewd observation. It was some of the hokier and sleazier things about Clinton that "humanized" him for some people.
But on the whole, Mulhern does a better job tearing down the other guys than making a good case for his own.
In that photo, Fred looks like a nice, doting GRANDFATHER of two small children with their mommy.
I would be a Hunter man except that I know he can't win the nomination, much less the general election. But I believe Fred is a genuine conservative even though based on his devotion to federalism he takes some positions that I don't agree with such as opposition to a marriage amendment.
Unless some miracle occurs in Hunter's campaign I will vote for Fred in the primary. But if Rudy comes out of the convention as the GOP nominee next year I will vote 3rd party in the general election for the first time in my 50 years and 13 national elections of voting a straight Republican ticket. Not only is Rudy a confirmed liberal RINO of the worst kind, I have a visceral dislike for the man that I can't explain but is very real nonetheless.
If I didn’t know you are a FReeper, I’d believe from your comment that you are a half-witted, drooling moron. Good thing you’re a FReeper, right?
Best article yet - spot on. We want a leader, not an administrator
Just observing the FACT that people shouldn't be having small "children" when they're in their mid 60s. It's cruel to the children and hurts the adults ablity to raise them as they age. How can we as a soecity hypocritically bash teens for having babies and being unprepared to raise them when we tolerate people of retirement age having children? So we say people are too young to have kids but you're never too old? Bull. Obviously Fred doesn't believe in "traditional" family values.
I really don't think the kids look forward to visiting daddy in the nursing home by the time they're old enough to enter college.
You know, if this quarter is any indication, Thompson most definitely EXCEEDS the dollar power of BOTH Romney and Guiliani.
8,000,000 in 20 days vs. 10,000,000 in 90.
You do the math.
He trounced them in the money department.
Have you ever really taken a good look at Guiliani?
How about that Lisp of his?
And that cross-dressing fetish of his?
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