Posted on 09/30/2007 10:17:18 PM PDT by RWR8189
Conventional wisdom is hardening around the proposition that Fred Dalton Thompson is too lazy, ill-prepared, tired, old, lackluster, inexperienced, inconsistent and bald to make a successful run for President.
Of course, conventional wisdom rarely gets anything right. When it does, it's only by accident.
In this case conventional wisdom is not just wrong but comically so. Thompson will win the Republican nomination for two reasons. First, he's a very impressive candidate. Second, there's no realistic alternative. He will win the general election for the same two reasons.
Let's start by considering Thompson's Republican competition.
John McCain's candidacy may not be dead, but then again, neither is Ariel Sharon. McCain has been at war with the Republican Party for a decade. The idea that he could win the GOP's presidential nomination was never more than a fantasy. His presence in the race will soon become an embarrassment, if it isn't one already.
Mitt Romney oscillates between the low teens and single digits in national polls. He does better in Iowa and New Hampshire where he has spent a great deal of time and money in the hope that he can ride a wave of early momentum to victory. It won't happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
NR had this article on FT today, about his Senate career.
A terrific point!
“Conventional wisdom is hardening around the proposition that Fred Dalton Thompson is too lazy, ill-prepared, tired, old, lackluster, inexperienced, inconsistent and bald to make a successful run for President.”
You forgot he also has a learning and memory problem.
You forgot he also has a learning and memory problem.
Oh yes, and more than anything else, he has questionable friends and a sleaze for a mentor (Howard Baker).
Oh wow, I remember that guy! He was just terrific in laying out the facts and legalities of the entire obstruction issue in a way that made it completely understandable for we who are not lawyers.
*snort* I laughed out loud at that line! Not to mention, he is right.
Based on his performance at the Tavis Smiley debate, Huckabee is no conservative. He is a pandering gas bag.
Today ‘Bald’ is the new do, it’s in vogue.
Heh, great cartoon!
You’re right;)
IMO he was the best Rush caller ever. Mulhern also wrote some great pieces for Washington Weekly before it disappeared, and I read that he was once a regular on a west coast talk show. He is still not quite in the front ranks of conservative punditry, perhaps because his law practice gets in the way.
I did not know until now that he posts regularly at American Thinker.
Do what?
Huckabee is a nanny-stater. He wants a national indoor smoking ban, fer cryin' out loud. Not only is that not the government's business to begin with, but it's definitely not the federal government's business!
LOL, yeah right. Fred, unlike Mitt, doesn't need to have his batteries replaced from time to time.
I have a feeling Hillary would run circles around Thompson in a debate...He just doesn’t seem to be quick enough on his feet.
I’ll withhold final judgment until I see a few of his debate performances...
In no scenario does Huckabee either win the nomination or the general.
I agree with you. None of the candidates who has a real chance of getting the nomination is really appealing, and worse, I fear none of them can beat HildaBeast.
You are probably right. Hillary is wicked, but articulate. She would make Fred Thompson look like a bumbling old fool. He already looks like he’s on his last leg.
“John McCain’s candidacy may not be dead, but then again, neither is Ariel Sharon.”
Oh boy, that’s at the same time the funniest and most macabre thing I’ve heard in at least a year.
“Mitt is it.”
Mitt has no chance because:
1) he is a flip flopper
2) too many evangelicals won’t support a Mormon (question: how many Spirit Children does Mitt plan to have? Kaboom, there goes the campaign.)
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