Posted on 10/25/2007 9:07:19 PM PDT by Calpernia
Thanks for the ping.
Fred is principled and disciplined and so is is wife.
They expect their staff to be the same. No wonder the indignant ones are EX staffers!
Like some wise freeper said recently, the flak is always heaviest near the target.
Ahh, Hunter’s Pissants are so amusing.
Excellent point. First Fred's too 'lazy' to care ~ now he's too disciplined!
I think Hunter might relish the same problems, polling numbers and publicity.
Calpernia, Fred has said that everything Jeri does for the campaign is at his behest.
She’s doing what he’s asked her to do, pure and simple.
its the MSM MEME.
The MSM is upset because the Thompson campaign is premised on bypassing the MSM.
Even with the journalistic culpable negligence in the story, it is clear this is not a catherine harris type of meltdown.
One also has to wonder how many of these people are moles.
IE can you really trust someone who works/ed for FNC with FNC pushing for Giuliani?
LOL... we ought'a wait for Patrick Ruffini's analysis before we jump to conclusions.
perhaps hunder is “the best choice”
but he is the WORST messenger for himself.
Hunter is a “might have been” candidate. It is the same Irey or Catherine Harris minor core. Both had enthusiastic supporters here on FR and both lost in a landslide.
At this point, Hunter’s only purpose is to help giuliani become the nominee and split conservatives.
If you took Fred's name off the ballot and put Jeri's in, she'd probably poll higher and raise more funds than Hunter.
Their goal couldn't possibly be to help Hunter. I believe Hunter would be thrilled to have such a disciplined wife helping with his campaign.
New Hampshire GOP had the Granite State's world on a string when wealthy businessman Craig Benson replaced the outgoing governor Jeanne Shaheen in one of the biggest blowouts in NH gubernatorial election history. He was viewed as a possible presidential candidate for 2008 because of his job as a governor (like Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, etc.), his money and charm and position as a "compassionate conservative"-type (he didn't scare off Democrats or moderates) and his geographical base that could expand the number of red states (like Giuliani is said to have). It all fell apart in a heap because of his personnel management.
The whole castle on a cloud crumbled because he wasn't good at dealing with staff and hiring good staff, etc. No one thought he did a bad job as governor, but he became unpopular because the people he surrounded himself with were not good choices-- they blundered and got into scandals and didn't have good relations with the legislature (one dominated by the GOP, BTW) and his re-election staff alienated supporters. Now, NH has become as blue as the rest of New England and it didn't have to be that way.
These things do matter.
..some trophies don’t like to sit on the mantle—they try to run things...
Fred in ‘08!!
Exactly. Go Thompson Go!
To defend Jeri here, she is a former GOP campaign official. She probably knows a little bit about this business.
Gotta love those empty suits that:
-are nipping at Rudy’s standing in the polls
-outline an amazing immigration reform plan
-understand conservatism
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Is that their goal? I wonder.
Jeri’s campaign activities are at Fred’s behest. She’s doing what he has asked her to do.
Duncan should be so lucky.
I wonder too. “;^(
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