Thompson may as well be the phony candidate. Here we have Rudy the frontrunner and Thompson bashes Romney but doesnt lay a glove on Rudy. Why is that? Thompson's real chances are in SC and FL, yet he leaves FL open for Rudy. And is suspiciously low-key and running a campaign that is suspiciously inept at taking enough advantage of openings to win ...just enough to get Rudy nominated.
“I’m on the permanent executive committee of the Arlington Group, which was formed to push for the Federal Marriage Amendment. We’ve got [Fred] Thompson who says he can’t support that. I can’t push this for the past several years and then say, ‘oh, that’s not so important.’ … I’ve been working with candidates for close to fifty years I recognize candidates with fire in the belly. I’ve got to tell you, I do not think Thompson really wants to be elected that badly.”
No I did not.
I think a 50-year-running conservative activist might have a good sense of who's real and who's not.
He's not much of a conservative if he agrees with Kucinich and Paul about the Battle of Iraq. He sounds quite nuts, whatever he might have done before this.
"Fire in the belly" is the oldest, most cliched, most hackneyed criticism out there. It's a substitute for actual intellectual consideration.
Meanwhile, Willard Myth Romney is still a fraud.
One of Thompson's northern California co-chairs donated over $4000 to Rudy a few months ago. No donations listed to Thompson. Unless she has a twin with her unusual name and residence it is a mystery.
Interesting observation.
Fred hasn’t left Rudy alone. He took him head-on in the last debate.
I don’t think he is secretly (subliminally) shilling for Rudy.