[Kevmo]

Fred’s going to be our next President,
***Then if your crystal ball is working, you could make a 40X return on your money, because they will sell you that contract at $2.50 right now. The contract for President Clinton [barf] is currently at 46.7 so you could make even more money by shorting that one.

2008.PRES.THOMPSON(F)
Fred Thompson to win 2008 US Presidential Election
2.5 2.6 2.5 16606 -0.1
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/

[Slip18]

I don’t have a crystal ball, nor would it work with voters. Your Intrade is crap, and you should know it.

[Servant of the Cross]

I had the thought last night that Rudy has staffers who are on FR daily to give him updates on the dialogue within the conservative community on the ability to coalesce around the anti-Rudy conservative candidate. I am sure that they are having a great laugh at the present state of acrimony (Mitt vs Fred), and particularly the Thompson vs. Hunter stuff, and the arguing over intrade stats. How serious is that from a conservative site in the midst of very serious times?

IMHO, there needs to be one anti-Rudy candidate standing (sooner, rather than too late) and it will either be Mitt (because FR is a small subset of the general Republican voting public who are not as aware of the issues or past positions of the candidates) or Fred.

President Bush received 62,040,610 votes in the 2004 Presidential election. Duncan Hunter has 1,126 votes to Fred's 1,362 on the current FR poll. If DH doesn't win here, he certainly won't win out there. If your choice is between Rudy, Mitt and Fred, how do you vote?