Get in my belly!
Romney has the softest support with 68% of his voters open to changing their minds. Every other candidate is between 47% and 57%. (translation: Mitt's 21% versus Fred is just name recognition from his big recent ad buy.
Huckabee has the highest unfavorables of the top 4. (My theory: the closer you get to Arkansas, the better the voters understand the Huckster and the less they like him)
Good poll news ping!
Get in my belly!
Everything going as planned. Let the other guys get well known first, then present the Conservative who has not waffled before...
Or pushed socialized Medicine...
Our selected Liberal criminal loving judges...
Or pushed polled himself...
Or is a nanny stater from Hope...
And...
I’m glad to read this good news! Thanks for posting. I made my 3rd donation to FRed yesterday. Gotta put your money where your mouth is.
Yea, but don’t you know, the Mittwits, Duncanistas, FoxNews and Michael Medved have all declared that his candidacy is dead!
I guess they forgot to tell the Republican Faithful in South Carolina.
Very Unfavorable:
* Ron Paul 25% * John McCain 12% * Mike Huckabee 9% * Rudy Giuliani 8% * Mitt Romney 8% * Fred Thompson 4%
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ahhh one poll ron paul is leading
In a state like SC, Fred supporters should be concerned that Rudy is so close and is only 4 points behind when you combine very favorable and somewhat favorable. SC is, really, Fred’s only hope of winning a primary before AL, CO, and maybe GA. He’s getting cleaned in IA and NH by Mitt, getting cleaned in FL by Rudy, then when Super Tuesday hits, Fred will be lucky to come in 3rd in NY, CA, PA, CT, NJ, and a couple of other big delegate states.
Good news for Thompson.
Rudy should endorse Fred now while his endorsement still means something. Pretty soon, Rudy will back in his love nest with Bernie and this campaign will be just an ugly memory.
"In my view, it is not a good idea to go into a [Contract With America] like what was organized by the Republican Party in Washington, laying out a whole series of things which the party said, 'These are the thing's we're going to do.' I think that's a mistake." - Source
"Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush." - Source
“I remember in my earliest political experience my father fighting to keep the John Birch Society from playing too strong a role in the Republican Party. He walked out of the Republican National Convention in 1964, when Barry Goldwater said, ‘Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.’ Because he saw that as a tacit approval of the effort the John Birch Society was making to influence the Republican Party. I think that extremists who would force their views on the party and try to shape the party are making a mistake." - Source
"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts. I support them. I won't chip away at them. I believe they help protect us and provide for our safety." - Source
"Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts. These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people." - Source
"I don't think [The Brady Bill's mandated waiting period] will have a massive effect on crime but I think it will have a positive effect." - Source
"I don't line up with the NRA." - Source
"I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." - Source
"I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have, since the time when my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, we should sustain and support it. I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice." - Source
"I think it would be a positive thing to have women have the choice of taking morning-after pills….I would favor having it available." - Source
"There will be children born to same-sex couples, and adopted by same-sax couples, and I believe that there should be rights and privileges associated with those unions and with the children that are part of those unions." - Source
"All people should be allowed to participate in the Boy Scouts regardless of their sexual orientation." - Source
Great news for Fred and for those of us who support him as we break for Thanksgiving. I really am not surprised.
Let’s remember to donate, as we can, some dollars for those ads [which seem to be working].
Go Fred!
And I could see that he was seriously thinking about re-thinking his first words about Thompson: "Ah, he's a phony ...." Romney's campaign lit sure isn't going to mention RomneyCare or the penalties individuals and businesses in MA are paying for NOT being able to go to nanny government with proof that they've been good little children and found health insurance. Huck's campaign lit sure isn't going to talk about his penchant for smoking bans in public and private places.
I just visited the website of Hugh Hewitt, who many (I'm one) have come to consider a Romney shill, and saw a post (I think our FRiend spacekicker hangs there occasionally, so he might have seen it too) about CFR and Romney. This one really got me -- the poster said that Romney not only supported the CFR concept in Massachusetts in I believe it was 1992, but he wanted to take it even further and regulate campaign expenditures as well!
Sentiments like "We Republicans should be focusing on Hillary, not tearing each other down!" sound noble, but in the primary season, they are actually words of chicken-hearted weakness. Right now, we must have the courage to do the dirty work hashing things out in pursuit of the best guy to represent the Republican party in the race against the Democrat presidential candidate, which may or may not be Hillary.
That necessarily entails "tearing down" Republicans who will be either too weak or too liberal. It's not pleasant, but somebody's got to do it and pretending otherwise is just that -- pretend.
It's time to get aggressive about enlightening fellow primary voters about the many faults of Romney as well as the true conservative record (not campaign promises, but record) of Thompson. None of the candidates is perfect, including Thompson. But he's obviously the closest to it especially when compared to the deeply flawed Giuliani and Romney.
The eye on the ball now: educate Republican primary voters about the THREE main guys: Thompson, Romney, and Giuliani, with a special focus on Romney because unlike either Rudy or Thompson, he is the most disingenuous in how he represents his past; uninformed people are gullible people, so the best way to get people beyond being gulled by the Ladies' Candidate Mitt is by informing them about Mitt's record. The RomneyCare thing alone should do it -- nationalized health care would be a guaranteed nightmare no matter whether it came from Republicans or Democrats. But if it's not enough, Romney's past is a target-rich environment on the 2nd amendment, normalizing homosexuality, tax-funded abortion for the poor (the primary consequence of retaining Roe V Wade), and even CFR, if Romney did indeed support a CFR-type move in MA.
Democrats should be of little concern during Republican primaries. The biggest concern should be revealing and comparing the flaws in the primary Republican candidates. Vote-splitting and pluralities are as much at work in the primaries as they are in a Presidential race with a third-party candidates, and must be considered accordingly.
This poll, if it means anything at all at this point in the process, only adds weight to my argument that Giuliani can’t win the south in the general election, and without the south the Republicans can’t win the presidency. I read and hear some people say that they don’t want Rudy for president but will vote for him in the primary anyway because he’s the only Repub who can beat Hillary. IMHO he’s the only leading Repub candidate who CAN’T beat Hillary, because a Repub can’t win a national election nowadays without carrying practically all of the south and I don’t believe Rudy can do that.