Posted on 12/12/2007 2:30:09 PM PST by JRochelle
First, let me say that this was by far the worst debate yet. The questions were not only skewed to the left, not only almost entirely neglected foreign policy, but they were so broad as to allow the candidates to fall back on talking points. Also, there was no room for back and forth between the candidates. Absolutely awful.
With that said, Fred Thompson was the only candidate who stood out. He was funny, charming, and peppy. Here was a guy who wasn't afraid to speak hard truths, and who displayed knowledge of the policy issues--especially on entitlements. But the moment of the debate, the moment that will be talked about should he defy expectations and go on to win the nomination, was when he refused to raise his hand at the behest of the moderator. This demonstrated conviction, showed he was able to stand up for his principles, that he was a man who valued substance, a leader rather than a follower, and somebody who is running a different kind of campaign. In short, today Thompson was everything that conservatives had hoped they'd be getting when he announced his candidacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
sorry quad post...phone line problem.
Lenny Dykstra asked the stupid token global warming question....I loved it when Fred told her in no uncertain terms “no more show of hands”. No more dog and pony show.
If you don’t give me one minute I’m not answering. F you.
I thought Fox was behind Guiliani?
FredHead BUMP!
“Plus that SPEECH he gave. It was just a ruse. No one was slamming him for his religion before it.”
You’re *kidding* me. You’ve been hiding under a rock during all those free-for-all threads with *900* replies?? ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917911/posts
... full of fun stuff like: “And for those of who keep saying, “I don’t have a problem with his Mormonism,” may I remind you that a number of LDS leaders have gone on record to say they consider themselves “gods-in-embryo”.”
And stuff like “Comment #454 Removed by Moderator”
And FR is just one forum. There’s been enough of a ‘whisper campaign’ in emails, enough of it popping up in media and in blogs to ‘feed the trolls’ so to speak. Not just Huckabee disingenuously throwing out an ‘innocent’ question to a reporter.
“”That wasn’t the worst debate of this primary season. That was the worst debate in history going back to the Greek Era”. Which caused the rest of the panel to burst out laughing.”
I could only watch five minutes of it. OMG, that moderator was awful.
Fred Wins, Iowa Loses
[Why Carolyn Washburn should keep her day job]
The Weekly Standard | Dec. 12, 2007 | by Dean Barnett
Posted on 12/12/2007 6:09:32 PM PST by jdm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938691/posts
Republican candidates keep it civil;
Thompson does self the most good
The Oshkosh Northwestern | December 12, 2007
David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register
Posted on 12/12/2007 10:11:54 PM EST by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1938714/posts
Thank Eureka. Glad you agreed. Take care...
The silence Drudge is giving about this debate is a little upsetting too.
LOL, seemed like it didn’t it.
Yes, but Fred’s response to that was perfect...saying he’d like to be in Mitt’s position or something like that.
Pretty cool huh.
I agree. Thanks UpCountry Miss.
Yes he was.
Thanks Walrus. Glad to hear it.
“I saw two people (or three) saying he was too slippery, like a salesman.”
The *discerning* ones would be the ones saying that about Mike Huckabee, the slickest thing out of Arkansas since Bill Clinton.
Huckabee’s ‘innocent’ questions to hit at Mitt, flipflops on Cuba and immigration, his dancing with NEA and IAM unions while calling himself genuine conservative, and his Clintonesque dissembling on the Dumond scandal and his tax-and-spend record (see, I just *had* to raise taxes, they made me do it, I didn’t want to, see, but they made me), all add up to ONE HECK of a Snake Oil Salesman.
That almost sounds like begrudging agreement. Thanks Huck. You take care. Merry Christmas to you.
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