Posted on 12/30/2007 5:34:29 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Joe Biden, D-Del.; former GOP presidential candidate Steve Forbes; Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; former Sens. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., Tim Hutchinson, R-Ark., and Jim Talent, R-Mo.; former Defense Secretary William Cohen.
And if you don’t think that’s going to send the media into even greater than usual overdrive to tear apart and make issue of the GOP candidate, then I think you haven’t really paid attention to modern American politics.
Look at what they have been able to spin about Fred’s ‘not wanting the job’ and ‘not having fire in the belly’, and just imagine what they can do with something substantial.
They’ll have an embarrassment of riches to work with with Mitt, Huck, or Rudy. Their approach to McCain may be more interesting, because their habit of pumping him up is so long-held; and with Fred because, as we’ve seen so far they pretty much have had to fabricate ad hominem issues with him, but that’s still what they’ll be about.
I guess, only time will tell.
But, he (W) won anyway. Take heart!
Not a liberal, but a democrat worked with W since he was a governor. There is NO comparison between him & Karen Hanretty. Proof, as they say is in History.
Yes, anita, that’s actually my greatest concern about Fred as a president. I have no doubt but that he’d have the cajones to make some John Bolton-esque appointments, but I have the concern that, like W, he might be too collegial and collaborative in putting ‘moderates’ on his executive team as well.
Sounds like it.
Dana Milbank just told Howie Kurtz that journalists dislike Hillary Clinton. They prefer Obama which explains the negative coverage she is getting in Iowa.
George Washington did not lust for power either.
I want someone who recognizes the problems that exist now... vows to change them to the ability they can and then will get out of public life having served their duty.
What an interesting comment by Milbank; I’m watching the Stepphie/Clinton “interview” and there is certainly no hostility there. The media love the clinton’s...that or they are afraid to death of them.
hellary wasn’t the only one with no security clearance. How many staffers could they not get that clearance for?
It is my opinion that he means that he does not want the job enough to tell the voters what they wish to hear...based on polling data.... He is saying he is NOT a Clinton.
Don't forget, at the Iowa caucuses the people have to group themselves according to candidate. It will be REALLY interesting to see this, if C-SPAN televises one. We will get to see what Obama supporters, Edwards supporters, and HIllary supporters look like!
Sometimes I wonder if Free Republic is good for me!!
I come on here and think Fred is extremely popular and sure to win.
In the rest of the world (full of clueless idiots, no doubt) he doesn’t seem to be on the radar.
Are we right, as usual, or are we kidding ourselves in hopes getting a genuine conservative?
“Proof, as they say is in History.”
In other words, you have the certitude of one who evaluated W’s campaign operatives by looking in the rear view mirror.
If campaigns were decided on the issues and records, this race would be between Thompson and Duncan Hunter right now.
The fact of the matter is that campaigning is a part of the race, whether it is right or wrong. Not all of us vet the candidates as we should and there are too many people who vote for the best campaigner (hence why we got stuck with Spitzer in a landslide up here in ‘06).
Hunter’s problem is that he’s had to run a Presidential campaign with a congressional campaign’s budget and its corresponding name recognition.
Thompson has been surrounding himself with some suspect people (Howard Baker, Spencer Abraham, etc.) and I think it has hurt him.
I won’t buy TWS because of bill being a mccainiac, and Fred is too ‘inside the Beltway’ for me.
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