It is because of his Campaign Team(& inspite of his team), Fred is where he is today. These ballot things are to be looked after by his team, not by himself - which is impossible.
W’s ad guru was (is) also a liberal.
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.
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.
Hanretty’s not a liberal, just not a staunch conservative either. And many conservatives have criticized GWB, and rightly so, on immigration, spending and big government.
“It is because of his Campaign Team(& inspite of his team), Fred is where he is today.”
I have not ‘enjoyed’, as the media has, the circus that has been made of the campaign, between the Republicans. The media has pitted each against the other and covered/reported on the R’s differently than they do the D’s. At the same time, it has been very enlighting(?)!!!
I’m not bothered that Fred Thompson has stayed out of the ‘in-fighting’ and when he IS interviewed I like what he says.
My opinion still stands re Barack Hussein Obama and hillary clinton. All media hype - they will run clinton/Obama.