Thompson: Poor finish in Iowa won't end campaign (not dropping out - rumor from rival campaign)

IowaPoitics.com ^ | 1/2/08

[stocksthatgoup]

Fred’s team as a ploy to get attention and sympathy.

WOW! Must be second hand smoke of the hallucinogenic kind

[TornadoAlley3]

Just saw Fred on CNN, great job, he will be on Fox and Friends in an hour. Fox and Friends just stated they are asking viewers to email their choice if they could vote tonight...”Fred Thompson has a huge lead.”

[Prophet in the wilderness]

**rumor from rival campaign) **
OK, was it Huckabee or Romney?
Probably flip-floppin’ Romney.

This needs to be broad casted around Iowa loud and clear from now and tomorrow in the news, radio if this holds true.

One poster here on FR from Iowa said that Iowans do not like sleaze or dirty attacks from campaigns.

[snippy_about_it]

Bump

[Prophet in the wilderness]

ROMNEY is a sleaze

[JohnnyZ]

$50 on the Romney Sleaze Machine as the source of the rumor.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Nice photo, I see the Huckabees sent junior a shirt. :)

[Puddleglum]

Came from a rumor at “Politico”, huh? This whole season has been smears, rumors, innuendos, and blogs are the weapon of choice. Learn some HTML, think of lies, peint a web page - how authoritative!

I’ve been saying all along that blogs have replaced investigative journalism, which while crummy at time, is better than blogs. Blogs are undeserved self-importance.

[JohnnyZ]

I am going to support Guiliani if Thompson goes out. .... I hope it doesn’t come to that....GO FRED!

I hear ya, Hank. I wouldn't go for Rudy, but the pickings are slim.

We really need FRED!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" even Fred’s team as a ploy to get attention and sympathy. I think Fred’s campaign is feeling a little desperate and I don’t believe it when Fred said he could care less if he is elected or not."

Horse Feathers

[9YearLurker]

I suggest someone with authority and credibility here post an informative vanity thread that celebrates the pro-Fred surge that is bringing out all these disinformation dropping-out threads and discouragement from other campaigns and the pro-illegal immigration, anti-conservative press. Then we could keep it bumped through the day and it would reflect the positive news that it is.

[MichiganWoodsman]

I thought that it smelled like dirty politics. They are afraid of Fred, he is gaining.

Afraid of Fred? LOL! Fred's geriatric campaign couldn't scare anybody.

[LinnKeyes2000]

I said this on the other 2 like threads.

This idea is inconsistent with itself.

Fred's not in this for personal ambition, as all the media loves to quote and some mis-quote. If he thought Mclame was good enough to endorse, he'd have never started this in the first place.

Fred is not dropping out and he's not endorsing Mclame.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I am getting my Gold Foil hat on now

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I heard a few posters saying that while on Rush’s thread yesterday...need to follow the trail.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

That is great news.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Fred surge before the purge.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I just got a post from someone who said that on Fox News, they are having people email in your choices on whom they are voting for and Fred has a huge lead.
MITT and HUCK are going down.

[Eroteme]

The Huckster has the religious right votes locked up.

The religious part, maybe. The right part, no. Huckabee supporters may be religious, but they're not conservative. The one-note tune is playing so loudly, they can't hear the the rest of the sorry, liberal song.

[Yaelle]

Here’s the sad depressing thing about rumors. Sorry, make that “SOME” rumors. I am up too early with a cough this morning and I hear the local morning radio guys chatting and agreeing with each other that Fred is dropping out. They joked about his “few” supporters going to McCain, and how he never had fire in his belly — I was so frustrated with those STUPID talking points. If this is happening in L.A. it’s happening all over.

NO ONE is talking about any OTHER rumors. On the Dem side they have a 3rd-placer who may have gotten one of his campaign people PREGNANT and yet that rumor is quiet. But the rumor that Fred will bail basically tomorrow is EVERYWHERE. That HAS to discourage the Iowa Fred-leaners. ARGH!