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Goodbye Fred
Townhall.com ^ | 1/5/07 | Selena Zito

Posted on 01/05/2008 9:05:25 AM PST by pissant

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To: ejonesie22

The baby, not Fred!


61 posted on 01/05/2008 9:21:36 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: All

The media players will do all they can to try to control the ‘race’ by printing what they want about who they want. As usual, they don’t know the ‘voters’, the red states, the flyover country as they call us. :) It aint over yet.


62 posted on 01/05/2008 9:21:39 AM PST by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
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To: John123

Fred is not a career politician.

Only career politicians NEED a job.


63 posted on 01/05/2008 9:21:45 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: pissant

Fred will get the nod...


64 posted on 01/05/2008 9:22:02 AM PST by devane617 (Stop Illegal Immigration. Call your Senator today. Senate Switchboard at 202-224-3121.)
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To: pissant

Typical pissant logic!


65 posted on 01/05/2008 9:22:49 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: doosee

Gone are the days when the VP is a silent partner.


66 posted on 01/05/2008 9:22:54 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: pissant
The problem is that he has never shown a willingness to fight for conservative causes.

That is my biggest worry about Fred. He chaired the committee to investigate the Clinton/China funny money, and allowed the investigation to be turned into an investigation into Haley Barbour and the Republicans (the only part of the investigation to be covered live by CNN!) He allowed himself to be rolled, and didn't seem to mind at all.

Meanwhile, McCain was covering Clinton's and the Chinese's flank with his "This is all about the need for more laws" campaign.

67 posted on 01/05/2008 9:22:54 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Always Right
but Fred was never in fourth place. Fred was always #3

That is factually incorrect.

68 posted on 01/05/2008 9:23:09 AM PST by PAR35
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To: 2111USMC

Hunter to endorse McCain? What a joke! Amnesty McCain being endorsed by Hunter... I’ll believe it when I see it.


69 posted on 01/05/2008 9:23:12 AM PST by rintense (Thompson/Hunter 2008!)
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To: pissant
“I think he was expecting to ride in, pick up the bouquet, and that would be that,” says Bert A. Rockman, head of the political science department at Purdue University. “It doesn’t work that way. “People confuse appearance with reality. Thompson played hard-as-nails authority figures on TV and in the movies. But his campaign had no distinctiveness, no comparative advantage.”

this guy was a huge DNC contributor while at U. of Pittsburgh , last contibutions '00,probably about time Internet listings got going, according to Newsmeat. Why does Zito make him go to guy on Conservative website?

70 posted on 01/05/2008 9:23:41 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: pissant

You know, back when Huckabee was a second-tier no-hoper, I considered myself a nominal supporter of his. I didn’t think he had the slightest chance of winning, but my view was that it was too early to start strategizing and compromising and I might as well stick with a guy I really liked for as long as he was around.

About the time the “Huckaboom” took off, I wised up. Got off the Huck bandwagon at the same time a great many of my compatriots got on.

Anyway, the point is that I could actually see myself joining the Hunter camp with the same mindset I used to have as a Huck guy. But the bull-headed, fanaticism-tinged detachment from reality of his supporters turns me off.


71 posted on 01/05/2008 9:24:02 AM PST by Dan Middleton
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Fred IS winning over Reagan Democrats, as we speak, including some diehard rats in my own family.


72 posted on 01/05/2008 9:25:13 AM PST by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

I know plenty of Reagan Democrats that are going to vote for Huckabee. Fred is not getting much support in his college town. I have decided to wimp out in the primaries. Not voting.


73 posted on 01/05/2008 9:26:07 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: pissant
What I said to her is a fact, not name calling.

I think Hunter is great. I am hoping we will end up with a Thompson/Hunter ticket.

Eight years of that, then the country will know and love Hunter, then eight years of him as President.

Sixteen years of true conservatives might be enough to turn this place back into what the Founding Fathers intended it to be.

Either that or we will end up with Hitlery and Hussein. And that is the end of our Roman empire.

74 posted on 01/05/2008 9:26:09 AM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott

This campaign season has been mild. Mostly ‘cause the Rudy folks are largely gone, I assume


75 posted on 01/05/2008 9:26:13 AM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: pissant

There are only two acceptable candidates in the race, and you can think of nothing better to do than work nonstop to try to drive one of them out?

I haven’t noticed Fred’s supporters spending a lot of time attacking Duncan Hunter.

This is extremely stupid and counterproductive. With a bunch of liberal idiots running for the Republican nomination, you have to keep attacking the only other conservative in the race? How about spending a little time supporting your candidate, instead? Or going after the big three liberals?


76 posted on 01/05/2008 9:26:33 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: pissant

How do these constant anti-Fred posts help your man Duncan Hunter?

Why not keep your eye on the ball? Let’s focus on what’s wrong with the RINOs, squishes, and sellouts in the race? Right now the only candidate likely to overcome Slick-Mitt and the Huckster is Fred. For all the reasons you and I support Duncan, we should be focusing on the disaster for our country if either one of them is our nominee.


77 posted on 01/05/2008 9:26:50 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
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To: o_zarkman44
Only career politicians NEED a job.

True. Reagan wasn't a career politician and he had "fire in his belly."

And to be honest with you, we are going to need a fighter in the WH to get the jackasses in the Congress to do anything. Lower taxes, build the wall...

And the point is -- Fred said that! Why would any of us vote for someone who is going to be a lame duck POTUS?

78 posted on 01/05/2008 9:27:01 AM PST by John123 ("What good fortune for the governments that the people do not think" -- Adolf Hitler)
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To: John123

Are you deliberately lying or just completely ignorant?

Thompson NEVER said any such thing.


79 posted on 01/05/2008 9:27:19 AM PST by Politicalmom (Huckabee’s foreign policy experience consists of eating at the International House of Pancakes.)
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To: Always Right
Didn't stay up all night, but Fred was never in fourth place. Fred was always #3 and McCain closed the gap towards the end.

Fairly late in the evening, McCain was in third by, IIRC, a hundred or two hundred votes. It lasted for about twenty minutes then reverted back.

80 posted on 01/05/2008 9:27:23 AM PST by Bob
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