[Jet Jaguar]

I think that McCain should drop out and endorse Fred. You are completely wrong that Fred has not said what he brings to the table that the others don't. He brings conservatism across the board that none of the other, including McCain, bring.

He has repeated this dozens, if not hundreds, of times. If you haven't heard it, go to http://www.fred08.com/Principles/PrinciplesSummary.aspx and discover it.

Fred has the added benefit of actually having voted in line with his positions, which is in distinct variance with Governors Romney and Huckabee.

Posted by: Joel | Jan 5, 2008 3:15:36 PM

1st comment of many.

[unspun]

South Carolina seems to bear the signs of being a GOP campaigning hell hole again, this season.

[Terrence DoGood]

The State is a pretty moderate to lib paper. This doesn’t surprise me.

[GloriaJane]

"I think that McCain should drop out and endorse Fred."

I'm with you on that one!

[Kozak]

Tell us what it was he brought to the campaign that the candidates already running did not already offer.

Easy. A consistent, reasoned, conservative set of principles and policies.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Wishful thinking on the authors part.kick mcnutts to the curb.

[mylife]

Seems Fred has made inroads in SC.

Theres a few nutters there, but a lot of support for Fred, and if Fred does well in SC I think there will be a strong shift in momentum.

Go Fred!

[donna]

I just watched that crazy McCain at the ABC debate lying through his teeth, one more time, about the fact that he supports amnesty.

The first thing he would do as president is legalize every illegal alien in the country and then he’d get on TV and swear it wasn’t amnesty.

[vaudine]

What is wrong with this piece? He asserts McCain is still the same man, and in some ways he is--hardheaded, hotheaded, still pro military. But 2000 was pre-McCain-Feingold; pre-gang of 14; pre-pro illegal stance. He may be the same guy and we just did not know him then. Since 2000 his warts are showing.

vaudine

[GCC Catholic]

Indeed, McCain would do all a favor by bowing out and endorsing Fred, with the exception perhaps of Mr. Obama.

I wonder also if McCain might have hurt his chances by focusing on attracting Republicans instead of the independents in NH; Obama focused heavily on his idea of 'coalition-building' which could attract a lot of independents who might have been attracted more to McCain or Paul before tonight.

Go Fred!

[skinkinthegrass]

Thanks, Jet/Upchuck
i've read the article and comments.

[CyberAnt]

“I think McCain should drop out and support Fred.”

YES!!

Besides .. Fred did support McCain until Fred found out what was really in McCain’s CFR legislation. Fred did support it, but later changed his mind about it. I don’t think Fred is any too anxious to support anything McCain.

[pissant]

I agree with the bow out part. And alas, when he does, it will be McQueeg he endorses.

[DrewsDad]

You would think that someone from South Carolina would know what an anchor Grahamnesty is around a candidates neck. Hopefully the voters there will give him a demonstration.

[Jim Robinson]

Rubbish.

[rintense]

Highly unlikely that all Fred supporters would go to McCain, even if Fred endorsed him. McCain’s history on illegals and the WoT have sunk him with a great deal of conservatives. I for one will never cast a vote for McCain. His childish antics tonight, as well as his less than truthful rhetoric on illegal immigration, only served to sink him even lower.

[hinckley buzzard]

McCain came across tonight as thin-skinned and barely veiled nasty. Probably the poorest showing of the bunch. He clearly had a hard-on for Romney who was adept enough not to get into the dirt. My guess is the McCain 'surge' ended tonight, and good riddance to the mental case.

[aruanan]

If Sen. Thompson wants to advance his own values, if he wants to make a difference and serve the country -- or if he simply wants the gratification of being a player at all -- he should get behind McCain now.

Yeah, get behind him and shove him off the electoral cliff. It's now McCain's turn to support the truly conservative, viable candidate and then shuffle off into the dark night of his political and physical senescence with some degree of redeeming grace for having helped elect someone who has a chance of undoing the monstrosity that is McCain/Feingold.

[Candor7]

McPain has burned to many bridges to the conservative electorate. I could list those bridges but we all know them, from McPain Feinigold to Amnest International and his destruction of the conservative legislative agenda as a RINO in the Senate's gang of 14.

I would vote for Obama before I would vote for McPain, just to watch Obama break the back of the Black caucus in the Dem party. Buh-bye Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!

[cquiggy]

McCain should drop out and endorse Fred. Fred Thompson is our only hope of saving the America we know. Just look at the crowds for Barak Hussein Obama. Young inexperienced easily led voters signing up by the hundreds. Older african americans who have never voted before signing up by the thousands all of a sudden its important. Even suburban white women formerly known as soccer moms now Oprah fans. I suppose all of these new or nearly new voters are really going to bone up on the issues before the election. And lets not forget the left wing media being in love with Barak Hussein Obama. He wont need campaign donations. The news coverage he is getting comes free. Show your support for Fred now before its too late.

[bpjam]

Two things:

1. The story on the Politico about Fred dropping out and endorsing McCain if he didn’t win in Iowa was obviously a planted story by somebody in the McCain campaign and not Freds campaign. They ran with it despite emphatic denials from everybody who is provably in Freds campaign. The media WANTS McCain and they think the GOP should want him also.

2. McCain has never (yes, I’m saying NEVER) won a GOP primary with GOP votes. The GOP has already decided that they DO NOT WANT MCCAIN! They don’t want Amnesty, Campaign Finance ‘Reform’ or anything else which is bipartisan with 90% Dem support. McCain is dead to conservatives.

The media has been pitching this McCain comeback story since the day before Iowa. They have been repeating it literally word for word channel by channel. If there is such a thing as ‘the Republican establishment’, it IS the McCain backers. And that is who is getting thumped the worst right now.