Posted on 01/18/2008 7:03:44 PM PST by Roy Tucker
Fred Thompson, making what could be his last stand in South Carolina, has inched up to third in the latest tracking poll leading up to Saturday's first-in-the-South primary. Thompson has 14 percent in the Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released this morning, sliding ahead of Mitt Romney, who slipped to 12 percent, even though some of the polling was done after he won the Michigan primary on Tuesday. Romney is chasing delegates in Nevada, whose caucuses are also Saturday, after saying he believes John McCain has South Carolina locked up. McCain held his lead in the new poll, with 29 percent, compared to 22 percent for Mike Huckabee. Ron Paul and Rudy Giuliani were tied at 5 percent, according to the poll. A Clemson University poll also gave McCain a 29 percent-22 percent edge over Huckabee, who won the leadoff caucuses in Iowa but hasn't finished better than third since. Thompson, the former US senator from Tennessee, plans to air a 60-second ad during today's evening news across South Carolina in which he talks up his conservative credentials in a folksy way designed to appeal to Southern voters. "I've been a conservative all my life," he says, then citing his "100 percent pro-life" record and asserting that Americans' fundamental rights come "from God, not government." McCain, meanwhile, picked up the endorsement today of the Charleston Post and Courier, which also endorsed him in 2000, when he lost to now-President Bush. The newspaper's editorial board said McCain's record in the eight years since only reinforced its belief that the Arizona senator is the best suited for the presidency.
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Good point!
No Problem. Duncan is a great man and a good conservative. Too bad he hired crooks and incompetents to ruin erh.. run his campaign.
You didn’t answer my question. I’m not surprised.
That was because of his support of McCain-Feingold. They must have gotten over that, because they have endorsed him for President.
You are 100% correct.
Almost all of the Fredheads are GOOD people who mean well.
Bush fooled them...
Fred is fooling them...
Bush will be revealed in his horrid betray over immigration and NOW this wicked assault on the 2nd amendment.
Fred will be revealed when he endorses McCain.
I am not fooled by either of them.
That’s all I am saying.
NRTL is more sold out and compromised than a Clinton Fundraiser.
Of course I did. You missed it.
Let me spell it out for you.
I supported his nomination in 1987 because I did not learn about his malignant ideas about RKBA until much later.
That’s why Willard tried so hard to get the endorsement and was so disappointed when he didn’t get it, right? Because they’re sold out?
Yeah, a hand out.
Because Fred believes in telling the truth, no matter the cost. Unlike certain other Northeastern candidates.
Because it is so.
“Fred was in all the way to super duper Tuesday”
FRED has the abilty to be the KINGMAKER at the brokered convention we are almost certainly heading for.
AND he is the most likely candidate to UNITE the party, for the run against Hitlery...
All of this will come into play after the first vote in Denver...
“Thompson, the former US senator from Tennessee, plans to air a 60-second ad during today’s evening news across South Carolina in which he talks up his conservative credentials in a folksy way designed to appeal to Southern voters”
Glad to hear it. Ya gotta go after those votes!
Yes. They saw the October polls and thought Thompson would be the man and so they placed their bets.
NTRL is all about the money. If Abortion ever ended? They’d have to go get real jobs.
Calling them sell outs is being soft and way too generous.
They are really selfish, lying, thieving, murdering political whores of the worst kind.
And that doesn’t even begin to come close to their full level of evil.
They are ANTI-CHRISTS!
Take a look at the details on that 33% rating: They included CFR as a pro-life issue.
second place would keep him going I think
third probably not
(?)
man....this would be a miracle even more than App State beating Michigan.
i heard on nashville radio this morning fred has no schedules for next week
That doesn’t work as satire OR sanity.
I hope we don’t vote based on who a candidate’s campaign managers are. I will grant you that Duncan’s campaign never has gotten off the ground, but it appears no one else has it cinched yet either. This is one crazy primary cycle that’s for sure.
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