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Thompson Rises to Third in SC Poll
Boston.com ^ | 17 January, 2008 | Foon Rhee

Posted on 01/18/2008 7:03:44 PM PST by Roy Tucker

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To: nmh
I clarified this somewhere. Hunter probably won't get the Presidency in a brokered convention. What he WILL get is a lot of national exposure setting him to run for Senate or Gov. of California- quite possibly a VP slot.

We all know Hunter is a fine man. But the rest of the country doesn't. This is his chance to use the national stage to show it.

That is how he wins.

261 posted on 01/19/2008 7:53:47 AM PST by rintense (Thompson / Hunter 2008!)
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To: Grunthor

“As much as I dislike both men and believe that neither deserves the nomination nor the Presidency....I DESPISE Juan McCain.”

I do not despise the man because of his service to our counrty, but I despise his politics since he is a liberal! The Huckabee supporters who are begging folks to vote for Huckabee so McCain won’t win are desperate. They know that McCain won’t win even though the MSM has McCain ahead in all their news polls. Remember the MSM wants McCain first or Huckabee second to be our nominee. They know Hillary can beat either one. So folks who really like Fred but think they should vote for Huckabee because they think it will keep McCain from winning are foolish. McCain is being proped up by the media. He did not win SC in the past, and won’t now. And who would want Huckabee since he is just a pro-life liberal? Fred is the only conservative! I have hope that the folks in South Carolina who like Fred will vote for Fred! GO FRED!


262 posted on 01/19/2008 7:57:55 AM PST by seekthetruth
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To: rintense

I clarified this somewhere. Hunter probably won’t get the Presidency in a brokered convention. What he WILL get is a lot of national exposure setting him to run for Senate or Gov. of California- quite possibly a VP slot.
We all know Hunter is a fine man. But the rest of the country doesn’t. This is his chance to use the national stage to show it.

That is how he wins.


I see ... national exposure is good.

Don’t get me wrong, he appears to be a good guy ... I really HATE seeing LIARS and FRAUDS like the Huckster taking up space for good guys.


263 posted on 01/19/2008 8:01:37 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: John Valentine
"FRed will place 4th in South Carolina."

That would be a tragedy for our nation. I sincerely hope that you head is right where I think it is.

I sincerely doubt that you have ever been accused of being a decent human being. If a comment on a forum, that is as close to factual truth as possible by all indications, a comment that was not aimed at you personally, causes you to post as you did then I say, God help us as a Nation.

264 posted on 01/19/2008 8:01:37 AM PST by La Enchiladita (Psalm 27)
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To: proudpapa

>Hopefully Rudy, McCain and Romney split the Rino vote and Thompson wins big in Florida.

Now that would be perfect!


265 posted on 01/19/2008 8:24:23 AM PST by bill1952 (The right to buy weapons is the right to be free)
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To: eleni121
Fred's support of McCain Feingold, of which he helped craft portions, grew out of his investigations into campaign financing abuses. These were mostly by the Clintons, but he expanded it to include some Republicans as well, which didn't sit well with the Republican leadership. His idea was that corruption is bad, no matter who does it.

Fred was looking for ways to bring campaign financing back into the realm of the little guy, the individual supporter, who'd been ignored in the era of bundling and under the table foreign money. His motivation was no more nefarious than that. He realized that the individual voter was feeling totally cut off from the notion of any decision making by the candidate, in favor of the high rollers. Now one might say that campaigns have always been this way, but Fred was looking out over the political landscape and seeing that half the people in the country were so disaffected by politics that they didn't even bother to vote. He realized that this was NOT a good thing for the country, when the major decisions were being made by a minority of people. He was simply looking for ways to bring voters back to the polls, energized and ready to participate. I, for one, applaud his efforts. Granted, when the bill finally came out, there were things in it with which Fred did not agree, and he's stated that. I guess that's the way of the world in Congress.

266 posted on 01/19/2008 8:43:46 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: fortheDeclaration
There was a Republican Party in Mass.?

Yep! I are one of them! Unfortunately, I missed a gathering this week in our town; a Presidential Straw Poll. I would have gone and voted for Fred, but I'm still recovering from a Christmas week stay in the hospital, so by the evenings, I'm pretty tired. I WILL, however, be at the polls will bells on for the Primary on Feb. 5th. I'll bring along our newest voter in the family; our youngest son turns 18 the day before the Primary, and we took him up to the Town Hall last week to get registered.

267 posted on 01/19/2008 8:46:58 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: visualops
Many of the high profile Conservatives and Republicans in general have completely missed the boat. They are now beginning to realize what some of us have known all along.

Their betrayal of the needs of the GOP will cost us the entire election if it turns out to be too late for Fred. They had better get on board quickly and encourage Fred to stay in this race or their will be no unified GOP going into the general and they could well be stuck with an albatross of a nominee that not only can’t win, but who will fracture us for years to come.

268 posted on 01/19/2008 9:00:27 AM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - Fred D. Thompson / Consistent Conservative...The One with Gravitas)
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To: SuziQ
[There was a Republican Party in Mass.?]

Yep! I are one of them! Unfortunately, I missed a gathering this week in our town; a Presidential Straw Poll. I would have gone and voted for Fred, but I'm still recovering from a Christmas week stay in the hospital, so by the evenings, I'm pretty tired. I WILL, however, be at the polls will bells on for the Primary on Feb. 5th. I'll bring along our newest voter in the family; our youngest son turns 18 the day before the Primary, and we took him up to the Town Hall last week to get registered.

Does everyone in the Party know each other by their first names!

Congratulations on your son's first vote and having him vote GOP 'behind enemy lines'.

269 posted on 01/19/2008 9:01:08 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (The power under the Constitution will always be in the people- George Washington)
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To: SuziQ
Thanks for your analysis of Mccain Feingold..which I believe is deeply flawed..so very flawed.

Despite WH pressure, and over the objections of McLame, the conservative justices were able to dismantle a key provision of this ludicrous law in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life last year.

Is there a quote from Thompson regarding this?

270 posted on 01/19/2008 9:25:17 AM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: SuziQ

Oh -—I forgot——congrats on your son’s first time voting!


271 posted on 01/19/2008 9:26:46 AM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: visualops

I am the messenger. You obviously consider the truth exposing evil AS the evil. That is a common mistake among ignorant people, and people who do not have an accurate world view of the total corrupt and depraved nature of man. Ad for Bush, NRTL, NRA etc.. they are all far left socialist statists who lie and push what little freedoms we have left, in the words of Judge Bork “Slouching towards Gomorrah.”


272 posted on 01/19/2008 10:51:08 AM PST by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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To: RatsDawg

I want the conservatives to reject them all and nominate someone else at convention.


273 posted on 01/19/2008 10:51:51 AM PST by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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To: RatsDawg

I skipped over the Presidency and voted “down ballot” for other offices. I never cast a vote FOR evil, no matter its claim to be lessor of evils.


274 posted on 01/19/2008 10:53:15 AM PST by RachelFaith (Doing NOTHING... about the illegals already here IS Amnesty !!)
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To: seekthetruth

If Fred had Mitts’ money, this race would have ended by now.


275 posted on 01/19/2008 11:43:50 AM PST by Grunthor (No Juan. No Huckaliar. Not primary, not general, not ever.)
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