[CharlesWayneCT]

I don’t understand the speculation. It won’t make it happen, and when it does happen, whatever was guessed at won’t matter one whit.

In the meantime, if you want to speculate, why not speculate on Fred doing some thing good for the party, rather than bad?

[MinuteGal]

Whoa there, Charley, me boy........ I'M not doing the speculatin'. The anti-FReds are. Aren't you getting things a little upside down, man?

Secondly, please delineate exactly what Fred is doing "BAD" for the party? He is now the last conservative standing.......are you calling his principles "BAD"?

You sound like you have the unreasoning, deep hatred for Thompson that the Dems have for President Bush. Again, what is "BAD" about FRed Thompson?

"You are old, Father William", the young man said
"And your hair has become very white
And yet you incessantly stand on your head
Do you think at your age this is right?"

"In my yute", Father William replied to his son
"I feared it might injure my brain
But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none
Why, I do it again and again".

(Alice in Freeperland by Lewis Carroll)

Leni