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At the Last Minute, Thompson Shines
National Review Online ^ | 19 January 2008 | Byron York

Posted on 01/19/2008 6:09:45 AM PST by SE Mom

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To: TLI
Just saying that Byron is purported to be a "professional" yet he is only now catching on to what the original FredHeads knew almost a year ago.

Earlier then that. Dec 4, 2006 click on link.

FEAR THE FRED

61 posted on 01/19/2008 10:24:04 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made." Groucho Marx)
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To: Yaelle
"He convinced me thoroughly that he is the best guy to be our President in ‘08."

Those of us who pay attention to the candidates' voting records have always been for Fred (that would be the majority of Freeperdom), and it has been agonizing to watch the media treatment of him. Even Fox. Does anybody know, what was this thing about him refusing to go on O'Reilly? Was that a major gaffe by a Thompson staffer, or a stab in the back by an O'Reilly staffer?

62 posted on 01/19/2008 10:31:53 AM PST by Liberty Wins (Not only does Fred Thompson cut taxes, he cuts tax collectors.)
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To: SE Mom

If Mr. York is just now seeing it, it is by his own choice for not looking past or under the bushel the MSM has put over Fred’s campaign... Fred is shining despite all of that. Woooo HOOOOO!


63 posted on 01/19/2008 10:34:04 AM PST by Honeybunch ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
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To: TLI
". . . bewilderment that others can not clearly see Fred is the obvious (and ONLY) choice from the candidates."

No bewilderment here. Evangelicals out there have not been doing their research. Fred should have had that whole voting block, but too many of them have already forgotten the Jimmah Carter rule of politics: Only a fool believes what politicians say during the heat of the campaign.

64 posted on 01/19/2008 10:42:18 AM PST by Liberty Wins (Not only does Fred Thompson cut taxes, he cuts tax collectors.)
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To: Yaelle
I may be the only person in L.A. driving around with a Fred Thompson bumpersticker.

Just drove up to Malibu last week with my Fred2008 bumper sticker were I attended an NCAA men's volleyball match at Pepperdine wearing my Fred08 cap.

The curious stares were priceless.

65 posted on 01/19/2008 10:50:24 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made." Groucho Marx)
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To: gitmo

Looks like Fred took his surge points out of Romney’s hide.


66 posted on 01/19/2008 10:55:33 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made." Groucho Marx)
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To: NYC Republican
Why isn’t he pounding the frontrunner JM? Too little too late

Because, despite the media lovefest with McCain, he is not Fred's competition in the South; Huckabee is.

67 posted on 01/19/2008 10:58:22 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: littlehouse36
You’d think a professional actor would know better!

He's not delivering lines, written by someone else, and only needing to be memorized. He's speaking extemporaneously. Many folks use uhs and ahs in their speech.

68 posted on 01/19/2008 11:00:18 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SE Mom
Not sure where they’ve been over at NRO- but Byron got a shock last night, eh?

Seems like they've spent the last year shilling for Rudy. They've only noticed the others in the last couple of months, since Rudy's been mostly AWOL from the early primaries.

69 posted on 01/19/2008 11:03:14 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SE Mom

Oh, that’s very good news!


70 posted on 01/19/2008 11:04:02 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Politicalities
There is absolutely no statistically-valid conclusion you can draw from an internet poll, other than that the specific people who chose to vote in that specific poll probably have the preferences they stated.

You can draw the conclusion that people who get the majority of their news/analysis from the internet favor Fred ...can you not?

71 posted on 01/19/2008 11:04:18 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made." Groucho Marx)
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To: ejonesie22

You can say THAT again! ;o)


72 posted on 01/19/2008 11:05:07 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Actually, NRO endorsed Romney about a month or so back...but there was an editorial split- several wanted Thompson.


73 posted on 01/19/2008 11:05:51 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

OUCH! I talked to a Catholic friend of mine today who said Huckabee scares the hell outta her.


74 posted on 01/19/2008 11:06:02 AM PST by rintense (Thompson / Hunter 2008!)
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To: gbscott1954
It is clear that Fred has some momentum. Don’t know how much, but it is there. My read is that there were still lots of people who had not fully made up their minds.

That would be about 41% of the Republican voters in SC, according to a story I read this morning. That's a LOT of wiggle room for the polls.

75 posted on 01/19/2008 11:10:23 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

http://corner.nationalreview.com/
Late Fred Mojo [Rich Lowry]

First Read also picked it up:

Final SC Thoughts: And with one of us on the ground in South Carolina, here are a few final thoughts on the GOP contest there: Thompson’s crowd yesterday of more than 400 anti-immigration, national security hardliners was fervent and he was animated, pacing back and forth on the stage gesturing forcefully and talking tough. He got “Amens” and “that’s rights” Perhaps his best performance yet? But one can’t help but feel that had he given his all and had he bought into the process, he could win this thing — which he probably won’t. Huck, playing guitar again, drew a smaller crowd than Fred (about 250 to 300) at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. And many on the ground are questioning the level of zeal here among evangelicals compared with Iowa. As for McCain, he’s going to get the veterans and coastal voters. It’s almost as if they’re on a mission. Maybe they even think something’s owed to him from 2000. This state will break three ways — the coast, Lexington County and the upstate. McCain solely campaigned at the coast yesterday, while Huckabee and Thompson campaigned in the same neighborhoods upstate.

01/19 02:10 PM


76 posted on 01/19/2008 11:12:35 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

If they endorsed Romney, it was a change from the sentiment earlier in 2007, which seemed to be all Rudy.


77 posted on 01/19/2008 11:13:23 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: rintense
I talked to a Catholic friend of mine today who said Huckabee scares the hell outta her.

This one, and a homeschooler to boot, doesn't like Huckabee either!

78 posted on 01/19/2008 11:14:56 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Yep- it was. However, K Lo has always been a Romney girl- and I think her influence was felt in the endorsement.


79 posted on 01/19/2008 11:15:58 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

I truly am optimistic about the SC vote for Fred. I’m hoping and praying he pulls if not First place, then at least Second! Heck, even a strong Third, not too far off second would be fine with me. It would beat all of the media’s expectations, and continue his momentum!


80 posted on 01/19/2008 11:18:25 AM PST by SuziQ
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