Posted on 01/19/2008 6:09:45 AM PST by SE Mom
Greenville, South Carolina — At various times during Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign, there have been moments in which Republicans who admire Thompson and want him to succeed have said, “Yessssss! Yessssss! Why haven’t we seen more of that?” One such moment happened in December, after Thompson’s “no hand shows” performance at the Des Moines Register debate in Iowa. Another came nine days ago after Thompson’s forceful performance at the Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach. And there was another last night, in the final appearance of Thompson’s South Carolina primary campaign, in a packed room at Greenville’s Embassy Suites hotel. At that appearance, Thompson was so good, so energized, so non-laid-back-Fred, that many of his supporters wondered where the man had been during the campaign.
... “We’re having a little discussion in the party nowadays about what that means for the future,” Thompson told the crowd. “Some people think we need to get away from the Reagan coalition, because it doesn’t exist any more.” The audience erupted into boos. “Some people seem to think that we need to be a little bit more what they called progressive…Well, I reject that concept with every fiber of my being.”
... Thompson spoke without notes, and with obvious feeling. He so clearly believed what he was saying that he made an emotional connection with the crowd, and they responded with enormous enthusiasm. To everyone in the audience, Friday night in Greenville was what the Thompson campaign was supposed to be about. What made it particularly compelling was that it followed one of those quirky appearances that have come to represent what the Thompson campaign became. Three hours before the Embassy Suites speech, Thompson’s bus pulled up in front of the Westin Poinsett hotel on Main Street in Greenville, where Thompson emerged to…wander around.
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Bingo:)
BO's producers had been trying to get Fred on the factor for several months. They asked him five times and each time Fred turned them down flat. However.. Fred did offer BO a ride on his campaign bus. 8>).
Then Jeri went on the factor and several weeks later so did Fred.
BO didn't bloviate and let Fred talk his issues. IOW it was a rare and serious interview were the 'bloviator' kept his 'bloviating' under control.
My guess is Fred laid down some conditions before he would appear.
Chard, FRed, Chard!!
Good for Byron. Go FRed.
Not over yet — bump!
“Some people seem to think that we need to be a little bit more what they called progressive…Well, I reject that concept with every fiber of my being.”
I like the sound of that.
Any exit polling data yet?
I actually haven’t kept up closely with any of the primaries. Just watching things fall into place :)
No, you can not... unless you can prove that a) members of the population "people who get the majority of their news/analysis from the Internet" are the only respondents; a single respondent not in your population taints the sample, and b) that the subpopulation "people who get the majority of their news/analysis from the Internet and choose to fill out Internet polls, and happened to be visiting this particular site and voting in this particular poll" has exactly the same preferences as the full population. Both of these things must be true for you to draw that conclusion, and as it happens, both of them are false.
The More You Know!
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