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Despite a disappointing finish, Thompson doesn't bow out
Chicago Tribune ^ | Jan. 19, 2008 | William Douglas

Posted on 01/19/2008 6:31:23 PM PST by FocusNexus

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To: Jim Robinson

See my post #260


261 posted on 01/20/2008 9:49:54 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: cherry

“my take is...the MSM/DBM have their agenda....their agenda is to get RAts in office....so its 24/7 about Hitlery and Bama and only the Pubs that will never get elected get any air time”

You are absolutely right. I was just talking to a friend, who made the same observation.


262 posted on 01/20/2008 10:25:42 AM PST by FocusNexus
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To: Paladin2
The hope would be that Mitt can be pinned down to be constrained to appoint conservative SCOTUS and lower level judges.

More like a schoolgirl's fantasy. You know how dearly Ivy-educated politicians love to "rise above".

Then Caroline Kennedy gives them a Profile in Courage plaque.

263 posted on 01/20/2008 11:01:59 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Jim Robinson

[Go, FRed, GO!!]

Thanks for the encouragement. Fred really needs to hang tough.


264 posted on 01/20/2008 11:54:47 AM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: Jim Robinson
The only way now to prevent the rinos McCain or Giuliani from getting the nomination is for Huckabee and Mitt to drop out and get behind the only all around consistent conservative in in the race that can pull all three legs of the Reagan coalition back together, FRed Thompson!

My hope now is that we go to the GOP Convention with no candidate with enough delegates to claim the nomination and the the party turns to Fred for the just that very reason.

265 posted on 01/20/2008 11:58:25 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (REAGAN: "..party..must represent certain fundamental beliefs [not] compromised..[for] expediency")
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To: devere
Bigots like Dobson want to elect a Protestant Pope, not a President. What their bigotry will get them is either McCain, Romney, Clinton, or Obama. That’s all that’s left!

I know what Dobson said in a private email. He expressed his gut feelings to friends and aquaintances just like all of us do. Comments like yours and others and Thompson's playing to that part of his base hurt him. He would have been wise to either downplay the leaked email or try to reach out to Dr. Dobson to assure him of his beliefs. Instead he dissed a man who is well liked by millions of people all around the world. Not a good move especially when he then goes out to court the "value voters".(whatever that means)

266 posted on 01/20/2008 12:14:32 PM PST by upsdriver (Thank you, Duncan Hunter! ! Like Ronald Reagan, you make me proud to be an American!)
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To: FocusNexus

I’m for Fred. The rest of you can vote for moderates and pretty boys in the primarys.


267 posted on 01/20/2008 12:24:46 PM PST by linn37 (phlebotomist on duty,its just a little pinch)
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To: FocusNexus
he needs to pick a VP, who can run for president in 8 years.

G. W. Bush didn't.
268 posted on 01/20/2008 12:53:42 PM PST by no dems (FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
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To: linn37
Me too linn, even if I have to write him in!

I will not support a RINO.

Go FRED GO!

269 posted on 01/20/2008 1:23:32 PM PST by sweet_diane (I am voting substance over style...deal with it! Enough with the "I like Fred, but" crapola.)
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To: Teacher317

“The GOP can go hang. They no longer represent my ideals, and I refuse to support someone just because they don’t have a D by their name.”

Enjoy 8 years of President Hillary Rodham Clinton.


270 posted on 01/20/2008 3:12:23 PM PST by flaglady47
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To: lentulusgracchus
Is that what YOU would do if you were among the "big money" people with yachts and access to Caribbean condos?

Bogey-men everywhere. Boo!!!

271 posted on 01/20/2008 7:04:47 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: devere

Yep. Dobson is just one more guy who’s shown his true colors. Two guys I once held in huge esteem have recently collapsed in my estimation: James Dobson and Brit Hume. They had me fooled, but not anymore. They both let me down.


272 posted on 01/20/2008 7:10:44 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: 2nd amendment mama
Oh, man ... reading those numbers just gets my blood boiling at the lack of ethics in America's news rooms. Those people ought to be ashamed of themselves, downright sheepish and with their tails tucked between their legs. They are frauds when they call themselves "newsmen."

Absolute frauds.

Thompson did all of this -- stayed ahead of Giuliani, BEAT Romney, BEAT McCain -- Fred Thompson beat Romney and McCain -- after being in the campaign for four months! And the others had spent a year-plus man-hours and millions of dollars! Thompson waltzes in there and does this in four months.

If that's not newsworthy, then snow is not cold and Oprah Winfrey isn't black.

And those lying, cowardly, slimy, FRAUDULENT "news professionals" in the MSM, including FOX News and all the major newspaper wires -- leave Thompson out of their news reports on the primaries!!!

They should all be tarred and feathered, damn them to hell.

273 posted on 01/20/2008 7:24:41 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: upsdriver
I know what Dobson said in a private email.

Dobson meant for that email to go public. He wanted to cut Thompson's legs off at the knees. James Dobson has become a slimy, manipulative "king-maker" in evangelical circles. We had a lunch today with people from our church and they were discussing the pearls of wisdom that Dobson had been letting drip from his lips this week and how he could now suuport Mike Huckabee. I gagged on my lunch and kept quiet (other than saying I would have to hold my nose to vote for Huckabee and the room got uncomfortably silent for a bit). I will never give another dollar to that pontificating self-important, self-righteous judgmental fool Dobson.

274 posted on 01/20/2008 7:25:34 PM PST by the808bass
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To: upsdriver
ExCUSE me??? You're saying that Thompson should be the one to reach out to DOBSON?

No, sir. Dobson is the one who squeezed this pile, he should be the one to clean it up. You should know that. More so the point, so should he.

275 posted on 01/20/2008 7:28:41 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: the808bass

Dobson seems to be a man with a very strange idea of honor.


276 posted on 01/20/2008 7:30:37 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: Finny; the808bass

Fred Thompson and James Dobson have something in common. Neither one of them is going to be elected president.


277 posted on 01/20/2008 7:35:13 PM PST by upsdriver (Thank you, Duncan Hunter! ! Like Ronald Reagan, you make me proud to be an American!)
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To: flaglady47
Enjoy 8 years of President Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It's a pretty good gamble from my point of view that you are WRONG -- odds are way the other way that:

-- Hillary won't even get the nomination

-- If Hillary gets the nomiation, it will be by fraud and therefore her "base" would be illusion, MSM cheerleading notwithstanding, dooming her to failure

-- Either Hillary or Obama will be extremely weak opponents, as both of them have very serious problem with their images and records -- even a mediocre Republican could defeat them

-- IF either Hillary or Obama won, it would probably be by FRAUD, more than likely by FRAUD. Therefore, their base would be illusion. Either would face the same rejection as Gray Davis in California. Their presidencies would be short-lived, unpopular, and the damage either would do to the Democrat party would make Nixon's scandal-aftermath on the Repulican party look like spilled water.

Your whole premise is flawed, IMO.

278 posted on 01/20/2008 7:58:52 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: upsdriver

That you even post the sentiment says a lot about you and possibly a lot about Dobson, but nothing about Thompson or the primary. It says you’re a pill. :^)


279 posted on 01/20/2008 8:01:07 PM PST by Finny (FOX News: "We report only what we like. You decide based on what we decide.")
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To: FocusNexus
Huckabee is the media's fav. GOP candidate...gee I wonder why. He's easily beatable, that's why.

My take on Huckabee is that he's using God and religion to sell himself. (Preaching, and then blatantly lying about the other candidates positions over and over does not show me his "faith" is real.) I will not vote for him no matter how many Biblical verses he manages to slip into his speeches. What kind of actual foreign policy experience does he have? Isn't that the kind of leader our country needs right now? Someone who knows a great deal about defense and foreign policy....like Fred Thompson. Oh, but the media will not cover Fred --because he could beat Obama and Hillary the Socialist. Huckabee can't--he's WEAK.

280 posted on 01/21/2008 4:43:57 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (THOMPSON '08)
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