Where do all the Fred-heads go? [Free Republic poll cited]

Wash Times ^ | January 23, 2008 | Stephen Dinan

[rface]

So far, Mitt Romney is winning overwhelming support, according to a poll at FreeRepublic.com, which had been a place where Fred Thompson's supporters congregated.

[Beagle8U]

Oak trees. Thats how the sign reads..”Under the Oaks”.

[gruna]

Romney 52.0%, Giuliani 5.4%, Huckabee 4.1%, McCain 3.4%. At what point would you consider Romney’s support overwhelming?

[angelcindy]

mitt for me now..

[bcsco]

I’ll be supporting Duncan Hunter but he has little chance due to MSM ignoring him (and him letting them!)

Hunter dropped out of the race over the weekend, before Fred. There is a coterie of Hunter supporters here on FR who are continuing their support in hopes of reviving something, but that's a long-shot at best.

I'm giving Romney a look, not as a favored candidate but as the least objectionable. I'll continue through Super Tuesday. Then we'll see. If I see something in the meantime that turns me off on him, I'll write in Fred's name on the February 5th ballot.

[mnehring]

I would love to see a link where Williams 'officially' endorsed Paul. Williams' exact quote regarding the race was "I personally think that if we chose the president of the United States at random, we'd get a better president than any president since Ronald Reagan,"

In an article a while back in Human Events magazine, he said something like; his unyielding isolationism that might have been appropriate for another era is not realistic...He does not believe, as we do, that America must win the war against the terrorist-sponsoring nations. We find intolerable his repeated statements that we were attacked on 9/11 because we had a presence in the Middle East. That implies that we were, in whole or in part, to blame for the attacks.....

I also seem to recall someone pointed out a few months ago that the only candidate Williams has donated money to is Romney.

Paul's campaign is taking one positive statement by Williams and trying to say it is an endorsement: http://people.ronpaul2008.com/endorsements/2007/12/21/walter-e-williams/

[rface]

It is entirely possible that Romney is going to be very much like Reagan in this regard......

I am hoping

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I used to work (CP/CMS) directly across the street from that sign/rock. I took some license in my reproduction for my post.

[Just another Joe]

Write in your vote if necessary.

[ejonesie22]

Not really, I just come from the knowledgable angle.

It is like another talk with one of your more honest and gracious cohorts. Acknowledge his many warts, the fact that many of his Conservative creds are mostly just positions on a page right now but he really does mean what he says, and I am willing to give benefit of the doubt.

Trying to continue selling Mitt Romney as Mr. Conservative when he never got past 10-20% support on the leading Conservative web site on the planet until Fred and Hunter were gone is the true “false premise”.

Selling him as a man who desires to carry our banner into the fray, who has warts and a spotty Conservative history but will endeavor not to let us down because he is really now one of us, that plays much better to us in the conservative thinking crowd. We are not impressed with his looks or demeanor but with what he believes and will do.

One last thought. Romney needs us more than we need him. He is going to have a very rough time in the general. Think about that when you are ripping around here.

[org.whodat]

The way I see it is that we need to repeat our lessons in 2006 and this time gove the WH to the democrats to go along with the House and Senate thus ensuring that conservatives will have no one that will listen to their concerns.

That is always the results when a bunch of moderate rinos try to force liberalism by a different name on the conservatives.

[The Pack Knight]

And, adding to my last post, considering the other options, I don't really think it would make Fred a 'RINO' if he endorsed McCain tomorrow.

After all, I'm not at all convinced that anyone else in the race would run a substantially more conservative or 'Republican' administration than would McCain.

None of the candidates are perfect Republicans. The only way Fred Thompson would be a 'RINO' in my book is if he endorsed someone other than a Republican in the general election.

It's "pick your poison" time in the Republican primary, and I won't hold it against Fred Thompson if he picks a different form of poison than I do.

[Beagle8U]

I used to date a girl that lived a few houses from there.

That was about 1965. Its a nasty part of that nasty town now.

[SwankyC]

Where do all the Fred-heads go?

That's easy, McCain.

[ejonesie22]

Numerically it is good, but to say "overwhelming support" implies willingness, not resignation. Don't get giddy, you won, take it and be happy.

[ConservativeDude]

I am hoping”

We’re in the same boat. Avoiding dogmatism here, but trying to look on the bright side....

[Scarchin]

“Ripping around here”?

What the hell are you talking about?

[o_zarkman44]

If gun and ammo sales have any bearing on how people are voting, I think the disenfranchised majority understands how voting will never give our country the change we really need.
The two party system will never fix anything but their own job security.
I am not advocating civil disorder. But what if?

[CottonBall]

At least Hillary would have the Republicans in congress fighting her and not making McCain legislation go though which could kill the conservative movement for decades.

At last, someone reiterating what I've been posting! We need to keep repeating this - many are not looking at this big picture.

[Retired Greyhound]

Rudy all the way.

[CottonBall]

So I don’t think the menu analogy works. An election is not a dinner party.

Actually, I think it might work. People can also go to a different restaurant, cook at home, or just not eat.