Fred Thompson didn't "wimp out" on anyone. He reluctantly gave up his comfortable life because he was convinced by supporters that their would be a large conservative base for his candidacy. There wasn't. If anyone "wimped out" it was the self proclaimed "social" conservatives who were played like a fiddle by Huckabee and his supporters. Much of the conservative base that should have supported Fred, instead supported a faux conservative huckster.
Fred only does things his way and wasn't about to stick around when the reason for his candidacy didn't materialize. Come to think of it, that's one of the things that drives some people crazy about Sarah, she does things her own way even if it doesn't please the pundits. I like that about both of them.
Well, I was waiting for Fred to come out and when he did, he didn’t do much.
Sure wasn’t going for Huckabee, and Romney doesn’t light my fire and McCain only got my vote because of Sarah.
Hey, Fred let us down. I was one who wrote him and asked him to run...but was left wanting, when I heard him speak. He waited too long to get into the race. During the debate when he had to give unscripted answers-—he was horrible. Naw, Fred wasn’t what we thought he was. Coulter called that one.
Deserves-repeating bump. Huckabee is a product of the same Arkansas political environment (and I think the same machine, the Stevens Little Rock machine) that produced Bill Clinton.
As for Fred, he started late because (and most people aren't aware of this) he had contractual obligations through August 2007 to NBC. He had to wait to declare, lest he become liable for NBC's having to pull some of their summer reruns of the previous season's Law and Order episodes, until after Labor Day 2007. That was too late. The train had left the station.
And McCain.