Posted on 08/27/2009 10:21:54 AM PDT by TexasGunRunner
Back during the 2008 Iowa Cacuses, a rumor was circulated the night before that Fred Thompson was going to pull out of the race.
During an interview the next day, Thompson said he knew who was behind it, but refused to discuss beyond saying it cost him "a couple of points".
I understand during the election, nobody was going to admit who did it, certainly not until after November. OK, November came, went, and now the socialist-in-chief has everybody distracted, so, I ask:
who did it?
Was a Fredhead from the gitgo, but I have to agree, Fred didn’t seem inspired enough. My guess is that he was sucker punched behind the scenes and for some reason choose to not hit back or speak out. It would be difficult not to suspect Mclame, but the who, what and how we’ll never know.
It didn’t take long to stoop to name calling, did it?
Actually, other than the bought and paid for media, I lay much of Congressman Hunter’s problems to seriously unskilled campaign management. I think that staunch conservatives are getting pretty fed up being mooned by the left. And the left isn’t only in the Dinocratic party either.
Just calling it like I see it, what with your conspiro-wacky slandering of Thompson.
Revisionist history from a Mittbot. How surprising...
So Fred did his job and at least took enough conservative votes to water down Mitt and Mike and let Juan McLame win the nomination and start losing the race.
I am constantly amazed at how many people on FR don't understand the concept that, in things like primary elections, you have a zero-sum game. When one guy gets a vote, the others guys lose that vote. Fred (ostensibly) wanted to win, and since he was conservative, would take away votes from other conservatives, as well as those like Romney who were pretending to be conservative. This isn't being a spoiler for McCain, it's called "running in a crowded primary field." Get over it.
And BTW, which is it? Was Fred in the race to steal votes from Huckabee, or was he in to steal votes from Romney, since you seem to be trying to advance both conspiracy theories, laughably, at the same time.
By your logic, how do we know that Romney and Huckabee weren't in the race to steal votes from Fred, hunh? How do we know Romney wasn't a spoiler who was in the race to keep Fred from getting anywhere and to give the nomination to McCain?
How do we know that Romney wasn't the spoiler instead?
You are confusing the term spoiled with spoiler. ; )
I’m convinced he was in it for the money
I lay a lot of the blame for DH's poor showing on his supporters. I liked DH, he was my number two choice, but his supporters here on Free Republic turned me off, bigtime. I hate to say it, but on the personal and grassroots level, unmitigated jerkwaddery can do a lot to drive people away from a campaign, and the completely unwarranted high horse attitude adopted by a lot of Duncanista FReepers gave their candidate a bad name.
And that, my FRiend, is the crux of the matter. Here is what I would like to see, from a thread I posted right after the election:
Close all republican presidential primaries. Allowing non party members to choose the nominees of the party makes as much sense as allowing China to vote in our national elections.
Establish five set dates for presidential primary elections between May and July of the year of the election. Separate the 50 states into five groups of ten states each. Rotate the groups each election cycle. Americans are paying billions of dollars for ethanol subsidies that have no practical purpose other than to set the ground work for members of congress seeking the Iowa caucus vote in the next presidential cycle.
I think if FReepers want to make a real contribution to national politics this would be a good place to start.
>Just calling it like I see it.....
LOL! I was just calling him (FDT) the way I see him. :)
Allow me to acquaint you with a few facts. FDT voted for the RNC to trash it’s Contract with America. That’s when I took a good hard look at anyone who favored abortion. Defeating Roe vs Wade was part of that contract. FDT was also closely involved with McCain’s shenanigans, such as McCain-Feingold, which gave George Soro o the power he has today. etc. Also FDT is very soft on amnesty Flor illegals. At least he was when he was campaigning.
Might be the dumbest thing you ever heard but Fred’s own actions support it. The thought I believe was to prevent the conservative vote from coalescing around a conservative candidate so as to deny McCain the nomination. IMHO Fred Thompson would have won the nomination if he had campaigned for it. These folks are quite capable of formulating and executing simple plans such as this. Why do you they couldn’t or wouldn’t?
You and I get it. Now if someone in the RNC can get their head out of their...
Absurd. Fred Thompson was the only real conservative among the five serious candidates: McCain, Romney, Rudy, Huckster, and Fred. There were no conservative candidates besides Fred who could have beaten McCain. That is why conservatives begged Fred to run.
Concur.
No one ran a good campaign, or else they wouldn’t have lost to a boob like McCain.
Yeah, some among us mistake facts for bashing. I guess knowing everything about a candidate before deciding to give him/her your vote is considred bad sense in some circles. Ah, well. So we all lost.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see.
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