I love Fred, but I don’t see it happening. Palin, DeMint, Liz Cheney perhaps?
The 2012 ticket will be
Perry/Palin
I have said so for years now.
I admire Thompson, but Palin is the future.
We need to start preparing for the fight ahead while at the same time, recognize our conservative ideals from the past given to us by great men like Goldwater and Reagan.
So, why not nominate and elect the best conservative we can for 2012 and not 1980. Hopefully, the conservative will run...because, in the end, we can only vote for those conservatives that take up the challenge and run for office.
I ~yawn~ like Fred Thompson ~zzzzz~ and hoped to see him catch fire and campaign ~yawn~ energetically in 2008. He might be a good president ~zzzzz~ or maybe not,but he’s a terrible candidate so we would never find out.
Nap time. ~zzzzZZzzzzzzzzZZZZzz~
Fred Thompson was a great candidate in 2008. And the idea that he was lazy was basically a media lie. He actually did more campaigning than McCain, but the media had agreed on its propaganda meme: Fred is lazy and boring.
If you had the chance to watch him on YouTube, he was very impressive, warm, and amusing. You didn’t have an opportunity to watch him in the media, because they never gave him the chance. They were busy pushing Mitt and Huck and other spoilers, in the hopes that either McCain or Rudy would win the primary.
So, yes, I think Thompson’s a good man. But he had his chance and now that’s over. There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that he can get nominated next time around. Too bad, but there it is.
This is merely another “block Sarah” article. Mitt and Huck are just as conservative as she is? You can stop believing that he’s telling the truth right there.
Thompson a great communicator? Hah! He is as great a communicator as McCain and we saw how that worked out. Thompson would drag a ticket down just like McCain and Dole did.
Another thing...
Thompson in 2008 was age 66 - old but okay.
Thompson in 2012 will be 70.
Too many people showed they will not again vote for somebody who will be over 70 (Dole or McCain) due to concerns about their health and mental ability.
Due to HUBRIS the Republican Party is very likely to nominate somebody so old or so far right or so unknown that we will again clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
If not Palin, then surely somebody more electable -- and that ain't Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Thompson or even Hunter.
I'm still looking for that alternative, but meanwhile still keep coming back to Sarah Palin.
A Thompson/Palin ticket I'm afraid would suffer the same fate as a McCain/Palin ticket.
If 0bama is replaced by Hillary Clinton as the Democrat nominee then maybe Palin/Petraeus?
From the article: “Sarah Palin, rightly beloved by nearly all conservatives for her honesty, her advocacy, and her spunk, will figure into any list of candidates.”
Right now, Palin looks stilted and scripted when she appears in public, probably because she’s been to so many book signings and appeared on so many talk shows. I think she’s trying to get through the next year or so of interviews without giving the liberal press too much new material with which to attack her.
That said, there’s no question in my mind that she would surround herself with principled conservatives if elected president and that the U.S. would be in far better hands than it is now. Principles count, and hers align with mine, probably more so than with any other candidate right now. Certainly more so than a Romney, McCain or even Thompson.
(And then there’s the fun we would have watching the left deal with the Republican Party voting in the first female President.)
Nope. I campaigned for Fred Thompson. Sent him money and made calls from home. I was a lot more enthussiastic about a President Fred Thompson then Fred Thompson was! I have come to the reluctant conclusion that Fred never intended to win the nomination he was in only as a stalking horse for John McCain. He and Huckabee played their parts well. They split the conservative vote so the RINOS had the race to themselves. Won’t fall for that again.
He won’t run; he doesn’t want the job; he’s too smart and he knows the truth. The truth is that regardless of who sits in the oval office, they are only a mere puppet to the powers that be behind the scenes and the script will be played out regardless.
I think Thompson (actually, both Fred and Jeri) is probably going to wind up being a key player on Palin’s team. I think they’re going to be power-brokers this time around, not running Fred himself for the office.
My money is on the beauty pageant winner. Winning the presidency will seem like a cakewalk compared to those competitions. Sarah Palin knows how to play to win. I mean, she beat a Republican incumbent governor in the primary.
DeMint 2012.
The dems would have an absolute cow.
Fred ran a horrible campaign in 2008. No thanks!
Barbour 2012
In order to become President and then to be a great President our candidate will need the physical stamina and the innate desire to present conservative ideology forcefully and persuasively at venues large and small across the country for months and years on end. Reagan did this over a period of decades and continuing into his Presidency. (It should be noted that Reagan’s strength and acuity was waning during his Presidency and that there was a cost to this.) Fred Thompson had his moment handed to him in 2008. He simply did not step up to history for whatever reason. This is simply a fact. If Fred Thompson had what it takes he would have run a very different campaign in 2008. Fred should stick to commentary.
Oh geez, Fred Thompson?