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Would you vote for a Giuliani/Thompson ticket?
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| 03/13/07
| jdsteel
Posted on 03/13/2007 11:49:01 AM PDT by jdsteel
This makes sense to me, but what do you think? Would it ease the fears of the more conservative to have Thompson as veep? Since Fred was a Senator from Tennessee it makes sense to have a Southener paired up with a New Yorker. Rudy has a higher profile and is already high in the polls so he makes more sense as the Presidential canidate.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: giuliani; thompson
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To: jdsteel; All
Look, I'm voting R regardless. I
won't countenance keeping Democrats in power any more than I have to. That being said, Rudy has not convinced me he's the conservative we need in the White House.
Mitt has done a decent job selling himself (and please, that is WHAT all of them have to do)...and Fred Thompson does have a chance at my support.
I love Newt, but I don't think he's electable...just doesn't have it in the image department. Of course if he's the nominee, I'll vote for him.
Reagan was an awesome candidate for conservatives because he looked happy most of the time, he believed in America, and he exuded a positive point of view. Thank God he was also conservative...because I remember a smiling, happy, cheerful lookin' candidate who didn't have a conservative bone in him: Jimmy Carter. He got elected and it was a national nightmare.
Same with Clinton--he was pragmatic enough to support free trade and he was right about Iraq, even though now he pretends like he never said anything about it...but he, too, had a smiling image and was elected twice (by pluralities of the electorate and not majorities, though).
I'm certain Thompson, despite his rough exterior, could promote a positive image. Rudy is doing that too--but he isn't as conservative as I'd like. Mitt is also winning in the image department, and I do believe him when he says he's become more socially conservative over the past few years.
Just my opinion, probably more than you wanted, and I am flexible: heck, the primaries are MONTHS away still. :)
RD
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posted on
03/13/2007 2:15:10 PM PDT
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
I'll vote for no ticket which includes Guiliani. He's a pro abortion, pro gay marriage, gun-grabbing, open borders liberal. As mayor of New York, he refused to let his cops cooperate with federal immigration officers. Since illegal alien Muslims were in part reponsible for the first World Trade Center attack, his pandering to illegal foreigners was a criminal dereliction of duty. His anti-terror credentials are paper thin. He fawned over IRA supporters to pander to the Irish American vote in NYC.
I'd vote for Thompson but not in tandem with Rudy.
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posted on
03/13/2007 2:33:42 PM PDT
by
Godwin1
To: jdsteel
Hunter/Thompson
or
Thompson/Hunter
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posted on
03/13/2007 2:45:19 PM PDT
by
RaceBannon
(Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8...down to 3..GWB, we hardly knew ye...)
To: freeperfromnj
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posted on
03/13/2007 2:46:10 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
( Axis of Evil = Iran , North Korea , Rob and Amber)
To: jdsteel
185
posted on
03/13/2007 2:47:10 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(For Democrats; victory in Iraq is not an option!)
To: jdsteel
There's an awful lot of folks around these parts,
that if they found themselves dying of starvation,
would apparently turn down a perfectly good meal,
because it was not their favorite food.
To: jdsteel
I'm voting Republican, no matter who it is.
The Dummies are just nuts.
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posted on
03/13/2007 2:57:36 PM PDT
by
Collier
To: Repeal The 17th
We are not starving, so quit using that as an excuse.
Hmmnnn, I'm not hungry, are you?
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posted on
03/13/2007 3:46:13 PM PDT
by
dforest
(Liberals love crisis, create crisis and then dwell on them.)
To: jdsteel
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:02:26 PM PDT
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
To: Collier
I wanna vote Republican, too! But that ballot has a Dimocrat at the top and only one Republican on it. Give us another choice! No fair splitting the ticket this way.
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:09:15 PM PDT
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(Patriotism to DemocRats is like sunlight to Dracula.)
To: mad_as_he$$
I merely asked a further question. The thread posited a Guiliani/Thompson ticket. It is certainly not the ticket I would like to see the party putting up for election, and I won't be voting for Rudy in the primaries. Nonetheless, I haven't gotten the Republican candidate I wanted since Reagan. For my part, if I have to make this choice, I'll hold my nose and vote for Rudy. I was curious if others REALLY meant it when they said no, or were only saying "No, No, No! Don't put Rudy on top of the ticket just because we are scared of Hillary"
I agree that anointing Rudy the candidate just because many perceive him to have a better chance is copping out on the whole primary process. I hate the fact that in recent years our party in particular has pretty much handed the nomination to whichever candidate seemed likely to raise the most money.
As for two crappy choices, it's hard to get away from that since we know we are ALWAYS going to start out with ONE crappy choice.
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:10:56 PM PDT
by
free_for_now
(No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? - for shame!)
To: jdsteel
Yes. It is a million times better than anything else the dark side will offer.
dems win. America loses.
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:13:40 PM PDT
by
libsrscum
(NO dems for President!!)
To: jdsteel
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:14:12 PM PDT
by
southland
(Matt: 7-8)
To: jdsteel
I will be voting for the GOP ticket regardless!
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:14:17 PM PDT
by
onyx
(DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
To: jdsteel
No to Giuliani/Thompson.
Yes to Hunter/Thompson.
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:18:38 PM PDT
by
afnamvet
(It is what it is)
To: jdsteel
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:20:57 PM PDT
by
Politicalmom
(Thompson/Watts in 2008!!)
To: jdsteel
nope and will not vote for Giuliani/Vitter either.
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posted on
03/13/2007 4:40:20 PM PDT
by
Ellesu
To: jdsteel
To: jdsteel
Not my first choice, but as compared to Clinton-Obama ....
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posted on
03/13/2007 5:22:01 PM PDT
by
sphinx
To: free_for_now
OK, accepted.
People here need to say 100 time:
"Republican DOES NOT EQUAL Conservative."
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posted on
03/13/2007 6:34:17 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(The only difference between Rudy and Hillary is that Rudy has better legs..)
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