Posted on 05/06/2007 11:16:43 PM PDT by jedward
Edited on 05/22/2007 11:41:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
“Maybe it’s just me, but I find “tiers” to be a creation of the leftist media designed to push their preferred candidates and to dismiss the remainder.”
I agree, and you’ve helped me make that point :)
“In your opinion, what does categorizing the candidates into tiers accomplish?”
See above (lol).
“As to the specific assignment of categories, I wonder what the criteria was that was applied.”
You’re asking the right questions. It was indeed random, even to the point when I moved a few, I meesed up the links :)
“I’d probably list them in alphabetical order and let folks make up their own mind, but that’s just me.”
I like that idea.
“I understand the inclusion of Gingrich and Thompson; I don’t understand the inclusion of Alan Keyes.”
Simply because I wanted to give him exposure. I know, it’s biased, and I admit that :)
Maybe you could ping a person or two to your questions, because the discussion is very relevant and helpful!
I'll ping you if I can find that speech, but in the meantime, you might want to check out some of his others:
Here is an excellent example of Fred at his very best. This particular clip comes from BEFORE 9/11. It shows an example, not only of a guy with fantastic communications skills, but of a guy who definitely 'gets it'. Even when 'getting it' wasn't all that popular.
Here's a bit from his speech in Connecticut last week that deals with immigration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H3zhZu0S5w
Here's the entire speech in CT:
http://www.latestpolitics.com/blog/2007/05/fred-thompson-in-ct-the-full-video.html
Here's Fred on Fox News, when he first announced that he was 'leaving the door open'.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snw7_6mJf5c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3z4mqRn7I
Here is Fred's speech at the Lincon Club last month, which some folks, (mostly Robert Novak) were not very impressed with. I enjoyed the speech. Admittedly, it wasn't Fred's best speech ever, but I still thought it was quite good. This is in 4 parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3z4mqRn7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhJ5dy_MTxY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6th2VJDWO0Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8rwX_mzvQQ
Fred Thompson also has another quality that none of the other candidates have. He has an ability to manipulate the media and ideas that involve using the internet in new ways during the course of his campaign. A little taste of this can be had by looking into the now famous sparring that Fred had with Michael Moore several weeks ago.
That incident started with This idiotic challenge from Michael Moore.
This was Fred's response:
You may also be interested in checking out Fred’s commentary today, which is brief, but addresses political correctness and how it can hamstring our ability to fight the WOT:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844764/posts
Don’t forget to watch the GOP debate tomorrow at 7 p.m. - TEN STILL STANDING!
You can also listen online:
Duncan Hunter’s bill to build an 850 mile fence was the one that the president signed into law. Hunter promised that as president, he would have the fence built in six months.
As of now, they are dragging their feet, and only have 11 miles of the fence built. Hunter said on Sean Hannity’s that at that rate, the fence won’t be built for 20 years.
The country needs Duncan Hunter.
Good grief. More L. Ron astroturf: a blog touting a non-scientific internet poll.
LOL
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