[xcamel]

[((ping))]

[Always Right]

Fred is in the game now. His bankroll will quickly grow, he will get more key endorsements and his polls numbers will rise close to 20%.

[sweet_diane]

"Picture an announcement event replete with bunting, American flags, families, barbeque, country music artists and marching bands playing a nonstop chorus of Rocky Top."

My ears...MY EARS!

"Even the most rabid Gator, Bulldog or Crimson Tide Republicans will not be able to hear the Volunteers’ stirring anthem that day without tapping their toes and embracing Thompson’s candidacy."

I like Fred and will more than likely vote for him given the chance...yet I guarantee you one thing, I will not be tapping my toes to Rocky Top! lol This Crimson Tide Republican (love that name) will respectfully plug her ears. :)

[Red Badger]

Fred’s strategerie is absolutely brilliant..............He’ll make one heluva President.....President Thompson......has a great ring to it!...........

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Welll GooooooLLLLyyyyy. The tone of this article is insulting at best. It seems that I as a conservative must love country music, (I don’t personally I am a die hard Rocker). I must LOVE college football. (I don’t even pay attention to it and never did). I must also not be capable of keeping an open mind about people because they happen to have the misfortune of being from New York or Massachusetts, (therefore I am a bigot.... not). And I must like Fred Thompson because he is from the south.

Rest assured that I will place MY VOTE for the candidate that can convince me he can pull this country back from the brink of extinction where we currently hover thanks to the current administration and the Immigration reform bill. I wont care if its Thompson, Romney or Guliani. It WONT be McCain... I don’t vote for traitorous bastards.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Fred is going to rise to the top quickly!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Does he have a website up yet to make a contribution directly to his campaign?

[NavyCanDo]

I had a note stuck under my winsdhield wiper this weekend that said, “Where did you get that Bumper Sticker? I want one”. and he left his phone number. I have a Fred Thompson bumper sticker on the car for weeks.

Here is one plece they are available....
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/fred%20thompson/-/cfpt2_/x_15/cfpt_/source_searchBox/copt_/y_11

[Don Corleone]

Liked the song....not too sure about the man.

[NavyCanDo]

Cafepress.com has a GREAT new Fred Thompson Bumper Sticker. I’m ordering one today.

FRED THOMPSON-PRESIDENT ‘08

$400 Haircut Not Required

And it shows just the top of Fred’s bald head. It fantastic. I’m ordering one today.

[SWEETSUNNYSOUTH]

I saw most of his speech at the Virginia Republican dinner last Saturday night. He sure sounds like He is running to me. I think he’s our best hope. No one is going to satisfy everybody but Fred sure talks my way.

[Silly]

FDT: The Top Rock

[SE Mom]

Wow...this fellow gets it!

[Jim Noble]

He's from Manhattan, now.

No more phony homeboys, no more cowboy hats.

Let's get a real person, for a change.

[Uncle Miltie]

What we really need is not a restatement of Reagan. He was a man for his times.

We need a new man (or woman) for his times. Threats to liberty are Islamofascism, creeping socialism, and envirowackoism. These are not intellectually difficult to defeat.

We just need a leader with b*lls.

[jmc813]

Last week, folks were saying that today would be the first day that one could donate to the exploratory committee. Any word on this?

[gcruse]

Is Fred really from Rocky Top? That piece of music has been one of my favorites all my life. How fitting.

[RJS1950]

There will never be another Reagan. A clone or reincarnation of RR is not what the voters are looking for. They are looking for someone who is honest about their views, plain speaking, and a candidate who fits the “what you see is what you get” mold. They want someone who understands the real problems that the war on terror, winning in Iraq, closing the border with no amnesty and keeping taxes low bring to this country. Finally they want someone who will stick to and uphold the constitution as written and who is not afraid to thumb his nose at the dems and take an unpopular stand that is the right thing to do. I think that Fred Thompson fills that bill. He is not Reagan and I would not want him to be. I want him to be himself and up front about who he is.

[dfwgator]

Even the most rabid Gator, Bulldog or Crimson Tide Republicans will not be able to hear the Volunteers’ stirring anthem that day without tapping their toes and embracing Thompson’s candidacy.

That will be the first, and only time, I won't mind hearing that song.

But I like my version better:

Rocky Top
You'll always be
Second in the SEC!!!!