No. I want to beat Hillary. If it means going with someone a bit to the left of me I’m ok with it.
Earlier in the thread someone wrote that Thompson is down 5 points on Hillary. He’s down 5.5 in the RCP average. The argument is that he is unknown and so his numbers may rise. Hillary has 50 percent unfavorables. So even with being relatively unknown, Thompson should be even with Hillary if half the electorate hates her. Maybe I’m wrong. I’ll concede that. But maybe I’m not. Clearly I’m outnumbered here, but there are plenty of people, Giuliani supporters, and supporters of other GOP candidates that share my view of Thompson. I just really hope we’re not throwing this away.
when you boil all that down, i am afraid what you are left with is the old “only Rudy can beat Hillary” line of crap and that has been discredited here long ago. the reason fred is doing as well as he is, before he has even entered the race, is the extreme dissatisfaction with the field of republican candidates. NO ONE is enthused about them. Fear of hillary will only do so much and it won’t get boots on the ground, and $$$$ contributed to a lackluster candidate who is only grudingly supported by people who are voting simply because they are terrified of a hillary win. that’s why rudy can’t win. that, and the fact that libs are going to vote for a dem, not dem-lite rudy.
So you have no problem placing politics over principle? It used to be that the idea was to win in order to advance your principles. Now it seems that the idea is to retard your principles in order to win.
Giuliani may be a “bit to the left” of you, but he’s so far left of me that I can’t tell he’s there.