IMHO, FRed is coming on as more Repubs get to know him better. They’re getting to know Rootie better, too. And quickly discovering that he’s a gun grabbing, queer loving, anti-life RINO. Not to be trusted.
Well, I’d say Thompson is recovering from the attacks the left and right launched against him.
And Rudy is starting to falter because people are questioning if he really can win if pro-lifers and various other conservative constituencies refuse to support him.
i DO think the variables here are Huckabee and Romney. Romney is saying what some people want to hear. I don’t think he can win, but if people buy his rhetoric vs his record he can sipher off needed votes. then there is Huckabee who IS a social conservative. Unfortunately that’s ALL he is. But that could serve as enough of an attraction to segue voters to his side.
I still hold the opinion outside of Hunter who doesn’t even register in the polls, the only one with a record to bring the GOP’s base to the polls reasonably content is Thompson. Enough people won’t trust Romney, and Huckabee will alienate on the war, border, and small government.
actually, there is someone else but I despise him and don’t want to express my fears he could be a default candidate at the last minute due to infighting...especially with the GOP’s bases tendency to nominate people who’s “turn” it is..
Fred is gaining by default. He’s a lousy candidate. But the door is wide open because the front runners are libs, and no one gives a crap about Duncan Hunter.
How eloquent and my feelings exactly.
That is exactly the way Fred s playing it too.
Two things are generally known about Rudy as far as most Republicans are concerned right now. He was good after 9/11 and he has an R after his name. From that many assume he is a conservative. As they learn about him now that they are beginning to pay attention, the will notice the R after his name is written in pencil over a scratched out barely hidden D.
The other side of that is Fred is doing things his way, a few voters at a time, not relying on the media as much yet and is moving steady towards the goal of the nomination. His opponents call him lazy because to them, since he is not playing their game, since he is letting Rudy and Mitt box each other, well he is lazy. Lazy like a Fox...
The fact is that Rudy is only getting less than a third of Reps. Even if he maintains that percentage thru the primaries, he is the most liberal candidate in the field. I don’t think he can win enough votes in the primaries to win the nomination outright. We could very well see a brokered convention with the more conservative candidates coming together to select a nominee other than Rudy.