Posted on 12/26/2007 7:55:28 AM PST by Onerom99
Rumor circulating on the Fred08 blog that there is going to be a major "surprise" announcement coming this morning.
Perhaps an NRA endorsement or a major political figure?
You are obviously slow in reading the entire thread. Keep reading. Get back to me.
I’ve been out most of the afternoon and don’t want to wade through 500 posts to find out what Fred’s big surprise was. Do you know?
Occidental, not Standard Oil, but otherwise correct.
(Standard Oil was John D. Rockerfeller)
“Are you really that stupid? He has a JD as well as his MBA, but he didn’t practice law. He was a consultant for a management firm and then co-founded Bain Capital, the company behind the success of Staples, Brookstone, Domino’s, Sealy Corporation and Sports Authority.
There are reasons out there to dislike Romney, and I’m not going to try to convince you to vote for him. But that doesn’t justify your idiotic slander; he was a successful and legitimate businessman.
Don’t retract your statement, if that’s your wish, but you just leave yourself looking foolish.”
Great post.
Don’t underestimate the fact that envy plays a role with many of these Mitt-bashers.
Losers loathe winners.
“Rumor is...Huckster is against the war. OR at least not very supportive of it.”
No rumor.
Huck wants to appease Iran and close Gitmo.
“It’s my understanding he did it in a sarcastic way to put you and people like you in your place.”
What do you mean by “people like you”?
Thanks for correcting me. I was on the right track and hopefully the point was not lost by my inability to recall history related to an election cycle many, many years ago.
Still looking at all the candidates but have to admit that I feel people do not appreciate the quick wit, intelligence and quick thinking of Fred. His gun ownership answer, (yes,I own a few guns, but I’m not telling what they are or where I keep them, his show of hands reply ( I’m not doing show of hands today), and his answers already quoted here to the “year book like” questions demonstrate his “Truman like” attitudes. Not sure how these attributes would be advantageous in a Presidency but I sure have been amused at how people have reacted to his “character.” If they like Fred, his comments are brilliant, if they don’t like him, the same answers are stupid. Chris Matthews was disgusted with Fred’s trophy wife comment showing his complete inability to realize it was a jab at the MSM.
Conservatives also loathe liberals.
Guess the papers in New Hampshire are all anti-mormon:
The Union Leader
The Romney backlash: Conservatives are coming home
17 hours, 23 minutes ago
THERE IS A reason Mitt Romney has not received a single newspaper endorsement in New Hampshire. It’s the same reason his poll numbers are dropping. He has not been able to convince the people of this state that he’s the conservative he says he is.
Like a lot of people in New Hampshire, we wanted to believe Romney. We gave him the benefit of the doubt. We listened very carefully to his expertly rehearsed sales pitch. But in the end he didn’t close the deal for us. Now, two weeks before the primary, the same is happening with voters.
Republicans and right-leaning independents in New Hampshire gave Romney a chance. His events have not been sparsely attended. Nor have they been scarce. He’s made more campaign stops here this year than any other Republican, even John McCain.
And after a year of comparing Romney to McCain, of sizing up the two in person and in the media, Granite Staters are turning back to McCain. The former Navy pilot, once written off by the national media establishment, is now in a statistical dead heat with Romney here.
How could that be? Romney has all the advantages: money, organization, geographic proximity, statesman-like hair, etc.
But he lacks something John McCain has in spades: conviction.
Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them in the eye and tell them the truth. John McCain has done that day in and day out, never wavering, never faltering, never pandering.
Mitt Romney has not. He has spoken his lines well, but the people can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt.
Last week Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of “saw” is. It was only the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims — he’d been a hunter “pretty much” all his life, he’d had the NRA’s endorsement, he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. — that call into question the veracity of his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes and his affection for Ronald Reagan.
In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes. That is why Granite Staters who have listened attentively are now returning to John McCain. They might not agree with McCain on everything, as we don’t, but like us, they judge him to be a man of integrity and conviction, a man who won’t sell them out, who won’t break his promises, and who won’t lie to get elected.
Voters can see that John McCain is trustworthy. Mitt Romney has spent a year trying to convince Granite Staters that he is as well. It looks like they aren’t buying it. And for good reason.
“Kinda like when rush calls obama the majic negro.”
Rush is/was quoting the guy from LA Times.
I’m in the oil business — just re-read Seven Sisters the other day.
People who like to keep regurgitating the subject to keep Jeri Thompson and that term in the public mind together.
Fred was quoting—tweaking, mocking—the scumbags who said or insinuated that term about Jeri Thompson.
“Voters can see that John McCain is trustworthy.”
Sure. Just ask him about the Keating 5 savings and loan scandal.
McCain’s rally cry.......”OPEN BORDERS FOR ALL”
I don’t know what people are seeing in McCain. He is about as desirable as Ron Paul. Just in a different way.
“Has Fred’s announcement come out yet?”
Waiting For Fred.
Was that a Beckett play?
“I’d vote for him, but I doubt I’d be a precinct captain or anything. He’d certainly be better than anything the democrats hork up.”
Thanks for an honest answer.
Sorry you have lost me.
He's lost a lot more than just you.
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