Posted on 01/02/2008 9:00:41 AM PST by pissant
Two days before the Iowa caucuses — day 15 of his 17-day "hands down" bus tour — former senator Fred Thompson's campaign bus stood motionless in the snowy parking lot of a West Des Moines motel, across from a movie theater and a suburban strip mall.
Thompson's campaign scheduled only one event for New Year's Day, a meet-and-greet at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, about an hour outside Des Moines. Thompson, R-Tenn., shunned the bus, emblazoned with his picture, for the relative comfort of a black Chevrolet Suburban.
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Thompson has staked his campaign's prospects to Iowa. In seeking to jump-start his campaign last month, he promised to crisscross the Hawkeye State with visits to 50 cities and towns in 17 days aboard his new campaign bus.
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ROFLMSS!!!!!!
My point EXACTLY!!!!
LOL, pissant wanted me to kiss the ring, but I wouldn't.
Here's what Novak is predicting:
If Hunter drops out, I will not be enthussiatic about anyone, but would vote for Fred, assuming he’s still in the race.
If Hunter drops, I don’t think he would endorse anyone until they win the primary. He had a gentlemens agreement with Tanc to endorse the other, but we can see how that worked out. LOL
What, you*d rather switch than fight? Or cut off your nose to spite your face? Hope you remember this year when a RINO is President and his (or her) Gestapo comes for your firearms.
Well, Novak picked Mccain too, if I recall in 2000.
Aww man, what's a brutha ta do?
It will be Hunter!
Sorry, but I will not get into that kind of a pi$$ing contest.
Discussing the merits of candidates’ stances on issues or even the quality of campaigns is one thing, and a good thing. Attacting each other personally over their support for a particular candidate is an entirely different thing, and not a good thing. Attacking other candidates for the sake of attacking them in some misguided idea of bolstering one’s preferred candidate is in that same category.
I don’t play those kind of games.
You gotta be on crack. A candidate thats only raised a couple million dollars so far is going nowhere. You might as well start looking for a good third party to vote for ...right about...NOW!
Fred currently is in the worst shape of the top five candidates. He absolutely has to win SC and come in no worse than 3rd in two of the remaining states, because once you get to Super Tues then the next few primaries, if he hasn't shown he can win by then, people will (quite naturally, IMHO) think they have to go with a viable candidate. Rudy is the only one who doesn't have to win any of the first four, and can even come in 3rd in 3 or all 4 of them and still be in good shape.
Actually, I think "L&O" has hurt Fred, because a lot of people want him to be THAT guy (who appears to have more drive and energy than the real Fred), and he isn't. He's much lower-key than "Arthur Branch, DA."
ROFLMAO!
Gestapo?!?!?!?
Which RHINO is the gestapo candidate?
Anyway, where did I say I was switching? Or are you referring to someone else? I am a Thompson supporter, that’s what I said.
Wagering is a man-thing. I don’t wager. I’ll be disappointed if Thompson ever drops out. It will be as everyone expected if Hunter drops out.
Rush has been quite accurate in saying that the Huckster got a complete pass from the drive-bys because they wanted him to be the nominee. They have dropped him because he is so Ron-Paulish as to be ridiculous. His "non-commercial commercial" was, I think, the last straw, though for the drive-bys. No one could ignore that.
Ah, as I expected. More than a few fredheads would vote in a PRIMARY for a RINO. Fortunately, many won’t. Cheers.
Huck has issues too though. McCain won’t make it because the GOP will not take the risk he will lose it in the general among other things.
We start to run out of folks. Ironically there were some that took all this into account a few months ago.
Fred was brought in via a “grass roots” movement, but something (or someone, or a group of someones) gave that initial movement a little encouraging “nudge” and for a good reason.
Sorry, wrong number! I hear Thompson people saying they*ll vote for a RINO if he drops out and it makes me wonder what in he$$ they are using for brains. And yes, a rino gets in and we will have a Gestapo with marching orders.
“Actually, I think “L&O” has hurt Fred, because a lot of people want him to be THAT guy (who appears to have more drive and energy than the real Fred), and he isn’t. He’s much lower-key than “Arthur Branch, DA.””
Yeah I think Fred gets compared to his TV character, and that’s unfortunate, because his personal style is a 180 from that. Still it seems like he could have jazzed his delivery up a bit. I don’t understand the strategy of “I’m Just Fred” it obviously isn’t overwhelming anybody. Fred entered the race officially as a real contender, and now he needs an 11th hour miracle just to stay viable until Super Tuesday.
That was no attack, no game. That was a statement of fact based on months of experience. Pissant has been tearing down FRed Thompson since some time in June and continuing all through the summer and fall— posting item after item after item to portray Thompson as a fake conservative, as pro-choice. He’s tried to portary Thompson as a pro-choice lobbyist. It’s gone on and on and on. People have asked him over and over since June why he chose to attack another conservative rather than focusing on building up his own candidate. He’s been suspended by the owner for carrying it too far. This is definitely no game. It’s a pattern and it’s “In Forum” for all to see.
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