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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Exactly. And the idea anyone’s campaign hopes should hing on the returns from Iowa or New Hampshire, is just plain nuts.
For the record, we’re talking about somethink like 0.0015% of the potential voters in November 2008, making or breaking someone. What nonsense...
I wish you were right, but the Christian conservatives will go to the Huckster; the fiscal conservatives will go to Mitt. Some will go to McCain because, well, they don’t know any better.
I think Duncan is fantastic. However, as much as I like to B & M, I don’t want to be complaining about having Mitt or Rudy as a nominee.
Un huh. I hear he is under investigation by the FBI too. A Freeper told me.
You are a great poster. I disagree but hey, it’s all good
Go ahead, hold your breath.
Which is a shame. I'd have loved to see Hunter do well in the race.
Nice to see somethings don’t change with the new year.
Good to see you a man of your convictions and that you
keep chosing to bash Fred instead of going positive on
your candidate.
I am beginning to think that you are Fred obsessed...
yawns.
Interesting,
It seems the candidate with the fewer supporters and even less cash would be the one to drop out.
The reality is that kook paul has more money in the bank than hunter.
The reality is while MSM is proping up McCain again with free airtime, hunter is not even registering in the polls.
LOL! Now that is a good retort.
Wow, relishing an investigation of Duncan Hunter...
Did Jim sell the forum to DU or MoveOn dot org, or are you folks just on the wrong forum?
Look, if o.wd doesn't vote for Hunter, then s/he is a baby-killing Communist who just doesn't love America! A Freeper told me that, too.
Stumbles ?
You don’t like Fred Thompson either?
I loved it! Especially the part about there being more important differences between himself and another (Democratic) opponent than their campaign schedules.
There’s that, too.
Other than a few comments here and there I avoided the vast majority of ‘08 race threads throughoutout ‘07. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been paying attention, it’s just that I felt it was far to early.
Heck the prognositicating for ‘08 started the morning after Election Day ‘04 here on FR.
It’s now ‘08, now I’ll start participating a bit more.
hahahahahaha................Man, you are way off if you consider the other candidates to be conservative!!!!!!!!!
Fred is THE ONLY CONSERVATIVE. Thats why he campaigns within his budget.
If your other so called “conservatives” lead by example, they will tax us and spend like a drunken demoRat.
A good package like Fred don’t need to spend millions of dollars “convincing people” how badly he wants the job.
Man..............your idea of what is conservative is wayyyyyyyy off!!
Nope. Just a durn fool.
I like Fred and will vote for him if he’s the nominee, just that I’m not going to worship him like most FReepers do.
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