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Low-Key Thompson Stumbles Toward Finish Line
ABC ^ | 1/2/08 | Rick Klein

Posted on 01/02/2008 9:00:41 AM PST by pissant

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To: pissant

Thanks. I’m still wondering why you folks seem to go negative on folks like Thompson and Hunter. They’re the two we need the most.


41 posted on 01/02/2008 9:23:57 AM PST by DoughtyOne (< fence >< sound immigration policies >< /weasles >< /RINOs >< /Reagan wannabees that are liberal >)
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To: Honeybunch

Yup!!!!

Even my husband was cheering at him him on the TV!!!!


42 posted on 01/02/2008 9:24:32 AM PST by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: DoughtyOne

Fred didn’t spend enough money on tv commercials for them to be excited.
The media won’t promote the ones who don’t advertise heavily. Advertising is not free. So they will ignore anyone not lining their pockets.


43 posted on 01/02/2008 9:25:31 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: o_zarkman44
Fred is THE ONLY CONSERVATIVE. Thats why he campaigns within his budget.

Oh, c'mon now. Duncan Hunter would campaign within his budget too - if he had funds to budget.

44 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:03 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Fred Head and proud of it! Fear the Fred!)
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To: DoughtyOne

If Fred pulls it out, he will be one of the few I’d vote for without having to go to confession the next morning. Right now, he is sucking oxygen from Hunter, so he should drop out.


45 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:17 AM PST by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: Gabz

I agree. That’s been my take as well. People don’t really start paying attention until about a month before elections. Any polls run before that are basically irrelevent. Even then, they are generally skewed toward the leftists. You have to be very careful about what you buy into early on. And that’s why I also avoid shopping early.


46 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:19 AM PST by DoughtyOne (< fence >< sound immigration policies >< /weasles >< /RINOs >< /Reagan wannabees that are liberal >)
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To: agere_contra; pissant
I guess pissant prefers reporting from ABC?! There are many other reports of Fred's Iowa bus campaign which are very favorable.

Here is a link to another thread of a more conservative analysis of Fred's Iowa retail politics from Human Events: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947169/posts

47 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:28 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: o_zarkman44

Spot On....Which is why the MSM is so anxious to do everything in their power to kill his campaign.


48 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:32 AM PST by Rational Thought
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To: Neu Pragmatist

Another attempt to shape the course of human events from a Liberal Weenie Headline Writer.


49 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:36 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Guess what? I'm voting for the Conservative.)
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To: pissant
...day 15 of his 17-day "hands down" bus tour...


50 posted on 01/02/2008 9:26:49 AM PST by McGruff (A "Big Time" Fred Thompson supporter!)
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To: o_zarkman44
Fred didn’t spend enough money on tv commercials for them to be excited.

My question is this - lately, there's been a lot of nonsense flying around about Fred's campaign being broke - but he DID raise several millions last quarter, didn't he? How could he be broke this quickly?

51 posted on 01/02/2008 9:27:09 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Fred Head and proud of it! Fear the Fred!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I wonder who Hunter is going to endorse when he withdraws next week?


52 posted on 01/02/2008 9:28:08 AM PST by Russ
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To: pissant
I have made it a policy not to post to those with whom I disagree with on this Forum, but in your case I will make a one time exception.

Pizant, as a Hunter supporter your attacking Fred not only makes no sense, it diminishes the great candidate you do support. I know I am not alone on the Forum who think this and feel you are so tiresome.

Grow up and get a life would be my suggestion, but I know you are so full of your cutesy little self that you can't even begin to comprehend what I am talking about.

53 posted on 01/02/2008 9:28:14 AM PST by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?" --Greg Adams--Brownsville, TX --On the other Front Line)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

It would be unforunate if Thompson or Hunter lost - they are the only real conservatives in the race and the only true Rpeublicans. The others are merely “better than Hillary or Obama” (except for McLame who is not a whit different from his opponents on the other side of the isle).


54 posted on 01/02/2008 9:28:50 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: rightinthemiddle

I would say unreal , but we are used to it by now .


55 posted on 01/02/2008 9:29:00 AM PST by Neu Pragmatist (Fred Thompson : Truly Conservative and Truly pro-gun ... unlike some others we know ..)
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To: o_zarkman44

Fred doesn’t seem inclined to sell his soul for the office. I kindof like that. He has a life outside of politics and he’s not looking like he wants to give that up either. Good for him.


56 posted on 01/02/2008 9:29:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne (< fence >< sound immigration policies >< /weasles >< /RINOs >< /Reagan wannabees that are liberal >)
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To: org.whodat
Hunter has also drawn criticism for accepting $46,000 from un-indicted co-conspirators implicated in bribing Hunter’s friend and San Diego colleague, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who resigned from Congress after pleading guilty.

That's pretty disturbing.

Duke sold out the troops to line his own pockets. No honorable man can possibly take money from someone associated with that scandal.

What was Hunter's rationale for not returning the money?

57 posted on 01/02/2008 9:29:33 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: Russ
I wonder who Hunter is going to endorse when he withdraws next week?

I doubt Hunter will be withdrawing anytime soon. More likely, he'll keep spinning his wheels all the way to Minneapolis.

58 posted on 01/02/2008 9:30:34 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Fred Head and proud of it! Fear the Fred!)
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To: pissant

For whatever reason, Hunter hasn’t caught on. I don’t think there’s much chance he will. Thompson is the fall-back position, and if Fred is who he seems to be, he may pick Hunter as his running mate. That’s a ticket I could endorse easily.

Thanks for the response.


59 posted on 01/02/2008 9:30:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne (< fence >< sound immigration policies >< /weasles >< /RINOs >< /Reagan wannabees that are liberal >)
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To: pissant
LOL, who writes these stories? OH... nevermind, it's just another ABC guilt-ridden-whiney-@ssed-bedwetter (definition here).

I get the impression, these MSM folks are actually scared of what Thompson represents... and that makes me smile :-)

60 posted on 01/02/2008 9:31:24 AM PST by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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