RCP average:
Huckabee: 27.8
McCain:22.5
Romney: 16.5
Thompson: 9.3
The guy with 9.3 needs to get votes from both 27.8 and 22.5. Thompson's supporters, not being Evangelical Huckbots, are more likely to come from McCain. Thompson did not utter a discouraging word about McCain. He could have slammed McCain easily on Amnesty, but noooooo... only my good friend disagrees. It is obvious Fred is in thrall to McCain. It isn't just this debate, it has been the entire campaign. Try to find any Fred criticism of McCain, you'll have hours of fruitless searching. If you go to the Fred08 site, Romney is mentioned only to be attacked, and McCain is mentioned only when he is in agreement with an attack on Romney.
Fred is kissy-face with McCain, who should be his rival. I predict that Fred will not at all attack McCain the remainder of the campaign, that Fred will endorse McCain the day after SC, and that Fred will have some role in McCain's campaign.
I further predict that Petronski will post some more lame spam graphic, or some stupid childish taunt, rather than discussing this intelligently.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
Fred Thompson, Riled [Peter Robinson]
Just got off the line with someone close to the Thompson campaign—and, more to the point, to Thompson himself. His reading of what took place tonight? Fred Thompson was riled.
“Nothing ever upset Fred Thompson more than the story [on the day of the Iowa caucuses] that he was considering dropping out to endorse McCain.” Thompson, my friend explained, has a kind of Reagan-like innocence about him. He can’t understand why anyone would circulate such a rumor—or how the rumor has remained alive. “He’s just not the sort of person who would drop out. He likes John McCain, always has. But endorse McCain? Are you kidding? He took a swipe at McCain tonight. Didn’t everybody see that? That’s not how you get to be somebody’s running mate. Anyway, the idea that Fred is the kind of person who would run for vice president is just absurd.”
01/10 11:19 PM
I guess you live your life by looking at the lying polls? The polls should just choose the next POTUS! Why the heck not?
Sorry to say, thus far we are fortunate in that the polls do not run this country.
That’s idiotic.
C’mon, give us your A-game.
Ahh yes, the Romney Sleaze Machine Prime Directive in action.
Will you be having another meltdown tonight?
“Fred is kissy-face with McCain, who should be his rival. I predict that Fred will not at all attack McCain the remainder of the campaign, that Fred will endorse McCain the day after SC, and that Fred will have some role in McCain’s campaign”
Agreed.
BS! You don't know what you are talking about.