Posted on 02/02/2008 4:17:35 PM PST by Maelstorm
I second that emotion.
All I can think of is “Send in the Clowns.”
GEESH!
Can we get a show of hands on this?
Me too.
I agree...so where was Fred when it counted? sorry, not thrilled with Fred.
Gee, I’m so sorry he ran out of money.
I miss Fred TERRIBLY. And I don’t know who I’ll vote for next Tuesday. ugh
I sorta’ thought the American voter let Fred down? ;-)
It may not be so much missing Fred as much as it is being depressed at the remaining choices.
You are a Mitt supporter. You are letting all conservatives down because he certainly isn’t one. McCain with all his faults is more conservative than Romney’s record. Check the club for growth check the conservative ratings. As for Thompson letting anyone down. Conservatives let him down by chasing after posers. You see the debates? We have two front runners that on many issues only disagree little with the left. They even speak the language of “change”.
I was already to vote for him ... and waited PATIENTLY through NUMBEROUS false hopes and then FINALLY, he announced and he fell asleep. In the last debate he showed some life but it was too late. No tears here. Pissed.
Nobody who wants to be president should be allowed to be president.
That was the strongest recommendation I could think of for Fred.
What can we do to convince the shiny-loafered pubby elite that we will not accept either McNutball or Romney?
I will be voting for Fred in the VA primary. It will be interesting who the final nominee is. This election is going to be more about VPs on the GOP side than it is about the nominee.
Split the vote. Force a brokered convention.
LOL!
He had no passion.
It’s up to the one running to get folks fired up.
He didn’t deliver.
“Split the vote. Force a brokered convention.”
Okay. How do we do that?
same here...onward to a Brokered National GOP Convention.
LOL! :)
“It’s up to the one running to get folks fired up.”
Really? A candidate has to be a demagogue? A cool appeal to the intellect can’t succeed?
I really don’t like what that says about the electorate.
Feel free to vote for Mc Pain in the arse.
Doesn’t like tax cuts.
Now, wants to build a fence and then give illegals AMNESTY.
He’s a soclal liberal ... and on and on it goes.
McPain in the arse disgusts me and I can’t imagine ANY devcent human veing, let alone a conservative vote for the cretin in good conscience.
We’re voting for Mitt!!!
Let the LIBERAL rags endorse McPain - NYT, Boston Globe ... I could care less. He’s a LIBERAL.
I really don’t like what that says about the electorate.”
It speaks worse about who’s running.
I had plans of voting for Fred. Half the time he looked like he was napping. I have to hand it to him, he’s almost the WORST public speaker I’ve ever seen. The content was good when he did chose to speak but other than that, he was a HUGE disappointment.
Early on, while he was making up his mind wheather to run or not he made his plans clear.
On Fox and other venues, he stated that he would put his ideas and thoughts out there and if the American voter agreed, he would run with all his might. After the first few caucuses and other areas that gave vent to the voter’s preferences, he didn’t catch on. His only conclusion … the majority of American voters didn’t like what he had to say! So, he has gone fish’n, just like he said he would if rejected.
He didn’t run out of money. I’m voting for Fred because the others are just a degree different. McCain has the most substance of all of them but I’m not sure if the substance is fertilizer or not. Mitt and Huckabee are horribly devoid of substance so I suppose they are shitless. I just hope for a split vote.
FRED THOMPSON (dropped out)
Total receipts to date: (includes contributions for the primary and general elections, loans and transfers) $21.8 million, including $158,163.00 for the general election
Total contributions to date: $21.7 million
Total spending: $19.7 million
Fourth quarter contributions: $8.9 million
Fourth quarter spending: $14 million
Fourth excursion transfers or loans: None
Cash on hand: $2.1 million
Debt: $404,221.35
That’s very childish.
It’s up to every politician to SELL his message.
Perhaps it’s for the best that he withdrew. You can’t run a country with shall we say, such a delicate personality.
If everyone just voted for the true conservative, Duncan Hunter, instead of saying he doesn’t stand a chance, we wouldn’t be in this sad predicament!!!!
Yeah but those early primary crossover democrats and independents didn’t know much about him.
LOL! Ok ... !
Yup, bump that. Fred stole all the oxygen out of the room and did nothing with it. Thanks for nuthin’, Fred.
I really don’t like what that says about the electorate.
***McCain and Romney are vying for the republican nomination. I really don’t like what that says about the electorate.
Some of us suspect that the electorate has been manipulated. I really don’t like what that says about the electorate and the manipulators, which would be the MSM and the RINOs.
They ought to clean out every desk and those people attached to them at the RNC in DC as well.
What is the responsibility of the ELECTORATE? huh? To sit on their asses and wait “somebody” to “do something!”? It’s not the politicians, it’s the damn so-called people. Fred didn’t sell his message? What the H*** is Obama selling? a dream, a fantasy, social equality? If the “people” would think for a second and stop looking for the quick lazy fix, then they could really ask the candidates deep questions. Instead, the “masses” expect that when Obama gets in, they can stick it to the “white man” and live on easy street. Who’s being childish?
“Half the time he looked like he was napping”
Are you saying he was lying down? His eyes were closed?
As you can see, your criticism of Thompson has no substance. I can only conclude you are not being honest.
“Yup, bump that. Fred stole all the oxygen out of the room and did nothing with it.”
I spoke with hundreds of SC voters who really liked Thompson, in fact they liked his politics better than any other candidate’s, but voted for Huckabee or McCain. They thought Thompson couldn’t win.
Only because they believed the empty media propaganda. Idiots like Krauthammer and Kristol repeated it for months.
So who does thrill you?
Fred who?
Unfortunately, Fred wanted to be anointed. He didn’t want to sell anything. He wanted others to guess at what he wanted as his vision. People were uninspired. He fizzled out.
The last debate he was in, he FINALLY CAME ALIVE!!!
I was thrilled for him. I hoped he might COME ALIVE again but no, he withdrew. It’s better than he withdrew. Nice guy, good message but “no fire in the belly”. I had wanted to vote for him too - very disappointing.
“The content was good when he did chose to speak but other than that, he was a HUGE disappointment.”
I’ll be direct. Your assessment is retarded.
The content of Thompson’s speeches was there, but you say he was a disappointment because he didn’t lie, appease, flipflop or put on some kind of theatrical perfomance? Because he was the only candidate acting like a man?
You: I’ll be direct. Your assessment is retarded.
Me: I must be direct as well. You’re very immature and not wanting to face reality.
You: The content of Thompson’s speeches was there, but you say he was a disappointment because he didn’t lie, appease, flipflop or put on some kind of theatrical performance? Because he was the only candidate acting like a man?
Me: I stated, if you could get a grip on yourself ... I stated his content was good but he didn’t SELL his message. That’s part of politics. I couldn’t tell you if he lied, flip=flopped or appeased. I didn’t check that closely up on him because he didn’t last very long.
Speaking if his “performance” it was a atrocious. I’m not a Law and Order fan so I hadn’t seen him “perform: before but I have to sat he is one of the WORST public speakers I have even been forced to endure. He mumbled. He looked down. He looked DSEFEATED. He looked TIRED. No, I don’t call that acting like a LEADER. It’s best Fred did withdraw.
You can whine about it forever but it won’t change the fact that the “reluctant” candidate, simply didn’t have what it takes to deliver his message and get folks on board and WIN. So, go ahead, have your tantrum. Fred was a disappointment. He didn’t get his wish to do nothing and be anointed. You need to get over yourself and Fred.
Fred would be an excellent cabinet member or Supreme Court justice, IMHO. But as president, I think we would be disappointed. He'd take the right positions, but get rolled every time.
The idea of a candidate “selling” himself” illustrates everything that is rotten in politics. All the current candidates reek of it. Thompson was the only genuine candidate—he was never tainted by the filth and the garbage.
It’s your right to love the stench of corruption, and to ignore anything truly good. But I still say it’s retarded.
thrilled? Ok, not thrilled since Bush.
But I really like Romney as someone rational, conservative and able to get some things done while articulating the conservative agenda and handling fools like pelosi etc.
a very articulate summary and insightful analysis !
I agree...Bush had the guts to stand his ground. And silly as it is, the primaries are a testing ground.
I think romney can handle the presidency..with Mccain...i think he is way too unstable.
“I spoke with hundreds of SC voters who really liked Thompson, in fact they liked his politics better than any other candidate’s, but voted for Huckabee or McCain. They thought Thompson couldn’t win.”
Wow. This makes me amd and sad at the same time. Didn;t the SC voters realize THIS IS WHAT A PRIMARY IS FOR???!!!
I’ve watched your posts. Fred Thompson was the best shot this country has had placed before it in decades.
Pearls before swine, as they say, and you know who I am talking about.
Yup.. right before he joined the Kennedy wing by endorsing the Huckster. Oh, wait.. that was Hunter.
JimRob made the same choice. If you honestly felt that, you’d stop posting on FR. But you don’t, you’re just a partisan trying to make a point. Try to remember that Free Republic is not a GOP website, it is a conservative website.
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Time for the FALCONservatives to assert themselves.
Death of the GOP and the Birth of a New Political Party
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961828/posts
The time may soon come where many of us say, like Ronald Reagan’s famous quote regarding the Democrat party, “I didn’t leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me.”
This is the very essence of the adolescent, almost pre-pubescent mindset of the current pre-adult United States electorate.
Talk about childish or immature! What was it that the pot called the kettle?
It is up to the VOTERS to educate themselves about the candidates, their positions and their plans. It is NOT the politicians' job to go around hand-feeding dullards, sluggards, and other victims of arrested development still waiting for Mommy to make things right.
I agree with you and have been amazed at the number of so-called conservatives who think candidates must kiss their rear ends to earn a vote.
They sound like Liberals to me.
Personal responsibility is a core belief in conservatism. If people cannot be responsible for their own votes, they don’t aren’t conservatives.
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