Posted on 05/05/2007 6:55:48 PM PDT by jdm
No candidate is going to be 100% perfect AND electable. At least Fred appears to be a conservative....I have no idea what McCain is other than a backstabber.
I don’t know
Fred Thompson is sane.
Thanks
Just thinking is all
My language was tad too strong for the moderator and I do apologize to all. I should have thought before I posted
To Moderator: My bad
I think he is very smart to distance himself from the pack of candidates. he seems to be the only one who has learned the lesson of Howard Dean's campaign (power of the internet). I want him to run...I already have a yard sign, "fred head" lapel buttons, and bumper stickers. But i just don't think there are enough who share his vision and have the determination to see it through.
EXACTLY
Correct
They attacked Reagan. They’ll attack Thompson. He is a plain talker, principle driven, guy that the common person will relate to, unlike Newt. I like Newt a lot, but he carries baggage and an academic superiority that doesn’t bode well with the masses. Newt & Thompson don’t let Dems frame the field of debate, choose the rhetoric, spin, and flip-flop. With Giuliani & McCain heading right for the primaries, they are a bit hard to distinguish from the flip-flopping of Dems. That leaves the man who is in 3rd place without having announced he was running.
IMHO, the LSM has been very busy behind the scenes digging for every little piece of dirt they can find on Fred. By now I suspect they've got quite a pile of stories ready to go.
When Fred finally does announce, the LSM will let him have it, both barrels, full choke.
But, IMHO, Fred will weather the storm. Americans are gonna like his style.
Above all else we must come together behind someone, even if they have major flaws, because we and our causes cannot survive defeat. This group of Democrats, if empowered, will change the rules and the judges such that our views will not be allowed the light of day for a generation. They are already working harder on criminalizing our speech as 'hate crimes' than they are on the mechanics of normal government. None of the current GOP wannabes, even at their Rhinoest would act to make a subsequent victory by a better conservative impossible, although I sadly must admit some could make such harder. If this Left wins the only ways our ideals of Life, Limited Government, Gun rights, Family values, etc. will be heard again would be after a disastrous meltdown by the left or by exercising the full original intent of the Second Impediment. The Jihadists might win before we could recover either way so we cannot afford failure. At worst we must at least maintain the current, far from perfect, status quo.
Although we stand within a knife's edge of failure we must also remember we are also close to major victories. Judge Stevens can't hold on forever, nor, probably, can Judge Ginsberg. Even if the left filibusters all replacements we'd probably win the court via simple attrition. Gore's temper tantrum and Bush's suicidal "New Tone" kept him from purging the left's leftovers. All our candidates see the consequences of that and none will repeat that mistake. We might have trouble getting some folks confirmed, but we won't have problems firing people. At worst we might have to make do with a smaller government. I can live with that. And if our eventual candidate turns out to be not just "good enough" but actually "good" he just might lead us to a workable majority in both houses of Congress and enough of a mandate to significantly advance our causes. We aren't the only ones within a knife's edge of failure. Within their warped world view, the left was correct to call some of our candidates in Thursday's debate "scary."
“Impediment” = Amendment
Just watched Bernard Goldberg on C-Span observe that he had listened to a speech by Thompson and disagreed with a lot of what he said, but felt that at least Thompson believed in what he was saying and that this is what many are looking for in a candidate this time around - “I didn’t go along with some of what he said but I came away liking him as a person” - not bad.......
And also in the news, “The Washington Post is synonomous with the New York Times”.
“But, IMHO, Fred will weather the storm. Americans are gonna like his style”
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I’ve been playing mind games with myself as to how the LSM will go about informing us of Fred’s “sins.” Will they do it all at once, hoping to take him down quickly or will they try and make him die from a thousand paper cuts. My thinking, at least for now, is that the LSM will take the paper cuts road.
But what ever games the LSM plays, I really do believe Fred will come shining through. His no BS attitude is going to win him lots of votes.
” Will they do it all at once, hoping to take him down quickly or will they try and make him die from a thousand paper cuts.”
Just from my own cursory analysis, Fred hasn’t got much baggage. I wish the MSM cretins luck.........they will need it : )
—This writer is attempting to paint Thompson as a moderate to liberal Republican (versus a Conservative) which is just so way off and wrong it’s deplorable.—
Par for the course for the ComPost. The drive-by media are starting to soil their shorts.
“MSM doing Thompson a favor” ping.
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