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Thompson Still Waiting For Right Moment to Announce (Might Wait Until September)
Washington Post ^ | July 12, 2007 | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 07/12/2007 8:08:26 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

Fred D. Thompson has decided not to formally announce his presidential campaign this month and may wait until September to end the suspense for Republicans, according to several sources in his campaign.

When the former senator from Tennessee first acknowledged his interest in the White House in early June, campaign advisers indicated he was likely to wait until early July to announce, after spending a month raising money and putting together an organization.

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To: PJ-Comix

They used to say the real date would be July 4th and his supporters were all excited. He is mean to his supporters by doing this, bobbing them up and down on a string.


41 posted on 07/12/2007 9:25:36 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Romney Rocks!)
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To: ejonesie22

suing should be using. Though accurate perhaps, given he’s a lawyer...


42 posted on 07/12/2007 9:26:06 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Don't worry hippie, we'll defend you too. Now fetch my Cafe Mocha will you....)
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To: Saundra Duffy
If by “they” you mean Fred’s team, “they” said no such thing. “They” just rented a building.

As for this being irritating, for your team I am sure it is...

43 posted on 07/12/2007 9:27:52 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Don't worry hippie, we'll defend you too. Now fetch my Cafe Mocha will you....)
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To: PJ-Comix
"This is becoming almost comical."

Actually, this could turn out to be a stroke of genius. Make the announcement on the Labor Day Weekend, and release a statement to the effect that political campaigns had been starting earlier and earlier, and that he chose not to do so to try to restore some sanity to the election process. This gives him the "high ground" and makes his opponents look like over-eager amateurs.

44 posted on 07/12/2007 9:32:35 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Not a bad theory, in fact capital thinking there...

At the rate things have been going, I was concerned I would be getting my 2016 election bumper stickers in February...

45 posted on 07/12/2007 9:35:40 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Don't worry hippie, we'll defend you too. Now fetch my Cafe Mocha will you....)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’ve been predicting that he could and probably would wait until Sept-Oct before subjecting himself to the stupid games and tricks that the other candidates are performing, and I think it was March that I spoke to people here about that.

It’s getting to look more and more likely that will be true.


46 posted on 07/12/2007 9:37:29 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: ClarenceThomasfan
Give me a break. All of the other candidates totally jumped the gun, some even declaring their candidacy or making their intentions known during the 2006 mid-terms. It's completely ridiculous. People are sick and tired of politics as it is. You might as well just have a continuous political cycle.

Fred is already in the race, he's playing by his own rules and not those by the establishment. If he wasn't running, he wouldn't be writing his articles and attending GOP/conservative functions. Look, it's summer. Fred is subconsciously telling folks to have a good time and take their minds off of politics.

47 posted on 07/12/2007 9:38:31 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Saundra Duffy
They used to say the real date would be July 4th

Who is "they"? Sources close to Thompson adamantly denied that date, which was just a media guess. Like all of the other "dates" being thrown out there.

48 posted on 07/12/2007 9:41:17 AM PDT by kevkrom (The religion of global warming: "There is no goddess but Gaia and Al Gore is her profit.")
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To: Saundra Duffy
He is mean to his supporters by doing this, bobbing them up and down on a string.

How so? It was the Fredheads who brought up rumors of the July 4th announcement, not Thompson.

You're not going to support him anyway, so why do you care?

49 posted on 07/12/2007 9:42:14 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Weeedley

See post #46...


50 posted on 07/12/2007 9:42:42 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: ClarenceThomasfan

See post#46 ...


51 posted on 07/12/2007 9:43:21 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: Weeedley

Oops: that last ping to you was for someone else.

I want to say, to you, that your definition of “Leader” and what an “American Leader” should be doing right now is perfectly, dead-on accurate:

“The people want a fence and locked down border; free speech in campaigns as in the 1st Amend; spending under control, the IRS abolished, and the enemy wiped out.”


52 posted on 07/12/2007 9:45:51 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: kevkrom

She knows that.


53 posted on 07/12/2007 9:47:09 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD --- VOTE FOR FRED!!.)
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To: Saundra Duffy
You know, I LIKE Romney, but I can’t understand why committed supporters of other candidates are so concerned about when or whether Thompson or any other candidate will “announce”.

Presumably, it is “better” for their own candidates aspirations and fund-raising, etc... Why all the angst and anxiety about Thompson’s behavior here?

54 posted on 07/12/2007 9:49:48 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: PJ-Comix

Wow, the Washington ComPost says September. (unconfirmed)

Wow, CNN says August. (unconfirmed)

Wow, the LA Times says Fred or his firm was maybe hired 16 years ago by a pro-choice group. (unconfirmed)

I’m thinking we’d better check with Huffington Post to get the real poop.


55 posted on 07/12/2007 9:50:21 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD --- VOTE FOR FRED!!.)
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To: Weeedley
free speech in campaigns as in the 1st Amend

I'm with you, but I'm not sure Fred is with us on this one.

56 posted on 07/12/2007 10:17:30 AM PDT by badbass
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To: Weeedley

Then why does everyone get so upset when someone politicises an issue, or is accused of playing politics?


57 posted on 07/12/2007 10:21:35 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: PJ-Comix

58 posted on 07/12/2007 10:25:16 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: ilgipper

Good points, also he is probably waiting for an opening between terror attacks and the press hissy fits over various issues. Not to mention the hot story of the day (Benoit or missing girls). Its a lot like the stock market...what is a good entry point.


59 posted on 07/12/2007 10:26:50 AM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: rhombus

As Wilma would say.....Freddddddddddddddddd get with it...


60 posted on 07/12/2007 10:37:59 AM PDT by angelcindy (Where's the Fence?????)
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