Posted on 08/03/2007 7:40:07 PM PDT by Josh Painter
“The major flaw in the is statement is Fred is not a candidate!”
We got you the 286 times you already said this, but keep on reminding us. By the way, how’s Congressman Hunter’s poll numbers these days? Has he broken through to 2% yet?
Do you think Fred is the best choice, or do you think that "he is he the best choice we have that you think can win?"
Indeed it is sad...
For the others...
You so sirry...
You still make me raff...
(yawn)
The Ballad of Willard Romney
1 Born in a hospital in Michigan
he wants you to believe that he’s for guns
he was for the Brady Bill in ‘94
now it’s the NRA that he says he for
Willard, Willard Romney, king of the flip floppers!
2 Willard hired Jay Garrity, who liked to play cop
but that turned out to be a terrible flop
had a badge and a car with cop radios
but he had to resign, so off he goes
Willard, Willard Romney, king of the panderers!
3 He’s writin’ checks to his own campaign
the only way he can stay ahead of McCain
he said he was pro-choice in 2002
but now that foot wears a different shoe
Willard, Willard Romney, opportunist extraodinaire!
4 Mitt said only English should be spoken here
but five days later he turned to the rear
when he ran him an ad in Espanol
looks like he dug himself another hole
Willard, Willard Romney, king of the hypocrites!
5 He gave Massachusetts Romney Care
a whole new bureaucracy for the folks up there
smaller government just ain’t Mitt’s way
yet he said he was a Federalist the other day
Willard, Willard Romney, you can’t trust a thing he says!
Oh, just stop, it’s like screaming at the wind.
It will be soon enough, as soon as L&O is done with EOS reruns.
Then you can go neener neener neener with me...
Just go with the idea we are “stoopid” and be done with it, you’ll rest better...
The only accomplishment the Tennessee Dud has to his name is McCain-Feingold. That means he is one of only two candidates running for for president from either party who has successfully led an attack on our Constitutional freedoms.
The other candidate is his hero and mentor, John McCain.
Is that why Fred appeals to you?
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It is equally sad to see folks like yourself badmouthing conservatives on a conservative website.<<<
People do it to Romney all of the time—you being a case in point, if I’m not mistaken. Tancredo gets attacked pretty regularly (the one trick pony line), though I dare you to find something he’s supported that isn’t conservative.
But I think he makes a good point concerning Thompson. Why is there so much hype around a man who has openly said that he “has never had a desire to be President?” I hear the line that this is exactly what we should want, but I call total bullcrap to that notion. I want someone who go to the mat for a cause. I’ve seen nothing of that sort from Thompson—not when he was representing me as a Senator in Tennesee, either.
I like Fred Thompson in many ways. I see him as the second most viable candidate should he enter this race. But right now, he isn’t a viable candidate because he hasn’t entered the race. And I consider it more than a bit shady that a man is running a stealth campaign and hiding from the campaign finance laws he helped run through the Senate a few short years ago. Nearly 25% of his campaign funds raised in June came from one dinner in Nashville a few weeks ago—and not a single one of those donors was hampered by McCain-Feingold.
I also don’t get the hype behind a DC lobbyist, a trial lawyer, a Hollywood insider, and a US Senator. But all of that said and done, I could like Thompson. Maybe. If he’d ever come out and say where he even stands on the issues.
He is the non candidate either leading on just behind in the major polls...
That's gotta suck for the "Candidates"...
Maybe since they have Fred in them maybe they are "non-polls"
That will maker it easier for them...
It’s not like he is polling up there near or at the top or anything, I mean how can he, he’s not running, and obviously too lazy to do so.
Man, you got him pegged.
Your statement about settling for less is valid, but I also believe that conservatives can respectfully disagree on which (conservative) candidate is the 'best' conservative.
No, I don't believe at this point that FDT is the best choice, and it is highly unlikely that I would support someone simply because I thought 'they could win'.
JCEccles wrote: “The only accomplishment the Tennessee Dud has to his name is McCain-Feingold.”
You obviously don’t think that saving the taxpayers billions of dollars is an “accomplishment.”
Fred stopped S507 almost single-handedly. I’m sure that doesn’t quality as an “accomplishment” for you, either.
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/23891.html
Being the lowest spender of the GOP field also must not be an “accomplishment.”
http://race42008.com/2007/03/24/fiscally-fisking-the-2008-contenders
And reducing the federal bureaucracy must not be in your definition of “accomplishment” either.
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_26583.asp
How is it that Fred Thompson represented you as a Senator and you don't know where he stands on the issues? You didn't vote for him or pay attention to his record in the senate?
John Kennedy didn’t ‘announce’ until Jan of the elections year.
the pacts on both sides have been running forever - tripping over themselves and everyone else. by the time of the election, people will have grown sick of them - well, many have been from the beginning, but you know what I mean -
Fred has been smart not to hurl himself into the kindergarten “debates” and scurrying around with the rest who act like a bunch of snot nosed kids jockeying for the camera.
the campaigning starts months too early - and for office holding candidates, they aren’t doing the job they are be paid to do. I would think that a year would be time enough for a candidate to get their points across -
Sorry Fred is likely to spell trouble for your candidate, but give it a break a’ready
If the guy has a re-lapse next year after the stress of the primary season, we’re screwed.
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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