Posted on 08/23/2007 12:56:47 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All this garbage is so hilarious. Just because Fred didn’t join the other candidates in announcing obscenely early (in order to maximize their $$$-raising potential), he is castigated as a “hold-out.”
The MSM is just ticked off because people are already tired of the obscenely-early-announcing candidates — as most of us here knew they would be.
Run, FRed, Run!!
Brit Hume
Fred Flubs Lines At VFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8i_8XKSFA
I prefer more decisive candidates. This “will he or won’t he” thing is too show business for me.
Fox News is backing Rudy Giuliani, so remember that from now on when you watch them.
Obscenely early?
Fred Thompson missed the Ames Straw Poll, which has long served as a major test towards winning the Republican nomination.
There’s early. And then there’s late.
Fred is late. Whether that hurts him has yet to be deterimined.
Fred will jump in when he is ready. In the meantime, there is one every bit as conservative as Thompson and receiving little or no recognition. Duncan Hunter deserves the support and backing of true conservatives.
He needs to be elevated in the rankings so we can get both of these fine gentlemen on the same ticket next year.
Liberals have hijacked our election process. To the point where they can thrust maniacs like McCain and RINOs like Guiliani upon us as if they were viable conservative candidates.
Perhaps Duncan Hunter will be able to get his name out there, but for now he appears to be shut out. The liberal media isn't going to help him any.
As far as Fred Thompson, we'll see what comes about when he announces. Maybe he is or he isn't "all that", but I'm confident if he "comes close", the conservative storm will be impressive.
Doesn’t change the fact that Thompson fumbled. It’s surprising.
I am stongly in Fred’s camp and prepared to cast my vote in 2009 when he can make up his mind like the girl he is.
The guy may have some good ideas. He may even have the stuff to be a good President. But this coyness isn’t helping him any. In my book, if you want the job, then get in there and fight for it.
In the mean time, he is doing well in the polls while other candidates are spending their donor's money as fast as they can get it and still can't get traction.
Personally, I like the idea that he isn't caving in to media pressure to do what they want him to do when they think he should. I don't know who I'd vote for, but he's on my short list. If he gets in, great! If not, there are several good candidates to choose from.
He either wants the job or he doesn’t want the job. If he needs more time to decide if he really wants the job, then maybe he should take it, but he’s losing credibility with me.
It is going to be difficult for Fred to live up to all this hype.
People have been viewing him as a tabula rasa, projecting all their hopes and dreams.
No one can live up to those kind of unrealistic, inflated expectations.
“Are People Losing Patience With [Fred]Thompson?”
Nope!!
Did you like Ronald Reagan? He didn’t announced his candidacy for President until November 13, 1979.
The MSM wishes we could bypass all this election messiness and just go directly to the coronation.
I believe he announced around the same time as the other candidates, didn’t he?
No sarcasm intended: I’d be really interested to know.
Also, this whole election cycle is a bit screwy this time around.
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