Posted on 09/05/2007 7:56:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After spending months testing the waters for a presidential run, Sen. Fred Thompson has made his candidacy official.
"I am running for president of the United States," he said during a taping of NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," drawing applause and cheers from the audience.
Thompson will also talk about his decision to join the race for the Republican presidential nomination in a webcast scheduled to go online early Thursday.
A five-day campaign tour will follow Thompson's announcement, sources said last week.
Thompson will stump in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida. Then it's on to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee -- his hometown -- for a "homecoming" on September 15, the sources said.
Political observers say Thompson may be late entering the race. The first voting is only four months away and the others have been in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and beyond for months.
"Expectations are sky high, which means he better perform flawlessly out of the box or a lot of people are going to start grumbling that he's not the great savior we thought he was," said Republican pollster Whit Ayres.
Thompson created a fundraising committee that allowed him to begin raising money for a possible presidential campaign on June 1. He's angling for a conservative base that hasn't coalesced around one candidate.
During his speeches this summer, he has promised his commitment to outlaw abortion is more than lip service.
"I don't think as the president you can do anything halfway," Thompson said in August.
On Iraq, he's in no rush to talk about bringing troops home. "Right now we need to make every effort to make sure that we don't get run out of there with our tails between our legs," Thompson said.
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Good luck Fred. At least you are trying.
I have been scanning YouTube for a clip of The Announcement. What I found was, EVERY Fred Thompson clip I saw on YouTube is getting spammed. The comments are mostly from Ron Paul supporters (so they state).
Renounce your membership in the Council On Foreign Relations and maybe I’ll consider you Fred...till then, nada.
All eyes will be on Jay Leno tonight.
You have no idea what the CFR is or isn't do you.
“Renounce your membership in the Council On Foreign Relations and maybe I’ll consider you Fred...till then, nada.”
Paranoia is a dangerous motivator when it comes to determining ones vote.
Didn’t Whit Ayres play Marlo’s daddy on “That Girl” ?
Another story,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5665.html
A key adviser said the two biggest issues motivating Thompson are “Islamic radicalism and the threat of terrorism reaching our shores,” and a sense that “politics has broken down in the domestic arena, too.”
Thompson plans to announce some politically dicey policies, including a plan to overhaul a system of entitlements — Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — that some experts argue is not financially sustainable.
Loser 9/10 issues. Sounds like the effect of throwing off his younger supporters for the old guard. If he mentions anything about “privatization” of social security he’s finished.
Too bad it ain’t Johnny Carson. :-(
The clip will be on http://www.Fred08.com as of midnight!
What a class act Johnny was—he was the best and there will never be anyone like him. I miss him.
Rue Paul showed his true colors tonight.
They run.
His short stature reflects the length of the bus his followers went to school on. Damned short.
-so who’s going to win the morning talk shows?
FRed got more airtime during the debate than half the candidates on stage got all night! They couldn’t stop talking about him...right out of the gate it was “Fred Thompson.....”
Did you forget a sarc tag? I ask in all seriousness.
yep, your right, i’m just a moonbat. Why don’t you enlighten me on just exactly what the CFR is and it’s plan for the betterment of the United States? I’m open-minded, give me an education on your understanding.
So is ignorance, my FRiend.
“Did you forget a sarc tag? I ask in all seriousness.”
Nope.
Did you forget what happened to Bush when he pressed privatization?
Maybe this is a good sign that it is today that he chose to announce.
Maybe he will be instrumental in saving a number of lives -- unborn babies that were so dear to Mother Teresa...
Yup, and ditto for Jack Paar, too. I miss Letterman’s NBC show, before he turned into left-wing Hillary-butt-kissing, Bush-bashing a$$hole on C-BS.
I don’t think President Bush explained it well enough. I know a lot of people that are concerned about this issue.
Every town has a few houses where the townsfolk in general think of the occupants as crazy people. Although I do not know who I will support I have noticed Ron Paul signs in a few of these yards. They are the only signs for a Presidential candidate in this town that have gone up this early. ‘Nuff said.
I don’t know if anyone noticed but Fred hasn’t looking very healthy lately. He looks like he’s lost weight and very pale.
Yeah, he was reelected, right?
Let’s see here, membership in the CFR has included Ronald Reagan, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney,and Newt Gingrich to name a few. Yep, Fred should NEVER associate with liberals like those. /s
I agree regarding Jack Parr but Letterman has never really stirred my interest. He is just tooo full of himself. Conan is another one that I thought might be good but he even fails. He is just too childish and silly.
“Punch the Hippies?” LOL!
Bush is a miserable, pathetic communicator. Fred is not.
He likes Fred from Law and Order.
Fred is the only guy (including Hillary) he would vote for.
And when I explained Fred's voting against the federal .08 DUI standard, he liked it. He remembers what the 10th Amendment means.
Yeah, that's one data point. But elections are won one voter at a time.
Bringing more attention to Fred doesn’t sound like a good plan to me. Maybe they just can’t help it. :p
“I don’t think President Bush explained it well enough.”
He doesn’t explain much well - that’s not just me, Romney’s said that too. Then he takes responsibility for Katrina, which wasn’t his fault.
“I know a lot of people that are concerned about this issue.”
It’s not an issue to win an election on. What people want to hear is “fighting corruption” “getting off oil/oil prices down” and firm comments and commitments on illegal immigration - though not browbeating on that issue. Again, that’s not me projecting my views. On Iraq people are troubled, they just want to win, or get it over with.
Are you a member of the CFR? Are you accredited somehow to be privy to all of their goings on? Are you a defender of the CFR?
I take it that we have come to the place that “conservative” does not include national sovereignty, national borders, or openness as to the global/international intents of our leaders. Too much is going on in secret involving globally powerful we did not elect to represent us, influencing people we did.
Only a handful of Mitt supporters who have been spewing it ad-nauseum for the last 3 weeks, it seems.
Why is the word “president” lower-case early in this brief article? Whatever happened to “grammar-checkers” before articles go before the general public? Both “grammar” and “facts” have been a problem for the mainstream media for several years now, and political correctness is to blame for the lack of both “grammar-checkers” and “fact-checkers” from within the mainstream media for several years now and counting.
Why do you guys run around posting this stuff verbatim?
Find an original phraseology and maybe you'd be mildly entertaining.
I normally don't disagree with you much. But I disagree here.
I think a lot of people realize that the current political situation is untenable. But no politician has the stones to basically go all in on these issues. Fred apparently is willing to make the ultimate bet. Time will tell if he has properly calculated the odds, but I think he realizes that the time is right for some political castor oil to be administered to the body politic.
Yawn..another Neo con.
“Yeah, he was reelected, right?”
Yes, but...
He pushed privatization after that reelection. Remember his “I’m going to use my political capital” speech? One of the odd ball things about that debate is there was no bill, yet he kept urging passage of it. The bill was a ghost. There were strange times he was blaming Democrats for not offering a bill in response to the ghost bill.
I think what might have happened is that when the dice were cast the brokerages backed out, realizing the additional scrutiny and regulation from the government would be when the government was turning over funds to them. Also there is a Hillary-Care-type dilemma which favored certain HMOs over others. The brokerage losers would create an ad campaign against the privileged winners, like happened with Hillary Care.
A funny chapter - Schwab vocally dropped its support for any such bill. Months later the Dems staged a protest at Schwab headquarters. They didn’t get the message.
Habemus Papam.
I agree on Iraq. I want to win, bigtime, and I think Fred is ready to take it to the terrorists. That (I hope) will be his main focus. Shutting down illegal immigration is a huge part of clamping down on the terrorist threat.
I just don’t agree that privatization of SS is going to be one of his huge “talking points”, but I do believe he is sincere about it and it is an important issue to younger voters.
So eh, it’s early and we’ll see how the strategy evolves. It’s going to be an interesting ride.
I enjoyed his gonzo show in the ‘80s, but he’s just a sorry spectacle today. He needs to hang it up.
LOL. Layoffs and red ink may be responsible.
Calling me ignorant in one breath and friend in the next. You are one piece of work.
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