Posted on 09/08/2007 2:51:30 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
NR has been very anti-Fred for some reason. The man declared two days ago and he gets berated for not having a ‘ground game’ yet.
“We’re going back to the tick-tock to get the boo-boo!”
Fred Thompson
“Baby’s Day Out”
Fred ping!
I think Fred is in excellent shape now that Rudy has basically come out in favor of open borders to absorb many of those who will jump that sinking ship.
More people watch Leno than live in New Hampshire. Fred chose where he wanted to go. I respect that.
Maybe they know something the rest of us don't...yet.
NO.... New Hamshire is merely a Dog and Pony Show..
Seems like he is running a right of center General Election campaign and NOT a Republican Primary. Has he ever ran in a Primary before ?? Maybe that’s his problem.
I think they are just being biased in favor of thier candidate
THE answer to THE question is: why does anyone even give a shiite.
It really tweaks some people’s sensitivities when you don’t buy into their game plan. I don’t have anything against the fine people of New Hampshire, but we are talking about a very small state’s primary as if it really meant anything at all. It really doesn’t.
We live in a new age. Everyone realizes this, but if a candidate tries to maximize his impact based on that fact, he is taken to task for it.
If Fred wasn’t forward leaning, he’d be trashed for it. And if he is and wants to shake things up a little, he’s trashed for it.
On Leno the other night he had a great comment along these lines. It went something like this. “You know, that Fred Thompson is exactly what this nation needs right now. It sure is too bad he didn’t start his campaign earlier.”
When it gets down to it, I don’t think too many people are going to cast their vote for someone else, just because Fred didn’t opt to play pick up sticks in New Hampshire.
I’m not from NH...but how many people would vote for Rudy vs Fred based on Rudy spending more time in NH? If so, they are stupid enough to deserve anything they get.
I find the fact that Romney spends so much time & $$ in two small states trying to get name recognition a sign of weakness. This isn’t 1960. You don’t have the option of doing well in NH and building up momentum. The front loaded primaries we have now mean you need name recognition and strength across the board right away. You can’t build it month by month.
NH helps knock out the bottom tier. Beyond that, I doubt it means squat.
And that matters because....
Good grief, the man is going to be in NH this weekend, and folks will get to see him in person in several different places. Sounds like he’s gonna connect with voters, to me. Maybe the PUNDITS are getting their knickers in a twist, but I doubt if regular voters will.
The only way he didn’t have boots on the ground is that he really hadn’t made up his mind until a few days before Leno... and that just doesn’t pass the laff test.
Hillary set the bar with her “Listening Tour".She'd go to an area where she already had advance scouts on the ground, then she'd leave people behind to work the area as she moved on to the next place the state.
It was absolutley brilliant.
> When Fred Thompson opted to announce his presidential
> candidacy from the comfort of Jay Leno’s arm chair
> Wednesday night — instead of participating in the
> Republican debate in New Hampshire that same evening ...
FT would have had to effectively announce before the
debate in order to be in the debate.
The rest of the article complains that FT didn’t give
the DNC any ammo to use against him in their bogus FEC
complaints of BCFR violations.
JFK didn’t even announce until Jan 1960 for the 1960 election.
Agenda-based “reporting” and “analysis” is not the
exclusive province of the left.
It’s about money. It is always about money. The delay in announcement was about delaying financial disclosures of the “campaign”, but there is no more avoiding that.
As for not competing in states, the nomination is not won by popular vote. It is won by securing delegates. If you do not compete, you do not win delegates.
*YAWN*
Exactly!
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