Posted on 09/10/2007 5:58:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If you all remember I was willing to wait for a “October Surprise”!!!!!!........
Just after Labor Day is the traditional time to announce for the Presidency. Fred Thompson is right on time. A better question to ask would be why every other Republican candidate was buffaloed into declaring on Hillary!'s time-table.
There is plenty of time for Fred Thompson to kick butt between now and January.
Since when is announcing your candidacy more than a year before the election “too late”?
Frankly, the debates so far on both sides have been absolutely pointless, and hardly anyone has been paying attention to them.
People will be sick of Obama and Hillary after they have seen them on the covers of news magazines in the supermarket for nearly two years.
As I said last May, summer would have been the worst possible time to announce a candidacy, since everyone is off on vacation, in spirit if not in actuality. TV is into reruns, and it’s too hot to worry about politics. After Labor Day is the natural time for the announcement, and it’s exactly what I expected.
Thanks, finnman.
Fred Flintsone stops his car with his feet.
Fred Thompson works in a quary and has a boss named Mr. Slate who's always firing him.
I used to have a hard time keeping them straight too.
HAHAHAHAHA Yeah right! That’s why he’s racing up the polls, because he waited too long! LOL!
Firstly, pundits and reports don’t decide when it’s too late for a candidate to enter a race. That’s for the voters to decide.
Secondly, repeating a lie doesn’t make it true.
Thirdly, the premise of the article is false, as is evidence by the recent poll results.
Pssst. Take a peek at the calendar. It's STILL summer!
Actually, it was empty-suit Obama who announced first. Hillary wasn't going to announce as early as she did - he just jumped the gun and pretty much forced her into announcing before he sewed up the money and the support - the "rock star" (I hate that term) treatment that he was getting threw her into a panic.
If I were Obama, I wouldn't be going for any walks in Fort Marcy Park...
I don’t think he came in that far too late, although if he had waited much longer you could definitely make that case.
The point is, he’s in it. And he’s riding off a bounce right now with a slight lead in the polls. The next few weeks will be the key.
Hillary has been campaigning for president/dictator since 1992. I think she got in too early and it’s too late for her to do anything about it.
What a bunch of chicken littles.Maybe they dont know of rasmussen?
From the local weather morons to global warming prophets to hurricane gurus to political pundits to Psychic Friends Network types, I have yet to see anyone predict the future with any accuracy. The greater the agenda, the greater the “prediction”. Some make good educated guesses, some are just idiotic. Oh yeah, how many named storms were we supposed to get this year when they first “predicted”? 17. Then revised down and down again (8 so far). Second year in a row that none have hit the Gulf coast (yet at least this year). I’m sure they’re disappointed as is Smokin’ Al Gore along with all the FT doomsayers.
It’s interesting to note, the democrat candidate who went on to win that party’s nomination in 2004 declared his candidacy exactly four years ago ... last Sunday.
Clemson political scientist Doug Woodard
political scientist Robert Botsch
Emory University analyst Merle Black
No, quite the opposite, the others are all nauseatingly old news now! What they don’t realize is the American people are tired of this already! GO FRED!
It appears that Thompson is lead Rudy on Rasmussen’s 3 day rolling average. It didn’t look to me like he was also leading the Gallup.
Fred Thompson is making his own rules. He want to be the outsider. In doing so he is getting free publicity and doesn't need to raise as much money and spend it on a prolonged primary season.
If he runs the country like his campaign, spending may well be under control much more quickly amd decisions will be made strategically rather than reflexively.
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