Posted on 09/16/2007 4:21:07 PM PDT by sdnet
Fred Thompson must be the luckiest guy in American politics – he doesn't yet have a platform available on his web site, skips debates, waits for months before announcing under the assumed role of “testing the waters”, records videos on his web site and somehow manages to bring in impressive support from the American people.
(Excerpt) Read more at smallgovtimes.com ...
Sanjaya
Lucky him.
Wesley Clark was very popular as well when he first announced, until people found out he had a big bag of nothing.
LOL!! Thompson “skips debates”! There hasn’t been a debate since he declared his candidacy.
Woo hoo!! Run, FRed, Run!!
Is it too soon to say FR is Thompson/Hunter country?
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/poll?poll=191
Good idea, Mr. Robinson!
It’s ironic that you chose a vegetable for your username.
Those aren’t debates.
Those are media sound bite driven dog and pony shows.
They mean exactly zilch.
Values Voter debate. Plus the one he skipped by announcing right afterward on Leno.
The “See our bumper sticker here” link at the bottom of this page:
http://www.smallgovtimes.com/thenest/about/index.html
Goes to a Ron Paul bumper sticker on this page:
http://www.cafepress.com/cndotcom.62033056
> Fred Thompson must be the luckiest guy in American politics ...
Hardly.
Dark horses tend to poll well, particularly when people
are disenchanted with the front runners under the lights.
The positioning often changes dramatically when the
dark horse catches the pack.
> Wesley Clark was very popular as well when he
> first announced, until people found out he had
> a big bag of nothing.
Exactly.
> ... waits for months before announcing ...
JFK waited until January.
Getting in too soon is actually kind of stupid, unless
it’s purely to raise funding. You run out of things to
keep people interested.
FT’s fortunes now depend on what happens next, and
not how he got here.
Here is a well thought out intelligent response for you.
Blah, blah, blah.
This article is not as bad as many others, but the theme toward Fred “Tommy Gun” Thompson in the media has been either:
“What does an actor know about politics”, whereby they discount his entire 8 years in the Senate, or...
“Look at these liberal votes he cast as a Senator,” whereby they discount the 9 in 10 conservative votes he cast, discount his no-nonsense character, his ability to rise above mere political considerations, and his tendency to back his words with actions and remain true to his political convictions and not whore himself out to the prevailing whims or public opinion polls.
Thompson has more or less already me that he is either the best candidate in the Republican field or the lesser of evils in it. Either way, I have no choice but to vote for him in the primary.
I feel like I know what I am getting with Thompson, and I can see the lies and disinformation in trying to frame him as just an actor (like Arnold Schwarzenneger) or frame him as not being very conservative.
It won’t work with me, because I was a political junky during the time he served in the Senate and I very much like what I recall from his performance as a Senator.
What boggles my mind is how the good people of Tennessee could fill the same Senate seat one year with Al Gore and the very next with Fred Thompson.
Go Tommy Gun in 2008!!!!
Not at all.
Thompson is far more the player than Hunter, in my opinion.
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