Sanjaya
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
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.
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!!!!
| Member Opinion | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fred Thompson | 50.0% |  |
1,380 |
| Duncan Hunter | 21.3% | |
588 |
| Other/undecided | 6.1% | |
168 |
| Mitt Romney | 6.0% | |
165 |
| Ron Paul | 5.3% | |
146 |
| Rudy Giuliani | 4.9% | |
135 |
| Tom Tancredo | 3.0% | |
83 |
| Mike Huckabee | 2.5% | |
69 |
| John McCain | 0.5% | |
15 |
| Sam Brownback | 0.3% | 9 | |
| 99.9% | 2,758 | ||
I know better than to fall in love with a Politician. They all suck on some level and will disappoint you if you think they are going to act the way you want them to in every situation.
But I will say this for Tommy Gun. I feel WAAAAY better about his Conservative credentials than I EVER DID about Baby Bush, who I know was a New World Order moderate.
The only thing Baby Bush surprised me with that was more conservative than expected was when Ashcroft wrote a letter stating that gun ownership was an individual right.
Other than that, he has been a New World Order moderate right down the line, being a bit right of center here and a bit left of center there.
He only seems conservative compared iwth the Dems and the MSM.
wonderin what affiliation you have with SmallGovTimes...since most of your posts are referenced from there. would answer alot.
Wrong headline, should read BS attack on Fred and supporters.
IBTZ
Either you understand it, or you don’t. If you don’t, you are likely too damned stupid, or liberal, likely both, for me to waste my precious time on your education. Blame your momma, she is the one that sent you off to school dressed funny! Blame your daddy, too, he let her do it!
None of my kids, or grandkids, are dysfunctional, they all recieved regular tuneups, and maintainence, from the gitgo!
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.
So is this guy for or agin’?
It’s not luck if you can do it.
Thompson hit piece agendas...........
I don’t understand why folks like him, I’m shocked at the freeper support for him honestly, he is not a good choice.
When I read this, my first thought was, this sounds like it was written by a Ron Paul groupie.
Sure enough, when I went to the website, I found that the article written just previous to this one argues that Ron Paul is the only candidate who can be trusted to secure our borders:
http://www.smallgovtimes.com/story/07sep10.paul.immigration/index.html