Posted on 11/19/2007 9:19:11 AM PST by Fred
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I would love to see a Thompson/Hunter ticket.
My primary vote will be going to Duncan Hunter, but I will support WHOMEVER is the party’s nominee in November. I would love to send a message by voting for a third-party candidate, or staying home, but I’m not sure my personal constitution could make it through another lesson like the one we learned in 2006!
No prob-lee-mo!
But I saw this interview; Fred did look better than usual.
I’ve always thought he had “fire in the belly” although I don’t like that expression. He has a better reason for running than anyone else. It is nice to see someone else say it though. Encouragement is always helpful.
Thanks for posting this.
Bump
GO FRED GO!!! For the sake of our country, GO FRED GO!!
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You’re reflecting our culture of instant gratification and entertainment politics. God forbid, we should have maturity and statesmanship and focus among the candidates for President. That’s exactly what Fred brings that the rest do not. The self-control and character he is showing will carry him along very well in his plan (which of course, he has) to lead him to victory next fall. He will be the one to go up against Hillary, and the contrast, even for Direhard Dems, will be startling. That’s my prediction.
It’s leadership we need — at every area of the POTUS — and it’s true leadership that we will get from Fred for the long haul (not Guliani, who writes a BOOK about “Leadership”).
I like Duncan a lot also — and i hope Fred chooses him as his running mate. He could redefine the whole office of VP by putting someone of substance and competence in there.
Actually the word goes back at least 500 years before the Romans destroyed the Temple...Herodotus refers to Palestinians and Syria Palaestina when describing the Persian Empire. I don’t know if the term was ever in official use before Vespasian, but it derives from the name of the Philistines so must have been coined before they were utterly forgotten. It’s not clear how large an area Herodotus means by the term, perhaps just the area the Philistines had inhabited.
You win a CEE-GARRR! I do not see any reason a VP has to be a wallflower. We are paying his salary, let's put him to work!
Dick Cheney does not sit around autographing flags, why would Duncan?
This is a huge deal for me. Big bump for Thompson.
You’re right about Cheney — HOWEVER,the media still will NOT give him the respect he has deserved from Day One. If there was a Dem VP worthy of the same level of respect, it would be different. Maybe I’m dreaming to think the press will ever change idealogically....but a girl can dream, yes?
I sent more money today...I will give the entire amount...unfortunately in increments.
Happy to hear about the ‘fire in the belly.’
Now perhaps he would be kind enough to set fire to the NeoConNaysayers over at NRO who (with one exception I know of) are writing him off for dead.
Oh, sure, there are earlier references, but the Phillistines were sea-farers and coast-dwellers (and have no relation to the arabs who call themselves Palestinians, but that is another issue entirely).
Long story short, though, using the name for the entire territory came about because the Romans, in order to basically put us Jews in our place, used the name of our old enemy as the name of the land.
And, since the Romans made the maps, the name has stuck.
Great interview! I’m gonna bookmark the site to return often.
Perhaps but will the voters respond in just 45 days and on Feb. 5??? That is the real question.
This is FRed. :)
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