Posted on 12/21/2007 4:29:43 PM PST by Free Vulcan
About the nicest adjective some analysts have applied to Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is he’s laid back.
More often, they're apt to call his campaign 'lethargic, dull, lazy, sleepy-eyed' or in the words of a conservative columnist, ';fizzy as day-old cherry Coke.';
Thompson, if he cares, doesn't show it.
In fact, he seems to wear his demeanor - and his campaign's pace - quite proudly.
Take when he walked into the Thunder Bay Grille restaurant in Davenport this month.
Barely had he begun speaking when he acknowledged the criticism. He said it reminds him of his first run for the Senate in Tennessee in 1994.
'It's kind of funny because the same things I hear about myself today, I heard about then,' he told a room of more than 150 people. 'Does he want it bad enough? Is he ambitious enough? Did he get in soon enough? All those things that didn't, to me, have anything to do with the future of our country seemed to consume the attention of the chattering classes a whole lot.'
In the end, he told the crowd, his campaign went from 20 points down to a 20-point win. And it happened in a state that Democrat Bill Clinton carried.
I think I know a little something about winning elections, Thompson said.
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Fred’s support is gaining daily! My guess is by next Friday Fred will be much higher in the polls. Romney and Huckabee are on their way down. GO FRED!
And that Fred's way smarter than me.
Just Fred being Fred!
Hit the deck strollin’!
Ole “Tortoise and the Hare” thing.
“Romney and Huckabee are on their way down. “
Judy is showing signs of being the Titanic.
What’s Mitt gonna do? Spend twice as muc and twice as hard, after he’s been in Iowa forever? Huckabee has NO foreign policy that’s cogent. And I don’t see McCain exactly becoming the ‘hot new thing’.
Spend twice as much and fight twice as hard
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