“I think their vote of McCain & Huckabee today clearly disspelled that honor (most conservative state in the union).”
I got out there and voted for Fred. Sadly, it looks like not enough other folk did the same.
Fred’s organization was lacking here. I saw FAR fewer Fred Thompson signs than those for McCain, Romney, Huckabee and Paul. I’d say I saw more Ron Paul signs than any other.
Fred did do a good job with last minute radio and TV ads, but they were too little too late I think.
“I’m seriously down...how are we going to stop McCain from rolling now? The votes of the american people have disappointed me.”
I think we need to be patient, and Republicans need to start voting on principle rather than voting based on “who we think can win”. That’s the only way we’ll end up with a conservative candidate.
I’ve got to agree that Fred didn’t do as good a job as he should have in getting in early and vigorously, and in setting up a good organization nationwide. With the media—including Fox!—so against him, that apparently has been too much to recover from.
What a shame, because I believe he’s by far the best candidate we’ve had and the most likely to have been able to defeat the Dems. He may have done us a favor in turning back Huckabee (though Huckabee only surged due to Fred’s giving him an opening earlier), but he did SC a disservice by not exposing McCain’s hypocrisy (e.g., on immigration) more forcefully.
I’d like to see him hang in and come out tougher, but I am discouraged.
Thompson did make a stong surge in the two weeks leading up to the election. I agree too little, too late. McCain
has been campaiging in SC since 2000. Even when he disappeared from the polital map last summer and fall, he was still making regular appearences through out the state.
Winning elections is about organization, boots on the ground, and name recognition. I thinks the powers that drafted Thompson felt he could charge in like the cavalry
and save the day at the last minute. That only works in
the movies.