Nope, I don’t think so. Thompson was a real conservative, and Huck’s supporters are only partial conservatives. They would not have gone for Huckabee. The reject his illegal amnesty record....and McCains. They reject the abortion and gun-control records of Romney and Rudy.
Where will we go if Thompson folds?
I think there is no place to go. It’ll be the Dole election all over again. Why get excited about some old fart Rino.
No reason to get excited over any of the others but Fred.
The party thinks they can just scream “Hillary Clinton!” and we’ll just go vote and donate happily no matter who it is.
No thanks! I’d rather take a short term loss for a long term conservative goal. Maybe that’ll show the 2012 candidates what a real conservative should be like.
That was really well said. I agree with you completely.
I am not giving up on Thompson.
yes mccain would be the new Dole. why I think kemp even supports mccain
We? As in “True Supporters of Our Troops?” We’ll go the same place Fred Thompson goes, I expect. McCain.
Coming back to this board after a long time away, I see many who look on a term of Hillary Clinton as a better lesson for the nation than four or eight years of John McCain. Irrelevant. The mood of the country is still tilted left, so the Democratic superdelegates will probably get their female one-termer. However, we need a moderate like Senator McCain to keep it close so she doesn’t have big congressional coattails. And we need a McCain to be constantly pressuring her to be less of a defeatist. It will be a close run thing (reference, anyone?), but with enough pressure she may just decline to lose a war on her watch.
When at war, winning the war comes first. McCain knows that. So does Fred Thompson, who I greatly respect. And at a proper point, Thompson will plainly face the situation we find ourselves in, and act as a patriot.