Posted on 10/22/2007 9:59:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"Helped Themselves a Lot Tonight: Fred Thompson"
- National Review
"We had been waiting for any speech, any debate appearance, any event with Thompson to be a 'wow, that was fantastic.' Well, tonight was that moment we've been waiting for."
- National Review
"Fred Thompson delivers the first blow..."
- ABC News Political Radar
"Fred going on offense."
- Politico
"Thompson revved up."
- Time
"Kudos to Fred Thompson for coming out swinging tonight."
- Townhall
"He [Fred] ought to get serious points for guts."
- National Review
"'If a man can do all that and be lazy, I recommend it to everybody,' Thompson said to loud applause. Nice comeback."
- Politico
"That was a really, really strong response from Thompson" [Reference to final question]
- NBC
"Fred Thompson did quite well. Once again, he ended strong."
- Townhall
"Thompson's ability to slug it out with Giuliani, coupled with overall improvement in the quality of his answers, makes him one of tonight's winners."
- Powerline
"But if this debate is remembered at all, it will probably be because Fred Thompson, arguably a sleeping giant, seemed to wake up."
- Powerline
So Fred lost your support....ok....which one of the other candidates did he lose it to?
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/05/huckabee_some_c.html
The one who calls anti-amnesty proponents “racists?” No thanks!
IMHO Hunter could have done better at the debate last night. They asked him questions that he could have taken in a different direction, which could help him break out. He’s stuck in the grove on illegal immigration. I think it was Brit challenged him on that. Illegal immigration is an important issue, but there are also other issues that are just as important. He doesn’t have much that he wants to talk about. Immigration and China trade issues mostly. He isn’t dissapointing on what he does say, but there needs to be more.
Thompson is not interested in VP.
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LOL! Nobodies. :)
Great photo:
Rudy = again with the sh*t eating grin
Mitt = I am the phlegm phlagm man
Fred = I sure p3wned them tonight, yeehawwwww
McCain = please help me Dr. Kevorkian
OK, I thought perhaps he was visiting a studio that was doing one of those shows about dwarfs.
You know what I like about Ron Paul? He's the one guy running who would have the guts to tell us the truth about what's going on at Area 51!
All this obsession about who best projects energy, likability, and command of the issues is monumentally beside the point. The important lesson of the last two debates is that Thompson is the only serious guy in the race who is selling what Republican’s want to buy. He’s selling it quite well enough so it isn’t hard to predict that most of them will buy it when the time comes to make a real purchasing decision.
Romney is selling an ersatz knockoff of what Republicans want to buy. Unless he can learn to fake sincerity more convincingly he’s toast.
McCain, Giuliani, and Huckabee are selling something else entirely (statism in one of it’s infinite variations). No matter how quickly and smoothly these guys talk, there is no disguising the fact that they are saying the wrong things to win a Republican presidential nomination or to unify the GOP coalition for next fall. This gets clearer with each debate.
Given his place in the field, Thompson wins whenever he debates. Anyone who tells you different is spinning like the proverbial dervish.
But his wife doesn't!
LOL!
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In a manner of speaking, I guess he was. :)
That will make you look old...
But always with a smile...
“The name “Barney Fife” kept popping into my mind as I watched him last night...”
It was “Pee-Wee Herman”...
Before you blindly believe what another candidate says about a rival, or ignore Thompson’s response about tort reform, read the facts:
* Legal Reform: Supported legal reform measures with a significant interstate nexus.
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o Supported Product Liability Reform Measures.
o Voted For “Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act.”
o Voted For “Private Securities Litigation Reform Act” And Voted To Override President Clinton’s Veto.
o Supported “Y2K Readiness And Responsibility Act” Conference Report.
Supported Passage Of The Republican “Patients’ Bill Of Rights Plus Act” In 1999. The bill included legal protections for patients, as well as tax provisions to increase access to health insurance by reducing the cost of health care coverage.
* Believes Legal Reforms Without A Significant Interstate Nexus Are Best Left To The States. Including medical liability reform and volunteer liability protections.
My son refers to that “duh” look as “remedial”. I have that look from time to time (okay, a lot), and that’s what I hear, “Oh, Mom, you look so, so remedial.” (I was just thrilled that he’d mastered a word with more than one syllable.)
Someone needs to whisper “remedial” in John’s ear.
I agree that FDT did okay in the debate. A little shaky here and there, but overall credible.
How come though,that reviews from established media and blogs are suddenly in vogue? These are the same media whose reviews heretofore have been largely scathing. This as recently as Debate-eve at the FL GOP confab. When posted at FR these reviews have been universally dismissed by Fredheads as biased, incorrect, or selective.
So now we are admitting the good reviews, are the previous scathing reviews admissable as well? Or does the Fredhead filter apply, wherein only good reviews are valid?
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Exactly right. It seems that some here believe the candidates are auditioning for host of the Tonight Show. The objective of all this fol-de-rol is not entertainment, but a chance to get to know the candidates.
Haven’t had our coffee yet, I assume?
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