Posted on 12/31/2007 9:55:24 AM PST by rface
And so this is the way the savior's campaign ends - not with a bang, but with an empty signup sheet..........
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This is what a disaster looks like: Fred Thompson, the former future "savior" of the Republican Party, looking droopy-eyed and jowly in a black leather jacket and tan ten-gallon hat, wandering like some lonesome lost cowboy through the snows of southeastern Iowa in search of voters - and not finding many.
A few minutes earlier, the former U.S. Senator, "Law and Order" star, and would-be conservative hero had emerged from the Smokey Row coffeehouse, where, in his endless search for the only kind of media he can afford - free - he'd sat down with the local newspaper. Otherwise, Smokey Row held at most two dozen largely disinterested patrons. Thompson famously loathes the grip-and-grin side of politics and smiled wanly through his chit-chats. As he staged a handshake with one woman, the photographer had called out, "Look at each other!" Thompson couldn't resist mocking the artificiality of the forced smiling eye contact. "That's the hardest thing in the world to do," he chuckled.
At least someone cared enough to get her picture taken with him. Many of the folks in the quiet coffeehouse ignored Thompson.........
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Perhaps defensive about the wan crowd at the Smokey Row, Thompson's press secretary took care to note that this visit was an unannounced drop-by; nothing should be read into the head count.....
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Out in the hallway stood three campaign workers holding clipboards. "Would you like to sign up to caucus for Fred?" they called to the departing voters. Few stopped.
"That's it. The room's empty," one worker reported back to the others. I could see the signup sheets from over their shoulders. One had two names recorded on it, another just a single name. The third was entirely empty. And so this is the way the savior's campaign ends - not with a bang, but with an empty signup sheet.
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Click the link for the full article.......
This thread should stimulate some comment at Fred’s HQ here at freerepublic.
I love it!
A Romney supporter has to turn to CBS News, the home of Dan Rather and Katie Couric, for a slam on Fred Thompson!
And, strangely, you throw in a Ron Paul graphic!!
That’s just crazy. What does all that say about you?
The media is doing more to kill FDT’s campaign then anyone else.
Easiest way to kill a campaign is to just not report on it, and when they do report that the campaign is dead (they’ve been doing that since before the campaign even started).
It's a fair bet that the best Republican candidate is the one least supported by the mainstream media.
Bada Ping (for the crying Ron Paul suppporter)
Going to get Popcorn!
GREAT news for Fred fans that CBS comes out with a hit piece. IMO his “talk” this morning will be substantially more telling than the day-to-day fart blowing of a media source everyone in this forum knows well is competely full of BS.
Fred will surprise all of us.
The only sign up sheet that matters is a ballot. I’m sure given a plane ticket, a car full of gas and a few hours I can find a few empty Romney sign-up sheets.
It says that I ....ummmmm...I must be some sort of liberal troll.
They fear the Fred....
I am betting that on Friday, Thompson will announce he’s supporting Mc Cain.
Ok lookie....two pro-aborts with shining faces
how friggin wonderful...let’s all clap!
When was the last time you heard Duncan Hunter’s name on TV?
Lets have a vote before we appoint Ken doll as our nominee ,if you don’t mind
The desperation and hate is dripping out of this CBS hate piece.
I hadn't thought of that....
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