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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We get along rface, but man, Romney is so full of $hit that its insulting even to listen to him.
I'm sure hoping so, I don't want to have to peel the Thompson sticker off my car before the end of January...
Fred is the only candidate that does not act or look like a circus actor, or a phony plastic banana :P Go Fred Go
BWAHAHA!
>It says that I ....ummmmm...I must be some sort of liberal troll.
and there it is.
Haha! Damn, that is funny. Romney in front of a sign that has something to with “conservative”.
I’m betting that on Friday, Romney or Huckabee will announce they are withdrawing.
That is a wonderful picture of Mitt and his beautiful wife.
Would you happen to have any pictures of Mitt marching along side Martin Luther King?
After all, Mitt said he marched with MLK so it must be true!
Ping, need your material
The focus on the one small coffee shop is rather strange. Thompson is spending time in-state and I’m sure there were many other stops along the way.
Then there’s the reference to begging for money. Yeah, that’s a first, a candidate asking supporters to make donations.
Is this the same nine year old reporter that asked Chelsea for a commment? I doubt it. That kid sounded more savey than this idiot.
I just don’t like rich guys trying to buy the Oval Office. Makes me nervous.
The leftist wackos really hate Fred.
As I have said before, the worst trash will be dumped right before Iowa and NH vote.
With the race being tight, each candidate is throwing all the mud the they can and see what sticks.
Well better then Huck, Rudy or Mitt, but not much. How’s McCain on the 2nd anyways?
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How about a copy of the letter where the NRA endorsed him for governor.
Really would like a picture of those illegals mowing his yard as well.
Romey??
Yeah, Americans will elect and embrace a flip-flopping weasel from Massachusetts, home of “gay marriage” and “Fisting for Third Graders”; the same state that routinely re-elects Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Barney Frank, Edward Markey, and Bill Delahunt, and hasn’t sent a Republican to Washington DC in over a decade.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
he is the strongest candidate, that’s why they are trying to discard him as a viable candidate. We will see what happens...it will probably surprise alot of people.
Fred’s not going ANYWHERE.
This is it in a nut shell. It's funny that the first hand reports from members have been so different from this one.
I wonder why it's so important for the media to declare Fred dead and buried before the first vote has been cast? If he is such a bad candidate, they should be anxious to keep him in the running in hopes of pitting him against their own.
The truth is, Fred Thompson is the last candidate they want to run against. The lazy no fire in the belly lies won't be enough to keep their candidate afloat and they won't have anything else.
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