Posted on 01/21/2008 8:13:53 AM PST by PurpleMan
Just heard on Laura Ingram (quoting Carl Cameron of FoxNews) that Thompson will drop out tomorrow.
Bad results, ill mother....
When Laura said about Mitt, ‘he’s hot!!!!’, I shook and bowed my head.
I am glad I did not hear that. lol. People always say here that politics has turned in American Idol but I never believed it. If just thought it was some FRiends being funny, but that statement is a bit disturbing. lol.
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but these two self professed Conservatives are either showing a lack of intelligence or they're part of the “New Conservative” movement, the one where anyone can proclaim they are conservative, regardless of past actions.
I always thought of him as a spoiler myself. If he drops out and supports, mcpain, it will have come full circle.
Too bad people were so busy worrying about the mythical electability beast that they could only throw a good man an anchor as he drown.
I so agree with that. God help our country now.
Not me.
Romney has been playing dirty tricks on Thompson since the fake website Romney put up before Thompson got in the race.
Oh, and folks, an FYI.
I was around in 2000 when the “base” were extremely loud about not voting for the lesser of two evils in Bush, when they could have had Bauer or Keyes or Forbes.
Turnout was just fine. The narrow win was because of the DUI report release and the stay at homes were so very few that they didn’t matter — and Hillary is much more hated than Gore was.
So everyone can relax. There is nothing new under the sun. In fact, I see fewer chest beaters on FR announcing stay at home plans now than I did in 2000. Folks are decent folks here on FR, now and in 2000, and when the time comes they won’t condemn their family and neighbors to life under Hillary with a Democrat Congress.
You will always have that, at least for now...
“But all is not lost. Freedom and liberty require eternal vigilance and conservatives can take back the party.”
But, in the meantime, to what extent will the country be reduced to? With today’s changing demographics I fear that conservatism is a dying philosophy. Like entropy, liberalism’s end result is an irriversible path to chaos. Freedom and liberty, in the past, were often obtained by violence, upheaval and revolution, as is the case in our own history. What has not been factored into the equation is the ever creeping danger of Islam that our politicians conveniently ignore.
If Fred can only hang in there until Huckabee drops out, then he can still pull it out. My fear is that if he drops out, Huckabee will be the beneficiary, and new life will be breathed into his campaign.
If Fred drops out, I won’t be watching any more of the debates.
Fred is gone. It’s over. Everyone can’t have their candidate. Conservatism has degrees. It always has. We all choose the least bad option and in the general election that will be easy to choose.
Wow.
Lots of disappointments lately, eh?
Conservative VOTERS are most definitely allowed in the GOP Big Tent . . . as long as they stay seated in the back of the bus.
I am starting to get pissed at Cheney. In the end what was he good for if not to carry on the fight? Grrr!
No use getting pissed at Cheney. He told us from the beginning that he would not run for President. We had eight years to get our act together, but we waited too long and we are still not there.
My bumper sticker for next year;
Don't Blame Me, I'm One Of The Very Few Who Voted Republican
Thanks! Though I’m sure you wouldn’t last long with a bunch of pissed off conservatives around.
What is the current delegate count? Does anybody have those figures?
Of course Fred has to drop first...
“Fred did not realize how much he would have benefitted from the many months of early (ridiculously early, IMHO) debates. He may have learned before the primaries started how to talk a little faster, to stop clearing his throat and to keep his hands off of his face.
I agree with his positions more than those of any other candidate and believe that he is a man of character. I worried about the lack of leadership that he demonstrated in the Senate Chinese funny-money hearings.
Sadly his years of seventeen takes to get a couple of sentences right on Law and Order did nothing to improve his ability to appeal to a one-take audience.”
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I’m with you on that. It would indeed be nice if we could have some long-format “Lincoln-Douglas”-style substantive debates but you run with the tactics they’re using.
I too, have not forgotten his somnambulistic performance on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee during ChinaGate. I recall other conservatives noting this would eventually come back to bite him.
I see him hurting Huckabee the most, taking away the southern vote.
It would be easier, perhaps, if so many were such damn hypocrites. Say one thing, do another... seems everyone is becoming a politician, even alleged bastions of conservatism. One wonders what Rush will do next.
You sell your soul at what ever price you want. My price hasn’t been met and resets higher by the minute.
Don't Blame Me, I Refused To Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils - Blame The GOP
| HUCKABEE STAFF TO GO WITHOUT PAY (HUCKABEE CAMPAIGN BROKE?) |
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| Posted by ReagansRaiders On 01/20/2008 10:50:14 PM CST · 121 replies Rumor/undisclosed sources | 1/20/2008 Just got this from a trusted source I know personally: A buddy of mine has been on Huckabees campaign for a number of months now. He was asked yesterday if he would stay on without pay- as in- he was no longer going to get paid starting yesterday. There are a bunch of folks way under him in the chain of campaign- they're all being cut and then the campaign will be reorganizing with any that do choose to stay. Doesn't sound like there is going to be very many. That's right boys and girls. Mike Huckabee's campaign appears to... |
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I understand your position.
But the RINO establishment is just a slow death.
Exactly- I’m tuning in now to listen to Rush...fingers crossed.
Fred will not be at the top of your ticket idea, the best Fred can hope for would be VP, and I personally don’t see that as an option.
Rush started his Romney shift last week. Expect it to continue. I fully expect Rush to give the ‘Romney or Hillary’ speech in the next two months.
We haven’t had a conservative nominee since 1984. I’ve grown tired of that situation. I might be leaving the booth in November w/o making a mark for President.
In my opinion, the only reason he came in 3rd was because of Huckabee. If Huckster would drop out, I think Fred would have a good shot at the southern states. I hope he could only stick it out. Just don’t formally announce you’re dropping out. Skip Florida if you must, but stay in at least through Super Tuesday. It’s only 2 weeks away.
This is more remicent of ‘76 or ‘92. Put up RINO candidates and see the results.
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HUH? Geesh some people just like to read things into anything.
Heck, I would give Fred Thompson a cigar for what he’s accomplished up till now, considering what the media has done to him.
***Donations for what? Sitting around at home and smoking cigars. He’s quitting.***
If Americans have been fooled into accepting this as the best they can do; let them reap the rewards.
I'll write in a name before I vote for another RINO.
The only surprise to me is that he didn’t do it Saturday. Fred was my 2nd choice after Hunter, but neither of them have gone anywhere which tells me that there are few thinking conservatives (or maybe just few conservatives period) voting in the early primaries
“McCain...it seems that these so-called “new media” hurt MCCain a whit. The man is WINNING the Republican primary and I’m bitter.”
The so-called Republican primaries so far have been decided by an influx of dem and independent voters.
I do not call them Republican primaries.
From left to far left. Vote Rudy McHuckney!
Romney has been playing dirty tricks on Thompson since the fake website Romney put up before Thompson got in the race.
I agree that Romney did some nasty things at the beginning of the campaign, but lately I think he has changed his ways. I guess you could call it flip flop, but I call it learning a valuable lesson.
Actually, this primary season has been a really sickening display of how the media is manipulating the minds of sheeple at will. The fix is in on a multitude of levels.
All i can say is that we are not powerless. If the new media can topple Dan Rather and swiftboat “Jon Carey”, it can find a way to get other information out too.
Obama and Hillery scare me. It scares me even more to hear people I know are intelligent in other arenas supporting them and buying their cover stories. Most people do not look below the surface and have no comprehension of the evil that is out there. I am so thankful for FR, where we can get a deeper, broader picture.
For what it’s worth, I watched CNN this morning instead of FOX...first time in years.
Fred will not be at the top of your ticket idea, the best Fred can hope for would be VP, and I personally don’t see that as an option.
The only reason I want Fred first is because he is old has heck and can’t run in eight years as he will be pushing 80. Romney is at least 15 years younger than Fred and can run in 2016. Do we want another open ticket again? I don’t this is ridiculous.
Thompson was born in 42, Romney in 47. Must be the die job.
Do you speak as a Fred supporter? Or have you been supporting another candidate?
Great screen name. Fits you.
Yes...I'm bigoted against cults.
30 years ago it would have been called common sense.
Today, people like you try to make it politically incorrect to refuse to vote for a candidate with nutty beliefs that rival Dennis Kucinich's UFO theories.
Won't vote for Hare Krishnas.
Won't vote for Scientologists.
...and won't vote for a Mormon either.
Sue me.
Have fun with it! Just to remind you...
When Scooter Libby was being dragged through the mud, who was the ONLY ONE to have the balls to stand up for Libby?
That’s the type of quality individual you lose should Fred surrender.
It’s also the thanks Fred gets from the RINO Party Elite.
If President Reagan were running today, his own party would do him in.
But character is revealed. Just as someone who only stops cheating because it isn’t working has revealed his/her character.
They saddled him with the RINO Bush, even then, after trying to do him in without success.
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