Posted on 01/26/2008 10:48:16 PM PST by FocusNexus
Scooter Clippard, who spent the past few months trying to get folks to open their wallet for Fred Thompson's ill-fated presidential campaign, now is dialing for dollars for John McCain.
Clippard, former national fundraising chairman for Thompson, is now national finance co-chair for McCain. The move came two days after Thompson shut down his campaign.
Says McCain, who hopes to get an endorsement from Thompson, "We are honored to have a key leader from my friend Fred Thompson's campaign. Fred made an invaluable contribution to this race and always enriched the discussion of ideas for America's future."
(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...
Giuliani and Huckabee are doomed. Look for both to drop out after being tied for fourth place after Ru Paul in Florida. Keyes finishes dead last after the Mickey Mouse write-ins.
The race will be between McCain and Romney and the winner will depend on how the conservatives and Evangelicals break. Doubt many conservatives will go with McCain. Guess it’s up to the Evangelicals.
He campaigned vigorously in both Iowa and SC against an up hill battle with the media. Huckabee and then McCain were getting all the press at that time.
Fred did not get in late, the campaign started months earlier than normal. (We do not need a two year campaign, something the Dems started out of a we hate bush, he's a lame duck syndrome.) Fred did not have the campaign team put together as a result of his normal starting time nor the finances of the others. He was playing no one for a sucker.
Huckabee is the phony conservative who has been siphoning off conservative votes and facilitating McCain's nomination. With Thompson out, Huckabee draws votes away from Romney and Giuliani who are semi conservative and who are certainly more so than either liberal McCain and Liberal but pro-life Huckabee.
The FL debates showed it’s gonna be Mitt & Rudy: they’ve teamed up.
I ain’t got no dog, either.
This sucks.
What would Rudy bring to Mitt's ticket? They're both competitive in the same big but typically blue states... and neither is a sure thing to hold on to red states.
Seems to me Mitt will pick more of a social conservative who could help bring in southern and evangelical votes.
I’m sure he IS hoping for that. May be the only way he can win.
*dreaming*
The great Jim Robinson, founder of the greatest conservative site in the history of the web, throws caution to the wind, and puts out the word to FL and Super Tuesday states that the only choice left for conservatives is the redoubtable Dr. Alan Keyes. Keyes shocks the world by crushing the remaining RINOs and marches on to the nomination. Keyes vs. Obama, this time in a fair fight, leads to the obvious choice for the American people: a real conservative statesman, with impressive foreign policy experience and a real vision for America’s return to being a shining city on a hill, crushes the empty-suited Barack Hussein and his vision of American “soft power.” Policies like the repeal of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments, quickly securing our border, reining in an out of control judiciary, and exercising executive power to stop the abortion holocaust, all occur post haste, sending the left into frenzies unseen in history.
*/dream*
Romney, a registered independent until 1993
Likes it both ways. Not Commander in Chief material
Mortally gored and ripped to shreds by RINOs.
Last time Obama whipped Keyes like a redheaded stepchild, and I suspect he’d do it again.
Been there, done that. Got the t-shirt.
If you watched the debate, you saw them specifically watching each others backs.
It was really very a natural tag, choreographed.
It broadcast their marraige.
And I voted for Ross Perot in 1992. So what does that have to with this election in 2008?
Hey, at least conservatism would be united and energized for the future, win or lose.
It’s either that or one of these RINOs that WILL destroy the party of Lincoln, not to speak of electing a Dem anyhow. And you can take that to the bank.
Nothing...It's the same party that gave us George Bush...
I was hoping that after 9/11, the war on terror, the open borders fiasco, China and the NWO, etc., Republicans would grow a conservative, pro American backbone...Didn't happen...
Keys is wound to tight.
Never elected to any Major office
Not Commander in Chief material
Yep, he did, back in 2000. McCain has moved leftward since that run, so Fred may not be willing to endorse him in the primary. However, if McCain is the one who ends up with the nomination, I imagine Fred will get behind him so we don't get any Democrat in the White House.
Hmm. Didn’t notice that. I saw McCain kissing Rudy’s butt, and Huckabee kissing McCain’s... Must have missed the Rudy/Mitt footsies.
A) He’s the only conservative left in the race.
B) He’s the only one that agrees with your tagline, and always has.
C) He’s the only one with legitimate claim to represent ALL of the parts of the Reagan coalition.
ah yes, Perot who brought us Clintoon
D) He’s the only one who can lose by a 70% or greater margin (again).
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