This should drive all the Fredheads batty.
It escapes me why any soul could possibly be surprised by this. Thompson and McCain were joined at the hip in the Senate, and Fred carried the water for McCain-Feingold more than any other single individual. Both Feingold and McCain’s chief of staff publicly credited Thompson with being the prime mover of the bill through the Congress.
Thanks asshole!
I supported Fred, I knew this coming after Romney dropped out.
I am sad that people are not mature enough to accept this. We can disagree on issues, but at the end of the day it’s about our country.
Jesus...what’s the big deal? Everyone knew he was going to endorse him. THEY’RE CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS!
Geeze. If I had a close friend running for president and he secured my party’s nomination, I’d endorse him too. Why on earth wouldn’t he?
I’ll put my hatred for McStain up against anyone’s here. But really....get a grip people.
Hank
I won't.
I’m actually very happy about this. McCain is the best of the rest and maybe we can have a good conservative VP. McCain is older than Reagan and will be the oldest President to have won the White House. Better McCain than Huckabee or Romney. I didn’t like any of them but if one was weighing records of conservatism McCain is clearly the winner. It doesn’t say much for the health of the Republican party but regardless we need to think beyond our distaste for McCain.
“This should drive all the Fredheads batty”
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As a 100% FredHead (I took a week off work to support his campaign in Iowa as a volunteer) I can say that it didn’t drive me “batty” in the least.
Fred did not betray the cause. The conservative cause will not be enhanced by letting Hillary or Obama win in November.
Prima Donas and children throw a tandrum when they don’t get everything they want. We can’t afford to do that. The WOT and SCOTUS are just two of many important reasons why we should make sure that the Dimmocrats don’t win the Presidency.
What Fred did makes sense, and from what I know about him, he did it because he believes that it was the right thing to do for the country he loves so dearly.
Not this one.
I was for Fred from the get go because I think he's an adult who can think without getting into a snit if everything doesn't go his way.
He'll stand his ground, but he's also a realist - ie, a grownup. He assesses the situation that IS, rather than the one we wanted but that has gone by - and decides what the best strategy is now.
He's not gonna take his marbles and go home, he's gonna play them to win against the bigger enemy...
On the other hand, looks like there's going to be a lot of thumb-suckers sitting home with their marbles in their laps...but feeling very superior to everyone else.
No, not at all. He wants everyone to get behind the candidate and defeat the dems. I hate McCain but the idea of actively or passively giving over a vote to elect either Obama or Hillary is the same as giving allegiance to the party of traitors and is a bigger betrayal to the constitution than voting for McCain.
As a recent Fredhead, here is my response:
yawn.
LOL
You "Principled Conservatives" are sounding more and more like Libertarians, every day.
Not this one. What he said was: "This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,"
That's as weak an endorsement as I've heard in a long time. It doesn't endorse McCain's nomination as much as it attempts to put differences aside and bring the party together.
That's something I can understand although I won't be going along with it.
“This should drive all the Fredheads batty.”
Not this one. Fred waited until after it was over - and it is, Huckabee won’t win squat - before he endorsed McCain. He is doing what almost every Party leader will do, and rally behind McCain. He didn’t lift a finger to help McCain win the nomination.
That said, I won’t support McCain. I believe the best overall outcome for conservatives is to fight for Congress & hope the dems take the WH. Conservatism needs to be explained to the masses, and a liberal republican President - like GWB had been on nearly every issue except the GWOT - undercuts the message. We’ve gone 20 years since a conservative had the bully pulpit. We cannot afford to have conservative thought undermined any more by a big government, compassionate conservative.
We need to rally to WIN CONGRESS...because the Presidency is already lost.
If I can be called anything here during the last six months, it would have been a FredHead, so here goes an appropriate response to your post:
I am happy for Thompson’s backing of McCain, and I hope it is the first step toward his being asked to run as VP.
I would enthusiastically support McCain if he were to engineer such a ticket. I would like McCain/Hunter even more.
Actually this does not surprise me, but I am glad that he waited till the nomination fight was over to let us decide who we want!!
Now he is a Repulican, and to not support the nominee would be seen as politically traitorous. Did he say that McCain will win the next Election, no, because anyone with a coherant thought know that is not going to happen.
The only way McCain could get me to vote for the Repulican Ticket ‘notice I didn’t say McCain’ is if he put Fred or Romney on as VP!!!
Then I will go to bed nightly with a prayer that the lord would save us and call home our nominee so that we might be led by a conservative and not McCain.
No, it doesn’t. Loyalty and regard are not transferable, in politics or business.
This Fredhead is happy. Good people are endorsing McCain..Thompson, Nancy Reagan, Forbes, Ted Olsen, Brownback, Coburn and stand by for Newt and more....anyone that does NOT believe their is a difference between McCain and Hillary or Obama is a deadhead