Fred Thompson Wins Wisconsin State Republican Convention Straw Poll (my title)

WisPolitics ^ | May 12, 2007 | WisPolitics GOP Convention Blog

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Fred Thompson, Walker top WisPolitics Straw Poll

LAKE GENEVA -- State GOP activists voting in the annual WisPolitics.com Straw Poll this weekend favored former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson for president in 2008 and Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker for governor in 2010. Fred Thompson received 95 votes, compared to 84 votes for former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. Mitt Romney was a distant third with 41 votes. Tommy Thompson and Sam Brownback, who got 14 votes, addressed the convention in separate speeches.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson was a speaker at the convention so this loss on his home turf to an undeclared candidate has to sting.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Fred Thompson ‘eats a declared candidate’s lunch’ Ping!

[StACase]

I love Tommy, but he ain’t presidential.

How ‘bout a Thompson Thompson ticket?

[Luke21]

And Brownback was lucky he got any votes at all, dissing Brett Favre in favor of Peyton Manning in Packer country.

Any politician knows to praise the local team and local hero. Brownback is a bigger goofball than I thought, and I always thought he was a big one.

[gpapa]

**Which Republican candidate do you support for president in 2008?

-Sam Brownback 14
-Jim Gilmore 0
-Newt Gingrich 12
-Rudy Giuliani 35
-Chuck Hagel 0
-Mike Huckabee 0
-Duncan Hunter 3
-John McCain 10
-Mitt Romney 41
-Ron Paul 1
-Tom Tancredo 8
-Fred Thompson 95
-Tommy Thompson 84
-No response 2
-Write in 1

[kerryusama04]

The Thompson Twins?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

And Brownback was lucky he got any votes at all, dissing Brett Favre in favor of Peyton Manning in Packer country.

As I posted on the Wisconsin state board, I was lucky enough to be in attendance at Senator Brownback’s speech last night at the Wisconsin State Republican Convention during the County Chairman’s banquet. I thought that he did a great job and everybody I talked with afterward was very impressed by him as a candidate. I thought the whole quarterback thing was just an intensional joke with the audience jokingly kidding him about it. Everyone was roaring when he said “OK, OK, Bart Starr then...” I thought he really connected well and did a good job of outlining his goals and principles. I think the only reason we were fortunate enough to get such a big-name candidate away from the states with earlier primaries was because the outgoing chair of the county chairman’s organization, Don Taylor, will be heading up Senator Brownback’s campaign in Wisconsin.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

I love Tommy, but he ain’t presidential. How ‘bout a Thompson Thompson ticket?

Sadly, most insiders here in Wisconsin think that Tommy 'ain't vice-presidential' material either.

[Josh Painter]

StACase wrote: "I love Tommy, but he ain’t presidential. How ‘bout a Thompson Thompson ticket?"

If Tommy isn't presidential, then he no business being veep, either. A heartbeat away from the presidency and all that...

Besides, the man can't seem to keep his foot out of his mouth.

Getting beat in your home state by someone who hasn't even declared yet... Ouch! That's got to hurt.

Thompson/Steele '08 - For a Stronger State of Our Union



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[golfisnr1]

Thompson, Hunter.

[fieldmarshaldj]

[Politicalmom]

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[LonePalm]

How ‘bout a Thompson Thompson ticket?

I can just see the Democrats' ads now:

This is funny because this is the way most of us on the right think of Hillary.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Alice in Wonderland]

I’d like a Thompson/Steele ticket too.

[Josh Painter]

[Caipirabob]

I really want to hear and understand his platform. I hear he's a conservative, but then some FReepers suggested he was "John McCain's severed siamese twin" (mine, just to summarize some of the things being posted.) We need to start doing some fact finding to rebute these things.

That and I truly hope Fred is all that he appears to be.

I think it would be wise for those good at such things to pull as much of his previous history on legislation as possible so we know if Fred is truly "our guy".

[Neville72]

“I think it would be wise for those good at such things to pull as much of his previous history on legislation as possible so we know if Fred is truly “our guy”.”

Where have you been? Fred’s voting record in the Senate has been posted repeatedly for the last 6 weeks.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm

[Neville72]

I like it. Also like Thompson/Watts Both VPs are true conservatives and would counter the expected Hillary/OsamaObama or Hillary/Richardson ticket nicely.