I'm seriously doubting it.
He neatly avoids the upcoming debate; and, if he's afraid of debates, he can't beat Hillary.
I like the man personally, but I'm doubting he's up to the tasks - both of running a campaign, and of executing the duties as President.
Just opinions based on instinct. I could easily be wrong, here.
“He neatly avoids the upcoming debate; and, if he’s afraid of debates, he can’t beat Hillary.”
Is anyone even going to remember what happens in these early debates???
There will be debates up the ying yang with Thompson soon enough and nobody is going to remember anything that has happened in these early debates because the vast amount of voters are not even thinking about it yet.
Thompson is gonna slay the Hildabeast.
Seeing the political vogue-ing that passes for debates, I don't blame Fred so far. There will be dozens of debates, with varying and ridiculous formats, hosted by liberal gasbags. Between now and November '08, and no one will remember any of them but the last couple.
My guess is that Fred sees no upside for him in debating a fragmented field now, when what he really needs to do is not open himself up to "gotchas" by a hostile MSM editing the tape later, but to get himself known to the American people in a way of his choosing.
There ain't no level playing field. The Cellulite Empress will have her sound-bites shaped and polished lovingly by the termites working in the MSM for the next 14 months, with all the embarrassing goofs and telling, weird moments edited out. Campaign commercials will run as news stories on the alphabet networks, in addition to Hillary's paid ads. What Fred has to do is what he has already begun: a guerrilla, new-media strategy of getting his ideas and strengths spread around the country on venues like YouTube, talking over the heads of the idiot press to the people directly, as Reagan did. Once this job is done—having publicly defined his character, rather than letting our Maoist media assassinate it for him—he can enter the remaining debates knowing he has made it hard for the biased host to trifle with him.
And he will trounce Cruella. That's my guess as of now.
Seaplaner wrote: “He neatly avoids the upcoming debate; and, if he’s afraid of debates, he can’t beat Hillary.”
He will be in enough debates to clean the opposition’s clocks. He was a top-notch lawyer, one listed in Naifeh and Smith’s book, “The Best Lawyers in America.”
Fred was also a highly successful real-life prosecutor as an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
He’s not afraid of debating any of his opponents. Starting the 27th of this month, you will see why.
He neatly avoids the upcoming debate; and, if he's afraid of debates, he can't beat Hillary.
You know I was reading an article that was posted here today about the fact that Ronald Reagan skipped out on the January 5th 1980 Iowa Debate and it didn't seem to hurt him when all was said and done.
“Is Fred Thompson Made of Presidential Material?
I’m seriously doubting it.
He neatly avoids the upcoming debate; and, if he’s afraid of debates, he can’t beat Hillary.”
The ONLY debates that matter are the ones were he exposes Hitlery for the fraud she is.
Fred’s said he’d run because the country needed him, that we’re in peril. It’s literally do or die time, and it’s the one thing that motivated him when he’d rather spend time with his young family. Think about the change when he put himself through college, worked several jobs, supporting a young family. He worked his tail off, a huge turnaround from the ‘clown’ who didn’t much like book learning. On Sept. 6, he has to hit the ground running. Every stump speech has to be a firecracker, every appearance a barn burner, and I can’t wait.
Calling the recent series of candidate infomercials “debates” is like calling Chezwiz gourmet food.
Easily.
He'll be at the one three weeks later. Considering the fact that very few are watching them right now, it's not a big deal.