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To: reasonisfaith

No, I would have Fred run a better campaign that convinces more people to vote for him.


294 posted on 01/02/2008 5:34:41 PM PST by counterpunch (ABH - Anybody But Huckabee)
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To: counterpunch
No, I would have Fred run a better campaign that convinces more people to vote for him.

That's why you make cracks about his wife.

300 posted on 01/02/2008 5:36:39 PM PST by Route66 (America's Main Street - - - Fred D. Thompson / Consistent Conservative...The One with Gravitas)
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To: counterpunch

“No, I would have Fred run a better campaign that convinces more people to vote for him.”

You mean, you wouldn’t run it into the ground? You must be a Fred hater.


331 posted on 01/02/2008 5:50:17 PM PST by Checkers (First they came for the Mormons, but I said nothing because I was not Mormon.)
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To: counterpunch

Fred is doing just fine without your “help.”

If your point were a good one, you wouldn’t be needing to say it over and over and over....
Please, give it a rest. Everyone heard you.


428 posted on 01/02/2008 7:05:25 PM PST by daylilly
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To: counterpunch
“I would have Fred run a better campaign that convinces more people to vote for him.”

But you never give anyone the slightest reason to believe you have a clue how he might go about doing this. Many here are disappointed that Fred’s campaign hasn’t taken the GOP by storm. But your idea that stressing his national security credentials more would magically lift his campaign out of the doldrums is just silly.

Fred does stress those credentials. He raises them prominently in every stump speech. He mentions them in every media appearance. Nobody who is within reach of any message he puts out could fail to be aware of them. If Fred went further and slavishly followed your advice he would become a one dimensional candidate with less potential to attract support not more.

The only other suggestion I’ve seen from you is that his closing argument was too long and not sufficiently focused. Long it was by comparison to Hillary’s two minutes but it was hardly unfocused. It said precisely what needed saying and said it very well. If voters want vacuous soundbites there are plenty of choices. It may be wise to be the one candidate who refuses to insult the voter’s intelligence.

Fred hasn’t had the success he deserves so far. I wish you were right and his campaign had an obvious glitch that could be fixed. But if it does, you haven’t found it. Endlessly repeating the same lame advice serves no useful purpose.

454 posted on 01/02/2008 7:49:02 PM PST by fluffdaddy
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