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Fred Thompson for President, Quote of the Day

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Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-18 12:41|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mods, please put this in the Opinion section. I coulda sworn I had it there.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-18 12:48|| 2007-03-18 12:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Moved. I like Fred Thompson, but time is officially short with California moving up its primary date to February 8, 2008. There is now less than 12 months 'til decision day. Thompson needs to declare he's in or out *now*, not leave the GOP to keep waiting for the Mahdi to emerge from the well.

Get in now, Fred, or we'll have to go to 'lections with the candidates we have.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-18 12:58|| 2007-03-18 12:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Error, my bad. The Cali primary is February 5, 2008. Clock's ticking, y'all.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-18 13:01|| 2007-03-18 13:01|| Front Page Top

#4 respectfully disagree, Sea. He should wait til late summer, let everyone else self-destruct and chew each other up, then jump in. He does have to worry about raising $ in a much shorter period, but I don't see anyone else, except perhaps Rudy, getting massive support.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-18 14:07|| 2007-03-18 14:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Fred gets it.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-03-18 14:08|| 2007-03-18 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 "You go into the election with the candidates you have, not the ones you wish you had."

-- Dunald Romsfeld

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-03-18 14:15|| 2007-03-18 14:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Good one Steve. ANd right now, Fred Dalton Thompson is the only candidate I really *want*. The others will simply be voting anti-Hillary, not pro-(Guliani,Romney).

I will never vote for McCain. Never. I'll vote libertarian instead. He would probably be WORSE than Hillary in some ways.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-03-18 16:13|| 2007-03-18 16:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Ditto, OS. Ditto Frank G.

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2007-03-18 17:45|| 2007-03-18 17:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Anybody have a sense as to how Thompson and Guiliani mix? That could be a hell of a ticket.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2007-03-18 18:59|| 2007-03-18 18:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Quick take? I doubt either could be VP to the other. A good VP would be Duncan Hunter, who's not going to be voted in as POTUS, but would do a great job if needed. Good geographical balance (and ideological for Rudy) for both

* full disclosure: Hunter's my congressman

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-18 19:10|| 2007-03-18 19:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Frank, he's not my Congressman, but he is the only politician to whose campaign I have ever donated. Duncan Hunter is a good man, smart enough and tough enough to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done either as VP or Pres.

Posted by RWV 2007-03-18 19:39|| 2007-03-18 19:39|| Front Page Top

#12 I've donated to him too. Good on ya RWV!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-18 19:45|| 2007-03-18 19:45|| Front Page Top

#13 I think the public is hungry for a straight talker, someone who isn't going to bullshit them. Me, I long for someone who isn't going to be a Casper Milquetoast against our enemies, foreign OR domestic.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-03-18 20:48|| 2007-03-18 20:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Hillary & John McCain - the Scylla and Charybdis of '08

Posted by DMFD 2007-03-18 22:38|| 2007-03-18 22:38|| Front Page Top

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