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I love him, too. He's not the lesser of several evils. He's somebody Conservatives can sincerely get behind. I'm sending money to his campaign. Go, Fred!!!

G. Moore

one by one as they were published by the AP. They did not all come out at once.

The guy has the most natural sense of humor and impeccable sense of timing of any candidate.

President Thompson will be a joy as well as a deliverance.

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Redneck Hippie

Redneck, You ain't no humor slouch yer sef.

Soldier's Mom - Golfer's Wife - Home alone a lot

Here's the lazy day question:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071214/ap_on_el_pr/2008_personal_side_lazy_...

Here's the keepsake question:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jjlPXCIEskuJPnLjdmppNryd2csQD8TGNOSG0

For some reason, they're not linking the other installments in this series with each new installment, so I can't find the others right this minute. But that should get you started.

Here's the nick-name question:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5isvEHr84C6OjCS85iDxw54TINclAD8TFDMLG0

And the favorite joke question:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvwEq4Tv8GQTO-_Cy2Tp0cEMMy8AD8TCR0L00

earlier, MSNBC took his debate joke at Mitt's expense (crowd loved it) and turned it into a headline, "Fred and Huckabee play class warfare card against Mitt."

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Redneck Hippie

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ya... because all she does is get pedis and manis and lunch with her other stay at home spoiled rich women.

The lady is quite qualified in her own right and has a career of her own.

It's not Fred Thompson who is trying to label Jeri Thompson as a trophy wife... I'll give you a hint on who's doing it... people who hate Fred Thompson... guess I just gave it entirely away.

The press called her that first. Fred was just punking on the media when he gave that answer.

Fred-baby is doing just fine with those answers.

Stare decisis is fo' suckas -- Feddie

he needs to make friends with the drive by press?

Molon Labe!

not the Drive-by MSM. I was meaning the right-leaning press and certain "in-power" Republicans.
The MSM isn't going to do a damn thing for Thompson or anyone of the Republican candidates.
I'm rather enjoying the Thompson campaign. It's refreshing and we need more of it. I'm just not sure it's the strategy that can win in the long run. It's not him, it's the system.
Thompson is doing his best to run against the system. If it works, more power to him and to the voters for getting it right.
R.J.

You said:

"The MSM isn't going to do a damn thing for Thompson or anyone of the Republican candidates."

Actually, the MSM is doing quite a bit for Huckabee right now.

Good summary, Tulip. As to Fred, his well grounded style doesn't play well to the media. He seems to view the Presidency the way Founding Fathers intended -- thoughtful, serious, and weighty. He won't play the media game like the others. You know, bombastic statements and "cult of personality" sort of thing. Maybe, having been in the business, he knows the cesspool that the media wants him to climb into.

Too bad. As a dem, I can see Fred as the president, and probably a good one. But he won't jump into kiddie pool and probably won't get the nomination because of that. Kind of ironic, the guy that really knows the game, won't go there. Says a lot of positive about his presidential timber.

Thompson said that pro-abortion lobbying was "private life". Which is an insult to every pro-lifer who has ever worked in a crisis pregnancy center, stood in front of an abortion clinic, or counseled a relative, friend, or coworker to save her baby. This is a big negative regardless of what NRTL says -- I've worked among the grass roots pro-life movement for 20 years. The HLA issue only raises our suspicions. In 1994, National Review described Thompson as "pro-choice". He was even rejected as a possible Bush VP as being too "pro-choice".

Thompson divorced the wife of his youth. While we expect this among Hollywood types, next to Huckabee and Romney it is a negative.

Fred Thompson's lymphoma will be a big negative come the general election. He looks like a sickly old man. He sounds like a sickly old man. And you better believe the voters will take notice of this when he stands next to Barrack Obama, John Edwards, or even Hillary "Botox" Clinton. (And you don't need to wait until the general to prove this... just look around places far less objective and substantive oriented then RS.)

Single term (plus) Senator with no executive experience... sound familiar? Big negative.

"The Great Communicator" Thompson is not. He was sold that way, but he can barely do a convincing job with rehearsals and a script. After eight years of ineloquence, we need a spokesperson that has a command of the English language and the confidence to communicate our winning ideas. The subtle quips that you politicos think are so cute will be gibberish for the millions of young people who will vote for the first time in the next election.

Fred Thompson is too easily characterized as Dick Cheneyish. If you believe this to be a compliment, I don't want to be on your sales team. Big negative.

Nixon on Thompson: "He's dumb as hell." Dismiss this if you will as being Nixon. But, that will be lost on the masses in the general. Sure as hell the left will use it. Big negative.

I totally need to get on the newsletter these huckabots get letting them know which candidate to attack today.

The assertion was that Fred has no negatives. These were negatives for me when I was a Fred supporter -- although Fred's refusal to fess up to the pro-abortion lobbying was when I dropped him from my list.

You clearly don't understand how law firms work or how lawyers do their job.

But whatever. I, quite frankly, don't believe a word you say. It's the new vogue for huckabots to say they were with X through thick and think, then boom, X did Y and you had to jettison X for Huckabee.

Then you'll ramble about how some of Huck's positions concern you, but you're willing to overlook it because of Z... And in one fell swoop, you disprove your position, you are able to attack another candidate's positions on Y and then imply X is weak on Z.

You can exchange any of those letters with names and position and character traits depending on which candidate you've been assigned to bash that day.

If there is another debate in Iowa and Duncan Hunter does well, will it be Duncan Hunter is a threat to the Huckassiah so we need to smear him too?

Hmmm, Fred will not raise his hand to a question... beneath him and the office, etc.

But, he WILL make some phone calls to lobby for abortionists. That's when I would have respected a gruff, "No."

As for your X, Y, Z nonsense... I will not compromise on abortion. I've always believed that a man who will not stand up for the innocent cannot be trusted not to raise taxes (e.g. GHWB).

And, I WAS for Fred before the "private life" remark. I could have almost bought into the weak "that's how a law firm works" defense if it had been accompanied by some kind of remorse or regret, mistake or accident. I hoped that Fred could stop Rudy. But, "private life" was an insult and why Huckabee became viable for me.

It's clear he just misspoke...he meant private practice and I think he clarified it. But hey, if you want to throw your support behind a illegal immigration supporter, weak on crime, full of hot air, ethically challenged politician, then I doubt that one comment was what turned you off to Fred. Its a real shame, because if the Life issue is your primary concern, then I think you would have been more than happy with the judge fred would have picked...plus he you would have the side benefit of actually having a conservative in the White House.

I've noticed this predilection from the 'bots as well. I tend to ignore such criticism as I do that from other hacks elsewhere. Every candidate has a few black spots. Fred is acknowledged by most people to have few. Their problem with Fred is that he isn't "pure" on the amendments that some support.

The fact that Fred won the National Right to Life Committee endorsement secures him my vote.

www.fred08.com
Redneck Hippie

Clearly NRTL does not speak for all pro-lifers. Clearly we are not all following lockstep behind Fred Thompson. At least not this "bot" and all his friends who have been in the pro-life trenches for twenty years plus.

I especially liked this:

Nixon on Thompson: "He's dumb as hell." Dismiss this if you will as being Nixon. But, that will be lost on the masses in the general. Sure as hell the left will use it. Big negative.

Yea... everybody just loves Nixon and thinks highly of his opinion. That's a big positive in my book. Anybody that Nixon didn't think too much of couldn't be too bad. I'd be worried if he spoke highly of him.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

I never said I agree with Nixon, but I don't think he is universally dismissed in everything, by all people.

It would make the ultimate attack ad for the MoveOn and DailyKos folks.

Thompson: Dumb as Hell 15 Second Ad

Fade in...

Thompson: Licking lips. "I, er... ah..." Cough. Licks lips again. Clearing throat.

Voice over: "Even one Republican President said that Fred Thompson is dumb as hell."

Fade in/out... "He's dumb as hell." - 37th President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon.

Voice over: "Paid for by Citizens for an Intelligent President"

should have a devastating effect on any candidate.

Most conservatives view the MSM as an enemy, and Fred is winning points with conservatives by refusing to play the media's monkey games. However, no-one has ever run against the MSM before because they punish you for it by not giving you air-time or by saying bad things about you or by showing unflattering pictures of you. Even Fox News is conspicuously counting Fred out when the poll numbers don't justify his disqualification just yet. A great majority of the voting public will never see evidence of Fred's wit, humor, and leadership because the media will not amplify his great moments like they would for another candidate. Instead, they'll keep playing up how old and tired he looks, how he doesn't have the mythical "fire in the belly, how he's married to a much younger woman, and how he's already out of the running. I'm rooting for him to overcome all that, though. Go, Fred!

They don't have any "we especially hate this guy... so we're gonna stick it to him" cards left to play since they already play that hand every cycle.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

Actually, the MSM in general is being very kind to Huckabee right now. And Fox News is being especially unkind to Fred. Fox News does have a "we especially hate this guy" card to play with the Republican field, because we have reason to trust them to play fair with the Republican field in contrast to the other MSM outlets. So FNC freezing one viable candidate out has a huge impact on Republican primary voters.

not new. The pinheads on Fox have been doing this for many weeks now. The reality is, Fred is staging a comeback and is a threat to the anointed one (Rudy). Nothing they say would surprise me, especially since O'Reilly purposely did not include Fred in his online poll. The Fox blatant Rudy bias has turned off just about every Fred supporter for many, many weeks. Some people are even turning to CNN because at least they bash all conservatives equally.

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Redneck Hippie

Yeah, I've noticed FNC's anti-Fred bias, too. I thought Fred was just being whiny a couple of weeks ago when he claimed that Fox News is trying to freeze him out. But when I saw O'Reilly's deliberate omission of Fred on that online poll, despite Fred still being ahead of McCain in most national polls, I realized Fred's right and got mad. I don't know what's going on at FNC, but it's not good. I'm losing trust in them day by day.

They all called it an open 5 way tie, though two of them said that Fred was not quite as equal as the others. They *did not* dismiss his chances.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.

Absolutely did and I will post the transcript in my blog on this topic when it is available.

They talked about the five-way tie and that led to the Fred is done discussion.

It's just starting to be a pattern (leaving Fred out or discounting Fred's chances without justification). Like I said, I thought Fred was just being whiny when he claimed FNC doesn't like him. But I've seen enough cases now, on several different shows, of Fred being ignored when he shouldn't have been, that I have to give some credit to the theory.

FNC really needs to get over the fact that he skipped that debate. They must have a bunch of children running that organization.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

I don't think it was the debate that pissed them off...I read somewhere that one of the staffers that left early in Fred's campaign either worked at FNC before or had close friends that still do...either way, the friends were not happy about the way things went down.

update on the latest Fox "tricks." The fact that Fox is going way, way overboard again just confirms the idea that Rudy has lost momentum and the Fox pinheads are more worried about Fred than before. They should be worried. Things aren't going too well for their guy, and Fred is gaining momentum.

www.fred08.com
Redneck Hippie

Hey Redneck Hippie - from one long standing FredHead to another -- feels kinda toasty in the bellies this morning -- doesn't it.

That warm feeling comes from being true to our principles and not being blown around by the BS promises and slickness of other candidates.

I can't wait to get home tonight and get on the phones for Fred.

I agree. I love it when a candidate gives me an intelligent answer instead of a 15 second sound bite.

In doing so that candidate is telling me that he trusts me to be an adult, be serious, face reality instead of drifting off into the fantasy land of campaign promises.

I don't need stupid pledges (with outrageous loopholes) or candidates with slick answers but principles barely skin deep.

We face serious problems in this country, and I am looking for the candidate with the depth to deal with those problems.