Thompson's Fundraising Underwhelming
By Nicole Belle Sunday Jul 29, 2007 6:01pmYou know, Fred, George warned you: Prezidentin' is "hard work." If you're not willing to put in the effort, don't be surprised if the dollars don't flow in.
Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 million in June, substantially less than some backers had hoped, according to Republican sources.[..]
He attracted support from such top-shelf party figures as Mary Matalin, Liz Cheney, George P. Bush and other GOP stalwarts who saw him as a potential Hillary Clinton slayer.
But many Republicans have turned queasy as Thompson has ousted part of his original brain trust and repeatedly delayed his official announcement, which is now planned for shortly after Labor Day, in the first two weeks of September.
Some are already saying a prospective Thompson run is a flop. "I just don't see it anymore," said a key Republican who had been extremely enthusiastic about a Thompson candidacy.
"That number is really underwhelming. There were indications it could be double that. They've been saying that people were waiting for Fred, and the money was going to pour in. He looks like he's already losing momentum."
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stick a fork in him and flip him over.......he's done!
How appropriate, seeing as how Thompson is himself underwheming as a candidate.
w.smith @ 2:
My thoughts exactly!
FRED THOMPSON ‘UNDERTAKES’ TO PLAY REAGAN
You mean an unimpressive, lazy, alcoholic skirtchaser from the fine state of Tennessee is struggling to raise cash??? I thought it'd be rolling in by the millions....based on the off-chance this skidmark MIGHT run for president.
Stick to Hollywood, Freddie. The work is a lot easier....and much less annoying.
"...He attracted support from such top-shelf party figures as Mary Matalin, Liz Cheney, George P. Bush..."
Ooooooh! Top shelf eh? That pretty much says it all.
Bye Bye Freddie! I guess it's true, there isn't a single Republican candidate who can run in '08, maybe they can have a Thompson/McCain ticket. One can tell you what an outsider he is and the other can tell you how wonderful everything is going in Iraq, they would make the perfect Republican team, failure meets failure!
Yes but Chris Wallace likes his smell.
Correction: Chris Matthews. Hard to tell the moronic pundits apart.
I see people with Fred Thompson bumper stickers. He hasn't even declared his candidacy. It blows my mind. I don't see what anyone, even Republicans, see in this guy.
The 'Parade' in yesterday's Sunday paper had a reader question that asked why Fred has not formally announced his run for president. The response..... residuals from 'Law & Order'. When he declares, no more reruns, no more checks for Fred...could be a good thing.....;o)
This is unrelated to ol' Fred, but Ted Stevens' (R-Alaska) home is being raided by the FBI!
Jim @ 9:
Matthews...Wallace...pretty much interchangable heads for these two.
All you have to do is realize that we'd have another "bad actor" in the White House with a First Lady who is total plastic from head to toe and an airheaded juvenile to boot who looks more like his grand-daughter than a first lady and it's enough to gag you!
shoobadoo @ 10:
It just shows you how they have too much money to waste. They could use those funds to make our country a better place to live. Instead they waste money on wannabe candidates who will only make things worse.
Thompson's campaign was over before it got off the ground. Once the public took one look at his trophy wife and imagined her in the white house, it began to resemble more of a horror flick than some of Thompson's worst acting.
miss_kitty @ 6:
Yeah...I find this part particularly funny.
You can be a slimeball and win but you can't be lazy. Even GWB had to peddle his ass off to raise the bucks.
Soon he'll be out there doing commercials like Bob Dole touting the latest ED drug - no way we need a bufoon like Thompson.
Miss Kitty: I think that was a major "oops" on the part of the GOP to indicate that Lynne and Georgie had selected him as their candidate to support. I think that easily qualifies for the "kiss of death".
I am not pleased with any of the Republican candidates so far, we need a real President, not an actor.
CHENEY 2008!!!
I'll bet his CURRENT wife is upset about the fundraising too. I can't keep track of how many failed marriages, divorces, new weddings the FAMILY VALUES hypocrit has.
Man, with P on board Thompson shoulda raised at least $5 or $10 more, don'tchya think?
I mean, it's P.
Mr. NeoCon @ 21:
hahahahahaha..hohohohohohoho hehehehehehehehe....that was funny
None of the Republicans are real candidates, they just play them on TV. IT's all about controlling the perception of reality, because they have no will to control actual reality. What we get from the free market and privatize everything party are EXCUSES.
He attracted support from such top-shelf party figures as Mary Matalin, Liz Cheney, George P. Bush and other GOP stalwarts who saw him as a potential Hillary Clinton slayer.
Who is George P. Bush?
And that Mary Matlin sure knows how to pick them! Cheney's right hand man and now this loser. Follow the Matlin and know who is fucked.
Nicole @ Top:
You know, I just can't see Fred and George's names together without thinking of Harry Potter.
And Voldemort.
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What Fred should do is stick to playing that sucky New York Carpetbagger DA on "Law and Order."
Meanwhile, in case anyone's interested, the Chief Justice suffered a seizure:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_roberts
Oddly enough I don't see this as a really negative thing. Since when was the most important thing about a candidate--liberal or conservative--their fundraising ability?
I really wish we had publicly funded campaigns to level the playing field and remove the lobbyists and special interests from the equation. Alas, probably will never be...
The Political Junkie @ 29:
Was that a search and siezure like Senator Ted??
By far the most damning indictment of Thompson is the fact he bailed his senate seat in 2002. That is, in the aftermath of 9/11, and while the impending war with Iraq was hanging fire, he chose to go Hollywood and cash in. Some at Digby's pointed that out the other day, and how true it is.
By far the most damning indictment of Thompson is the fact he bailed his senate seat in 2002. That is, in the aftermath of 9/11, and while the impending war on Iraq was hanging fire, he chose to go Hollywood and cash in. Someone at Digby's pointed that out the other day, and how true it is.
King of Mean @ 22:
Yep, now she's going to have to go back on the pole to raise some cash. Coming to a strip club near you soon.
I bet the little bitch was drooling over the prospect of some real easy cash......
He doesn't raise money because he's an idiot with absolutely nothing new to offer. Bring on Gingrich. LOL
Put his wife in charge of fundraising. All you need is a small stage with a brass pole in the center.
Anna Nicole raised a billion
airethat way.myiq2xu @ 37:
Gee, and I thought that her deceased husband was sooo old he could'nt get it raised/
Doggiebobo @ 38:
In the lawsuit filed by the old fart's son she claimed that the marriage had been "consumated."
Even though she never healed the sick, apparently she could raise the dead.
Mr. NeoCon @ 21:
perhaps you might lick chenys balls he,d run for you!
Looks like that ol' hound dog will be uhstayin on the porch
Not another bad actor President.
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Did Fred of Hollywood really plan to run or is he just having fun?
Who in their right mind would want to be the GOP candidate?
"Me, Me! I want to get bitch-slapped in the Electoral College! I want to break McGovern's record! I want to be the first GOP or Democratic candidate to not win a single state!"
If the Democrats manage to lose next year I'll be moving to someplace where the beer is cold and the women (and weather) are warm.
myiq2xu @ 43:
If the Dems lose in 08, it will be because of voter fraud again....So we must be diligent
when we go to the polls; especially if no paper trail available. Read today that ALL
tests done in Calif. on the voting machines turned up instances that the could be hacked.
Boy are the republicans hysterical or what?
What on Earth makes Fred suitable for the
Whitehouse at all? He ain't no Ronnie Raygun
thats for sure.
Going into the Fall 2007, there isn't 1 single GOP
candidate worth his salt. Ron Paul is the only one
at all acceptable, that could actually appeal to
swing voters, but the Party Oligarchs have already
handed him his hat. Perhaps the GOP will be more
reasonable next year, and give Ron Paul the support
he deserves. He really is their only chance in Hell
of winning.
The "Reagan Revolution" is coming to an end. After 20 years of the rich getting richer, no middle class tax relief, reduced healthcare, reduced education assistance, stagnant wages, lost jobs, ideological flagwaving and wars in which only the poor and middle class children are expected to die...the country has had enough.
The asshat parade is coming to an end. Now it's time for the grownups to come back into the house and clean up the mess that the children made.
Poor Republicans! Can't find a candidate, can they?
FEEL THE NEWTMENTUM!
Anyone beginning to see a pattern here.With all this bad news coming out about Iraq and especially this crooked Bush WH these fat cats that supported the Republicans are pulling back.They did not make their money being fools.Money is drying up for straight-talking McCain and now empty-suit Thompson.Look for a few more to fall very soon.
I think Thompson needs to sport a little cleavage of his own - you know - notch-out the belt - drop the waistline . . . it'll go well with the fake folksey personna he cultivates. Watch the money roll in then.
I don't honestly know how he expect to compete with Hillary unless he does this anyway.
Then we'll have the Reich-wing media going bananas over the fact that Thompson actually has an ass-crack and was he unfairly exploiting his "pair?"
Thompson has an ass-crack?!? - who knew?
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This can't be so. Fred Thompson, the candidate Blitzer- called " charismatic " and Reaganesque " already a flop , but don't just except the fall of the republican party , there are lot of blood sucking vampires that need to be charged with treason and war crimes, bush; Cheney and the rest of cabal .
Jim @ 8:
So did Tweetie - "Aqua Velva! . . . cigars!" - makes you wonder where they're sniffing.
How're you going to promote your newest crappy candidate though - when he also can't speak for shit, and looks almost as bad as Nosferatu look-alike Giulia?
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Fred Thompson is to President as Bill Cosby is to Doctor.
I thought Fred Thompson was so tuff that he didn't need campaign contributions. He'd just grab the presidency and 'rassle it to the floor with his bare hands.
Mr. NeoCon @ 21:
He can't serve as president 3 terms in a row!
He is nothing but a LOBBYIST/prostitute. Be sure to mention that to everyone who thinks he's anything more than that. Poor poor Republicans seeking daddy again.....
Liberal AND Proud @ 47:
Armed the Iranians and Iraqis. Those weapons are killing our troops now.
Great first family. Son is 8 years older then the wife. Daughter is 6 years older then the wife.
Family values.
i saw one of those purity ball at youtube, and i could of swear, i saw freddie and his wife, jeri at the ball.
The big-money Repugs took a long look at MRS. Thompson and asked themselves that most Nixonian question: How will it play in Peoria?
Maybe some reruns of Deputy Dawg on the Cartoon Network will spark interest in ole Basset Hound Face.
This is a "D" actor, who is obviously lazy and acts a lot older than McCain. I don't know if Jeri can fix it up for him.
Somebody should deliver a life a life preserver to his campaign HQ. That would be HI-laious...
*runs for it*
The extreme Right wingers won't be satified until they see a Jeb/Newt ticket.
Or
a Cheney/ Falwell ticket.
Ticket to Hell?
If the GOP would just ask Cheney to find a Presidential candidate, he could look around and nominate himself as the only one he knows qualified. Like he did when he found that he was the only one qualified to be VP for Bush. When he was given that challenge to find some one for VP back then......................
Look I don't blame the far righties for being unhappy with their choices. I look at their GOP candidates and become disgusted as well. But then Bus/Cheney makes me feel that way as well........
Fredrick of Hollywood should have stayed with Law/Order. He is so lost in the race he seems like an old man trying to understand what happen in the past hundred years. Yes he has a trophy wife to show off but that's it. Everything that comes out his mouth is stupid and out dated about 60 years. He only remembers that he was the mole for Richard Nixon in the Water Gate Scandal. Yes he took secret classified information to Nixon so Nixon could lie his way out of getting impeached. Fred is a real piece of work in the GOP. He played a lawyer for Justice on TV while saying Libby should never be charged for Obstruction of Justice or lying under oath. Now he is saying he would stay in Iraq and bomb Iran. Our troops are dying everyday the Iraq people want us out and the Iraq Government is just as corrupt as the White House. Fred needs a Hollywood script writer to help him make since.
Die Hard Fred. :D
Looks like he'll be leasing the LITTLE RED TRUCK instead of purchasing it.
Enough with this freaking dirty old man, I mean enough!
jay severin has a small pen1s @ 67:
Just like Shrubs cows and horses. Leased for the reporters as a photo op.
I thought this pig had already announced what ever the hell he plans to do. I know what most well thinking Americans are going to do and that is not vote for this idiot.
Robt @ 64:
It must be - Falwell's already there, and Cheney's on the staff.
Still, if the neocons wish to continue their junta, Thompson is just the kind of puppet that they like. An empty-headed moron who can pretend to be presidential. I'm sure Freddy would be good at taking orders. Whoever they want to install will somehow have all the money that is needed to carry out the
charadecampaign.Thompson? --- uh NO!
But the important thing is, does Michelle Grimalken support him?
Fred Thompson is to President as Bill Cosby is to Doctor.
Maybe so, but I would see Cosby for advice about my health before I'd vote for Thompson!
I'd rather vote for Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel.
I have big problems with all republicans, but Thompson-the-basset-hound really riles me. I wouldn't vote for him if he were the only candidate running. I hope that's clear.
Thompson's fund raising is underwelming??? Well, I can't say I'm disappointed or too surprised.. I ain't no rightie so I can't really figure out what the attraction is.. I know tweety like the way he smells or something weird like that but that shit don't work for me... To be honest, as a candidate, he's pretty underwhelming as far as I can tell... He wouldn't be any more presidential as a democrat either... Underwhelming.... Yea, pretty much that... All the way around... Go back to your acting gig Freddy, things will work out better for you in the long run... You stick with this shit, and you'll just end up pissing away your acting career... And you ain't 'all that' as an actor anyway dude...JD
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