Thompson backers second-guessing their man
By Steve Benen Monday Nov 19, 2007 8:22amThere was a point a few months ago in which the anticipation in Republican circles about Fred Thompson’s candidacy was palpable. The GOP’s three most-competitive candidates — Romney, Giuliani, and McCain — each caused consternation, for one reason or another, among conservatives, and Thompson was going to be the guy on the white horse who would save the day.
Fairly quickly, 21 congressional Republicans endorsed the former senator, which is nearly as many endorsements as McCain and Giuliani. But that was the late-summer. Now, even some of Thompson’s backers are wondering whether they’ve bet on the wrong horse.
Several House Republicans who endorsed Fred Thompson for president now say that they are frustrated with what they view as an apathetic campaign, and at least one regrets having committed to the former Tennessee senator.
“I think he’s kind of done a belly flop,” said an estranged Thompson backer who indicated he will not pull his public support before the “Super Tuesday” primaries. “We’ll just wait till after Feb. 5 because I think he’s going to get beat.”
Another GOP lawmaker said, “I’ve kind of pulled back. I’m not not supporting him, but I’m not doing anything.” With six weeks to go before the first contest, that’s not quite the enthusiasm a presidential hopeful wants to hear.
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Take a Republican, con-servative, good ol boy phrase to summarize the GOP Field of 'candidates' in '08.....
"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken $hit"
hey,,,,when you're an old man and have a hottie for a spouse...whadda thinks is gonna happen...tough keeping up with the babe........
I'm guessin that the Law&Order franchise is ready to dump this chump too.
Sadly for Cornpone Fred, he fell off that horse and done got run over by a red Ford pickup.
This is good news for the Democratic party in my opinion.
Romney, Giuliani and McCain have all fallen on their swords repeatedly.
Thompson worried me.
With a Democrat in office and with the republicans having more Senate seats up for grabs in '08, the Dems look like they will have a chance at a bigger and better chance to actually make some changes for the better.
It's up to us to ensure that they do so by making sure we hold them to their word and keep them accountable.
Yep, he landed like a wet bag of horse shit.
If the dude is too lazy to even work for himself, what the hell does he offer our country?
All the GOP are like Turds circling the Bowl, I can't wait until the flush is Complete. We're closer, Fran Townsend went down the bowl the other day. Now if we could just get rid of the two biggest turds of all.
"I love the smell of excreted body waste in the morning........it reminds me of............victory"
Looks like ol' Fred had better call Dick Wolf to see if the role of the Carpetbagging DA has been filled before he's really out of a job.
Tim in Japan @ 6:
"A" Democrat in office probably will not change things very much. Hillary is ready to invade Iran. Obama is ready to go into other countries after Al Qeda regaurdless of the consequences.
Need Health Care? Peace? A real policy towards Climate Chaos?
Vote Kucinich!
Lurch never stood a chance anyway..........gotta keep an eye on McCain....
Have they bet on the wrong horse?
Well, let's see, it's raining, 'Fred the Ham' is floundering about on the track near the fourth pole, both hind legs broken, the other horses are back in the paddocks, and 'Fred the Ham' is about to be run over by the track grooming machine.
I'd say he's a long shot.
What Conservatives fail to realize is that every Republican candidate is the wrong horse...I'm not trying to say the Democrats are perfect...far from it, but really what do you have to choose from on the Republican side? If a Mormon gets the nomination then the Evangelical bigots will stay home on election day...if Giuliani gets the nomination I'm guessing quite a few Republican voters will stay home on election day...if McCain gets the....oh shit...who am I kidding with that one. I figure Ron Paul will get the nomination just because not enough people can stand any one of the front runners, but then in the next year people will find out what Ron Paul is really about and he won't get many votes either. Maybe we can have a Ron Paul / Ross Perot ticket just to watch the concervo-bots on cable news have a simultaneous meltdown and then finally we can say we're getting something out of Cable News!
It seems the knighted Sir Guiliani will be the preordained front runner for the Repugs. He's some kind of made man.
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 14:
Ross Perot would make Fred look younger. He will be 78 in June.
erin @ 15:
LOL!
Some sort?
Preacher Boob (13) It's too early in the morning to make me laugh that much. That was a funny as hell comment. :lol:
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mark my words..McCain will get the nomination.the repugs will forget all about his indiscretions,immigration and torture and the war in general.He is ignoring Iowa and focusing on New Hampshire...he did that last time and it worked until he threatened shrub and Rove...no....I think he was selected a long time ago.
Preacher Boob @ 13:
Great Analogy! Are you up in Saratoga?
Fred will have to be shot. He's not as valuable as Barbarra
The Dessicated Corpse of Fred Thompson has turned out to be a major disappointment to the Taliban Wing of the GOP, a sort of hideous albatross that they purposely hung around their necks in hope that such a folksy, socially conservative, Aqua Velva-smelling zombie might be the Second Coming of Reagan.
Maybe they should have latched their hopes to another aging B-list actor. I don't know who - Fred MacMurray? No, he's dead. Wilford Brimley, maybe? He'd at least make sure we all ate our oatmeal in the mornings ...
xoites defends Constitution @ 17:
LOL..well let me restate that: he is a made man. Tapped on the back by more than one criminal network, Pat Robertson being the latest smarmy mask of evil to help bring him into the fold.
When are the elections again?
What a nice MSM distraction from the crap happening today.
erin @ 23:
It would be fun to name the Third Party each candidate would found if they decided to opt out of the Republican/Democratic format. Rudy would definitely start the Mafia Party.
Ok, maybe the Transvestite Mafia Party...
That would put Fred in the Too Old To Party.
pissed off patricia @ 18:
Happy to have helped start your day. To paraphrase the writer 'William the Great',
'All the world's a cage', and if we inmates don't laugh, we'll bleed to death in the bars.
pissed off patricia @ 7:
this man would make an ecellent president ! in the mold of chickenshit bush, he would most likely as bush has done spend most of his first term stay on vacation on some piece of shit chicken ranch, after all its the corporations who really run the whitehouse!
This maybe a little off topic, but is it true that the Dem Candidates won't be on the Florida ballot for the Presidential Preference Primary because Florida is still planning on running the primary on Jan. 29th or did the Gov move it back to the 5th of Feb.? Anyone know? POP?
But he's so sexy!
IgnoranceIsNotBliss, I wish I could answer your question. This thing is so fu*king confusing that most of us down here have no freakin' idea what's going on. Last I heard, I believe you are correct but hell, no one knows for sure except those screwing around with our vote.
the Jack Bauer is real crowd got excited about a Dick Wolf creation
Fred is equally sexy to the lumps I removed from my cat's litter box this morning. I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine Fred Thompson even fu*king touching me.
Yikes, I almost gagged just typing that.
Just pull the cobwebs off him, he'll be fine.
I thought that Fred Thompson was unmistakably, undefeatably TALL. And that he had a deep, commanding actor's voice and with it he could bellow shrill little Hillary off her stubby legs during the debates.
Of course, that was back when Hillary Was Inevitable. As Inevitable As Thompson. Or Giuliani.
What's happening anyway? The MSM's entire narrative for this election's all fucked up. Is it because the script writers are on strike?
Maybe all that 'gravitas' is weighing him down.
What a pity.
slippytoad @ 36:
I think it has something to with tubes.
Nov. 20, 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. All these 'double guantanamo' types should think about that.
Poor Fred can't even think of a thing to say on behalf of his own platform. Desperation and stupidity in the repug party is all he can rely on. In his case, it appears that they are running low on that, too.
Don't forget, it wasn't just Republican circles. It was every cable "news" talk show. Chris Matthews was oh so excited to have a Daddy figure in the race.
What’s happening anyway? The MSM’s entire narrative for this election’s all fucked up. Is it because the script writers are on strike?
It's because political writers' predictions before the elections actually take place are worth as much as sportswriters' predictions before the games are played.
Thompson is one scary A$$TARD. I saw a truck the other day in Nebraska with a "Fred 08" sticker on it. Almost made me sick.
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MattMcD @ 40:
Ughh gotta love Matthews and his man-crushes. That, taken with the GOP Senators who went crazy giddy at Thompon's announcement (like fidgeting schoolchildren right before recess) just goes to show you how stomach-churningly out-of-touch these clueless motherfuckers really are.
How fucking clueless are these people that they looked at that human funeral dirge and thought: "He's EXACTLY what America needs!"??
Jesus Christ at least Reagan had charisma....
On the Stephanie Miller radio show whenever they discuss Fred Thompson they finish by playing a Forrest Gump quote saying " I'm tired. I think I'll go home now." It's hilarious!
Thompson has like... zero desire or energy to even put the slightest amount of effort into his "campaign".
I urge crooks and liars not to bump this post to the next page in a few days.
Fred Thompson will still only be half-way through reading it.
The reason Fred Thompson 'pulled back', is because his jockey jumped off coming down the stretch, when they were 75 lengths behind the next-slowest horse, kicked Fred right where his balls would have been if he hadn't been gelded, then spit in his eye as he ran past Fred to the finish line.
Has anyone woke Fred and told him yet?
I guess the Aqua Velva wore off?
Has anyone told Tweety? He's going to be heartbroken.
Fred is, after all, just so...TALL?
Well, more and more, it's Mano y Mano, between the Flip-Flopping Mormon who likes to abuse his dog while his 5 sons are ducking service in the greatest war in history, and a part-time transvestite three-time divorcee Roman Catholic who is just peachy with gay marriage!
Man, the Southern Evangelical crowd must just BE LOVING THIS!
Fred Thompson is a joke.
I Could've been a contender....I Could've been SOMEBODY!.....................thud.
hehehehehe....so much for lurch.
"The GOP’s three most-competitive candidates — Romney, Giuliani, and McCain — each caused consternation, for one reason or another, among conservatives, and Thompson was going to be the guy on the white horse who would save the day."
There was an omission in the quote above from the original diary. It should have read:
"The GOP’s three most-competitive candidates — Romney, Giuliani, and McCain — each caused consternation, for one reason or another, among conservatives, and Thompson was going to be the WHITE guy on the white horse who would save the day."
Just shows you how stupid the Republicans are. Fred would sleep through his presidency.
"The economy is rosie" duh That comment probably finished him.
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