Fred isn’t dead yet. Fred’s best days were when he wasn’t a candidate. Well guess what? He’s not a candidate again. Expect Fred’s numbers to go up and he’ll beat the Democrat from Hope, the Mormon from Boston and the Grumpy guy from where-ever McCain is from.
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Toga Party! Toga ! Toga!
New candidate that we should all consider supporting
http://www.paulsen.com/pat/
Don’t let the fact he’s dead keep you from supporting him!!!
I’m digging Erick’s post about Tax Hike Mike over at Red State.
kudos to Erick.
I never knew Fred was in the race to begin with…
Could I buy 10,0000 marbles please?
you tell em Chris!!!!
<—–runs to the fall-out shelter…….
I have a theory that Fred got in just to make his good friend John McCain seem younger and uh…awake. It apparently worked.
“Farris” must be German for ‘don’t say die’.
The Fred Thompson campaign has been mishandled from Announcement Day 1. It’s been nothing but a total failure of the candidate and the campaign.
I was in Charleston, SC for their Primary (I go there about once every 2 weeks, grew up partially there). The TV ads STUNK. The ‘differentiation’ message stunk. The whole thing stunk — except for the VOTERS who understood WHY we needed a candidate like this. No wonder the campaign only took 16% of the vote.
Icarus, I think the 10,000 marbles were already purchased when Fred announced…
…On Election Day for SC, the Thompson campaign had, as it’s schedule listed on its’ website, “walk around Greenville”. No kidding! WHAT was that?
Then they listed a visit to the local newspaper in Spartenburg, and other nonsense. It may be a great paper…but not a lot of publishing was going to happen at midday on the day of the election.
There were no election day rallies. There were no major media events (other than Glenn Beck). This was a hodgepodge of how NOT to close a campaign.
And then on Election night? The Election Night Party was entitled ” The Post Election Party”…. really. Not a Victory Party — even though this was the Do-Or-Die primary.
You get the picture.
This was the worst-run campaigns since Bush 92. Our liberal friend, Chris is Hardcore, is smiling tonight somewhere in Decatur. I, on the other hand, frown at the Taco Mac in Duluth.
I am a bit disappointed in the demise of the the Fred! campaign.
It seemed to never achieve ramming speed, and now is just as dead as Fawn Leibowitz.
Denial isn’t a river in Egypt here!
This is great.. the far-right nuts in Georgia too hard-headed to admit their favorite idiot ran a bad campaign and was ignored by mainstream Republicans.
You HAVE to be a horrible candidate to be a conservative and be so overwhelmingly ignored. But that doesn’t matter to Georgia! Go Fred!
Keep voting for the loser while we laugh.
Fred Thompson will go on to play a strong role in a McCain administration… Mark my words!
Wow, that is what I will do tonight. Creepy!
If Fred’s name is still on the Georgia ballot on February 5, I just still may vote for him.
Bill, what possible sane reason do you have for casting a vote for someone who’s dropped out?
God, I love Georgia!!!
Because thinking about the other possible candidates is too mind-numbing to decide right now.
Hell, if Ronald Reagan’s name was on the ballot on February 5, I’d vote for him!
I agree with Bill, vote for Ron on Feb. 5th.
Rudy’s campaign may be worse then Fred’s.
His cost per vote is the worst of any candidate in either party. He was leading national polls before the primaries. Meanwhile McCain and Romney have proven they can win, and Rudy’s still a big question mark. He pretends he didn’t have over 100 events in NH and spend more than 40 days there. Ron Paul is kicking his butt. Ouch! Apparently voters are not enamored with his New York superiority complex.
Totally clueless dumb people running political campaigns? Shocking isn’t it?
is that a fred pin…
ON YOUR UNIFORRMMM…
I continue to hear about the Old Guard of the Republican Party. They want this or they don’t want that – Gosh, if they know so much, why are we in such a mess? It seems to me that we need a New Guard, one that will appreciate and support the one’s who have won past elections for us!
I am going to hold onto my Fred bumper sticker, though.
Grits,
In order to legitimately be known as a member of the “New Guard,” you need to be 12 years old. Otherwise, you’re a member of the Old Guard.
Now the question is when Paul will drop out. Will he run as a libertarian? It would be the end of any prospects for a GOP victory, but that is becoming more and more likely by the day.
Am I the only one who has picked up on the glaring historical inaccuracy in Chris’s post?
The GERMANS never bombed Pearl Harbor.
See “Japan” for more information on the subject.
It would be the end of any prospects for a GOP victory
Which is one of the primary reasons I hope he does run third party or independent.
The GOP has done nothing but sacrifice its values at the altar of big-government for the past 7 (going on
years. When you worship a false idol, you pay the price. I hope this election is judgement day for the GOP.
Like my esteemed colleague, IndyInjun, I think the GOP needs to die and be reborn before it will ever be relevant again.
A Huckabee nomination coupled with a Ron Paul third-party run would get the GOP about 30% of the popular vote. Bring it on!
WTF is that Smiley Face doing on m post?
That should have been the number 8 with an end quotation mark, as such
Oh. I hate f*cking emoticons.
Jace: It’s an “Animal House” reference. If you haven’t seen the classics, you shouldn’t be on this blog!
Now drop and give me 20!
excuse me. An end )
I’ve never seen Animal House.
Seriously, I’m way behind on my “Classics”. Do you realize I didn’t even see “The Godfather” until a month ago?
Oh, and being as it is a quote from a movie, I apologize to Chris.
Jace…growing-up, did you have to hand-crank your Dad’s motor car to get it started?
Of all the wacked-out things I’ve said on here, this is going to be the one that I never live down.
You never had a chance to see the movie during your seven years of college?
Not seen Animal House? You have lived a secluded life…
You need to broaden your education…
Here you go, Jace.
http://videoholicsanonymous.blogspot.com/2007/04/was-it-over-when-germans-bombed-pearl.html
Jace, you are now on double secret probation…
Like my esteemed colleague, IndyInjun, I think the GOP needs to die and be reborn before it will ever be relevant again.
If the GOP dies now, we get a socialist state from the democrats, which might even become a member of the EU. How would a reborn party fix that after the fact?
How about we find ways to speak up even louder and change things within the party we have? The ‘big tent’ idea is okay if people understand and embrace the ideology that built the tent. Instead, FDR ideology has been brought in and held on to. The blogosphere is changing information flow and will most likely change drastically what the People hear and see over the next decade.
We can’t just hand power over to those who openly oppose what built this Nation and then come back later to put things back in place. The broken pieces will be too small to ever put back together.
jsm,
We’re not going to get a “socialist state”. That’s just bullshit alarmist rhetoric aimed at frightening the “base” into action. We’ll get policies that trend toward socialism, yes. But the U.S. isn’t about to descend into outright socialism. Just like it didn’t descend into outright fascism under Bush.
The Democrats have proven that they are incapable of getting anything passed in the Senate or House. As long as your “conservatives” in the Senate hold the line. Nothing good or bad is going to happen.
The GOP needs to die. The quicker the better.
Jace, if we elect a democrat president and maintain democrats in both houses of the Legislature, we will be on our way to socialized medicine quickly. All these gov’t programs are never going to end. We can’t afford to add more.
“All these gov’t programs are never going to end.”
You know, if that is your main concern, electing Republicans won’t do much to change the size and scope of the government. If recent years are anything to go by.
Who are you trying to convince?
You GOPers have no one but yourselves to blame. You are the ones who enabled these false “conservatives” for the past two decades. Don’t come crying to me when the Hildabeast pisses in your cornflakes.
Jace,
Other movies you should see, so you’ll understand us “old” folks:
Stripes
The Blues Brothers
Airplane
The Jerk
Caddy Shack
Another movie to understand where “old” folks come from is “Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory”.
Icarus…that is a priceless list…
Pooooor Jace….
I refer to those as “the classics”.
I haven’t been able to find a nickelodeon in years.
Those were the real days of cinema.
“We can’t just hand power over to those who openly oppose what built this Nation….”
JSM, why does this sound suspiciously like a Christian Nationalism argument? The Founding Fathers were DEISTS.
And until your party nominates a quality candidate and kicks out all the damn perverts, I’m voting for those who, according to you, “openly oppose what built this Nation.” Get used to it, I’m sure as hell not the only one.
Soul,
Hmm…exactly how do you propose we go about identifying all of the “perverts” in the GOP?
Help us along here by defining what constitutes a “pervert” in your left-wing mind…and then demonstrate for us by example how YOUR party has gone about kicking them out of YOUR party?
Lead us by example, O’ Great Wise Leader of the Left…
oooh, I LOVE pissing off a conservative!
Bill, how about child molesters and guys hitting on other guys in bathroom stalls? Try starting with this list of sexual deviants in the GOP?
Democrats aren’t angels, clearly, but they don’t go around preaching “family values.” Your party has a really pathetic record of living up to those, you know. In fact, aren’t we overdue for another Republican to be revealed as a freak of some sort? It’s been–what, a month now?
We (at least I) don’t define “pervert” differently, much as you probably would love to think so–but somehow there are fewer cases of hypocritical Bible-wavers in the Democratic party. Why is that, do you think?
Soul,
Here’s the thing about you libbies: You are the turds of society who cry and moan and whine about all the people LOCKED-UP IN JAIL for these types of crimes.
I’ll bet you’ve participated in more than one candlelight vigil crying over some serial murderer who was being put to death.
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