You gotta love Fred, here he is talking about his method of dealing with earmarks and activist judges (you know, those who would ensure the Constitution really was a “living, breathing document”)
Man: (Pause) I’m looking for a tall man who will stand tall for America. (Pause.) Who will cut the ears off of earmarks! (Pause.) Stop dead illegal immigration! (Pause.) And pull the teeth of activist judges…
Thompson: Yep.
Man: … who take your house to build 7-Eleven! (Pause, then louder) And I want to know if you’ve got a Jim Bowie knife and a good strong pair (pause) of Channellock pliers! (Laughter, even more applause, calls of “That’s right!” and “Hear, hear!”)
Something tells me Mitt Romney doesn’t field a whole lot of questions like that.Thompson, for his part, answered with Southern-fried aplomb. “Did you ever see the movie ‘Walking Tall’?” he said, referring to the 1973 action flick about Buford Pusser, a Tennessee sheriff who single-handedly rid his town of crime and corruption. “You know the ax handle that old Buford used to carry? I got me one of them. I knew Buford Pusser. His daughter gave me one of those ax handles and I still got it. I thought about it many, many times. There’s a lot you can do with that.”
As SeeDubya noted, Sheriff Pusser was also not a favorite of the establishment. Just as Fred seems to be with the likes of Hugh Hewitt and the always faithful FredHater Allahpundit. They say he has no chance of winning so don’t waste your vote. They say a vote for this guy lets this guy win and we all don’t want that.
So in effect they want those who support Fred, in the single most important state for their candidate to win, to vote for another candidate because Romney is better then McCain? Are you kidding me? A flip-flopper or a Amnesty supporter. They are both bad choices for our party and I will not buy into this mania, and mania it is. Myself, I will vote FOR a candidate, not AGAINST one.
My favorite comment left at Hot Air in some time:
I can see some people here advocate abandoning conservative principles to vote for the prettiest pony.
Well you asked the question, here is my answer.
F*%k No! Eat a bag of sh*t, since when do we, as conservatives, endorse the American Idol style of picking a candidate.
One has nice hair. He seems nice. He promised me a new water heater for my house. I will vote for him even though he flips and flops depending on the crowd in front of him.
The other tells jokes and is soooo Christ like even though he lives just on the outskirts of the truth. What a nice boy.
This guy is a war hero, I guess I can conveniently forget he never misses a chance to dog his own party. Lets vote for him.
Wasn’t there a guy from New York running too? I should vote for him, he gets the NE mindset.
What!! He refused to put on a fire hat!! That rat bastard I will never vote for him, besides he got in too late! Oh nevermind he espouses core conservative principles, the media tells me I should hate him anyways.
The GOP is truly pathetic.
If you live in South Carolina go out and vote FOR the candidate you want to be the next President. I don’t care who it is (but hope it’s Fred), don’t waste your vote as a tactic AGAINST a candidate.
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I wondering how much credibility the pollsters will have when Fred wins South Carolina?
From Rasmussen two days ago:
“The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of South Carolina’s Republican Presidential Primary shows that John McCain and Mike Huckabee are tied at 24%. In a race that has already seen four different candidates with the lead, much could still change in the coming days–7% of voters have yet to make up their mind, 10% say there’s a good chance they could change their mind, and another 24% might change their mind.”
I sure like these numbers of still “undecided voters”. And Fred was on a surge when this was posted.
VOTE FOR FRED
I applaud that poster, he said what a whole lot of us think. I just hope that there are enough of us to make up for the media brainwashing.
I thought Thompson would have been a great candidate but he is viewed as “not wanting” to be president.
He hasn’t really campaigned all that hard (from what i’ve seen), he hasn’t been gaining too much press as of late (like he was in July), his primary results are poor…
When is he going to pull out the big guns if he is into this race?
He hasn’t campaigned all that hard?
Are you kidding me?
Check the Fred Thompson category on this blog and check out all the campaigning he has been doing.
Don’t just watch the alphabet channels to get your news….much more out there then that.
Actually, I don’t watch the alphabet channels all that much… I say that from the sites I had been surfing over the last several months.
But, you’ve proven a great point even if you didn’t intend to. I’m an individual who obtains my perspective from a number of sources and if I don’t think Thompson is campaigning hard just think what the general public sees.
If you think Fred hasn’t been campaigning hard then you have been misinformed, probably from the sites you chose to get your facts from. Have you ever even read Fred08.com to see his ad buys, his non-stop campaigning and 17 minute video up on the web laying out his policy beliefs?
The general public has gotten this urban myth embedded into their brains from the alphabet channels. Those who do visit multiple sources understand the man has been campaigning hard for months now. Hell, just look at all those bloggers who have endorsed him.
Gentlemen, and ladies,the alphabet media is still our highest hurdle. Too many people are still frightened by their stories or so disheartened that they stay home or vote for, a compromise.
@ Curt
First off, I want to be clear on something – I am not attacking Thompson. I like what he has to say, and I like what he stands for. I think he would be a great president.
From what I’ve seen, what I’ve read, do I think he’s run the best campaign, no – not at all. He hasn’t gotten the press the needs and have made poorly worded comments at the wrong time.
My personal opinion aside, the fact of the matter is that he has a perception problem. I’m sorry to say it that way, but it’s true.
The VAST majority of people I speak with look at him as disengaged and uninterested.
As jainphx stated, the media is the the hurdle to overcome. Until Thompson can get that out of the way the general voting public won’t see it any different. And now that he came in 3rd in SC his chances have gotten even smaller.
Unfortunately, the blog world isn’t picking the president. So, it really doesn’t matter how many people in the blogosphere endorse him – it’s about the public at large.
Fred has said he will be reviewing his efforts as he visits his mother (who is in the hospital?)
I don’t know how much money he has left and whether a 3rd place finish with Mittens a very close 4th is enough to get him enough money to compete in Florida.
Huckabee may have to reassess his efforts too. he has promised to go to Florida, but he spent a LOT of money in SC and couldn’t win even with all those evangelicals.
At some point this race has to narrow and we will have to decide whether to support candidates who can compete against the less desireable candidates like McCain.
I am praying that a miracle takes place here and Fred stays in the race. He will take Texas and many other Southern States.