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Bill Dupray at The Patriot Room

Big league politics requires certain skills beyond just having good ideas, and being a politician isn't the only way to make a valuable contribution to the political process. Thompson is a very smart guy who just isn't a very good politician, so I'm glad to see him getting back into the fray by other means. He's just doing it, without getting sidetracked with a bunch of coulda' woulda' shoulda'.

He didn't pander and told people the truth. The biggest problem with that is the people said that's what they wanted and discovered after the fact that they'd rather have the pretty speeches and pandering.

Had those same people admitted that from the get go, I doubt Fred would have gotten into the race.

He's a good man and a smart man. People would do well to listen to him, even if it isn't all the fluff and stuff they want to hear.

http://hillbillypolitics.com

Amen -- Fred was on Fox news this morning.

He called Obama naive at least twice.

Give him hell Fred.

He also made the point that McCain is on the right side on the issues that are crucial to the survival of the United States. He is right related to national security. Trashing the economy with the green nonsense and letting the illegal aliens break the rules -- well Obama would give us worse than McCain on those issues.

Fred speaks truth and I am not going to get the perfect candidate this year - -the difference is between the most liberal/socialist/NAIVE/Marxist -- Obama or a candidate I agree with part of the time.

Forever a Fred(heart)head

M Penny

...to that Fred Fox and Friends appearance: Fred on F&F

He explains in simple terms why even though we don't agree on McCain, he's our best hope for the future.

Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.

Socialism doesn't work. It looks nice on paper, but it's been tried and it's failed miserably every time (usually accompanied by widespread death and suffering).
Proud member of the V.R.W.C.

That was a very good interview. It gives some credibility to the idea that he could be more powerful now that he is no longer a candidate. One thing the party and this administration has always lacked is an articulate spokesman who is more than just a mouthpiece spouting talking points. Rush Limbaugh is neither one, because he's more of a spokesman for Conservatism in general. Tony Snow never really got a chance.

I must qualify my comment by adding that I didn't think this first column was particularly noteworthy, other than that it was the first one.

Democrats: Abandoning Allies, One Country at a Time.

...RNC Chairman. That's where he's best...in the battlefield of ideas.

Night Twister
Veterans For McCain

That, or one of many other positions of leadership, would be awesome.

Recruiting and supporting conservative candidates - even, as needed, primary opponents to the Don Youngs and Linc Chafees of the party.

Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO

must live in the land of what is and not in the land of what could or should have been.. . ::sigh

I'll drink it :)

lesterblog.blogspot.com

Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO

Now if I could just get some consolation from the female Fredheads who assured me I'd be appreciated for having Fred's physical size and something like his intellect. I guess we never talked about the importance of also having Fred's wealth as a necessary factor.

lesterblog.blogspot.com

It does weird things to the lady folk.

This is an insulting and misogynist comment that reduces the support of Fred Thompson by the female gender to being based upon stereotypes of masculine attributes instead of the conservative principles FDT represents.

Now I could make some comment that just because men(?) such as Lester are too often vertically challenged when it comes to thinking, please do not become confused and transfer that shortcoming to all females.

M Penny

Though I think he was slightly jesting :-)

More Political Correctness run amok. Nothing wrong with Simpson316's remark/jest as seen from here...

Steve in Tennessee
http://sdo1.blogspot.com/

I cannot be offended unless I allow myself to be offended....and by the way there was nothing "attractive" about Fred he was just all man about conservatism...that is SEXY!!!

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

I replied to lester not simpson. I was not offended by simpson's remark. Lester is the offending poster.

M Penny

Not my fault if you don't.

lesterblog.blogspot.com

Though I fail to see what was wrong with that one, either... Must be my thick male skull.

Steve in Tennessee
http://sdo1.blogspot.com/

a few months back and, frankly, I prefer women who listen, comprehend and consider what they read and hear.

lesterblog.blogspot.com

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

COVERED WITH BEES

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire

With chocolate swirls!

Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO

I love it, Bird.

Democrats: Abandoning Allies, One Country at a Time.

"I might've voted and given money to Fred if..."

He showed that he wanted the job.
He ran a better campaign.
He had a better sound system.

and of course, my favorite:

More people were voting for him and giving him money.

Night Twister
Veterans For McCain

Excellent points.

I have thought that perhaps he did make a tactical mistake regarding his timing as he entered the race. He needed to be in those early debates. Who knows? Maybe he would have eclipsed the Huckster, since there probably wouldn't have been room for two folksy Southerners. The way things broke, Huckabee got a significant head start and he pushed Fred out at the far turn.

Speaking of the Huckster, would anybody be saying any of this stuff if he were the one who's going to write a column on Town Hall? I don't think so.

Democrats: Abandoning Allies, One Country at a Time.

We need to find the next generation's conservative leaders and groom them by putting them in city councils and state legislatures. We need them to establish themselves with a record to run on. We also need to teach them how to get their message across not only by traditional means but by non-traditional means. Look at the effect that the internet is having on the current election. Obama's team got the jump on everyone with that using the social networking sites as well as youtube! What's going to be next big thing??

Dreams waste time. Action begets change. We need to start working for change that conservatives can believe in.

Newt has indeed been marginalizing himself lately. He has fallen into a tendency to wander across the aisle. We really don't need two leaders like that. Maybe Fred just needs to take Newt for a long walk around the farm while he points out the facts of Conservative survival. Then they'd both be on point.

Democrats: Abandoning Allies, One Country at a Time.

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