...For not entering the presidential race three friggin' years before the elections happen? Other candidates are saying he's entering too late, but I say thank God there's someone out there who doesn't feel obligated to start cluttering up TV airspace with attack ads or major intersections with loud obnoxious signs YEARS before anyone cares.
2007-08-27 06:32:21 · 9 answers · asked by Neerdowellian 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Damn good point...you get todays gold star...will the libs even agree with this?? lol
2007-08-27 06:49:36 · answer #1 · answered by Steelhead 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an Independent and I don't quite see it the way you do. What is important is the reason WHY he has waited so long, not just that he has waited so long. The race started early because states moved up their primaries and this country is so tired of Bush and this war that they look forward with eagerness to the next Administration. It is going to be a long haul, and yep, it's going to get tiresome and aggravating.
But from what I know of Thompson it isn't some higher sense of propriety that has made him wait so long. He only received half of the campaign funds for his exploratory committee that he himself predicted. He has staffers quitting right and left because his wife is a bytch on wheels and they refuse to work with her any longer. He doesn't want to answer the questions that the media wants to ask him. He keeps talking about running a "different" kind of campaign. Yep, he wants it to be different all right - so different that he doesn't have to answer pointed questions about his past. I actually find that more arrogant than anything else. He seems to be a very lazy man on top of that, and one who just doesn't want to put all his energy into campaigning. What will that lack of get up and go mean to us if he becomes President?
I agree with you, this election has started too early, but it's here and we'll deal with it. I'm waiting for Thompson to come out and change my mind about the perceptions he has given so many of us. Will he do that? Or will he continue to dodge and hide?
2007-08-27 13:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Still a good 15 months out, and Thompson is tipping his hand!
It is nauseating to behold candidates shirking their "jobs" in the Senate three years away from the election, poor mouthing all the president's detractors.
At least the BoB (Corncob) "Dole-ster" quit the Senate like a man and trashed all his time running for President And he was an honest-to-God war hero who didn't return to hook up with Jane Fonda and call the troops "akin to Atila the Hun" in their atrocities. Many was the time, Dole probably wished his injuries were a bad "fanny rash" from exploding rice supplies and a curled metal fragment slightly bleeding from one arm.
But everybody knew Dole was the Big Go along and get along who got kicked one time too many in the Senate.
Poor Dole even spotted Newt Gingrich $300,000 on debt so he could pay his "lynch trial fine" and be out $300,000 to keep working.
The present crew has no idea how to work in the Senate AND run for President so they just run for president and draw salaries for breathing.
Ron Paul is honest and opinionated with much to say...Fred Thompson is no longer a Senator...a story in and of itself.
2007-08-27 13:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by acct10132002 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I give him some credit, but I think your off base here.
Fred likes to work an easy schedule...9am to 3:30 pm (based on presence in Senate and Law and Order work schedule). That won't fly in a Presidential election where the candidates are working from 5am to 7pm daily.
Personally, I don't think that Fred has the stamina for the campaign. Not to mention that he is far short of the $5 million he needed by Sept.
But we'll see how this pans out......
2007-08-27 13:42:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No,for one of 2 reasons:
1. Fred is a greedy crook, if he announced he were running for President, then the L & O episodes he's in couldbn't be shown and he couldn't get royalties.
OR IT IS POSSIBLE THAT:
2. Fred will shortly be dead, he looks like he has about 6 onths left to live from recent photos. So why would he want the aggravation of running fro President?
2007-08-27 13:45:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do I do I do. The only thing that makes me mad at him is the fact I really like him on Law and Order. Oh well, I guess they will find another DA.
2007-08-27 13:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He's also the most qualified of any of the candidate's. He's building up his war chest to I might add. He'll need it to fight off the Clintoon smear machine....
2007-08-27 13:39:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, He is looking better and better to me.
2007-08-27 13:39:24 · answer #8 · answered by mamadixie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I sure do.
2007-08-27 13:40:51 · answer #9 · answered by Still Beautifully Conservative 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋