Fred Thompson Watch: Thompson Takes Bites Out of Rudy and Mitt

The New York Sun: Thompson Takes Bites Out of Giuliani, Romney.

The latest USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted Friday through Sunday, on the presidential race is out, and it’s a humdinger. It’s hard to say what the headline even is. Here are a few tries, though:

* Romney’s support drops to within the margin of error of not existing (that’s 3% support in a poll where the margin of error is 3%).

* Giuliani’s support drops 13 percentage points since the last USA Today/ Gallup poll, March 2-4 (that’s gotta hurt).

* Fred Thompson (not running, by the way) is now the No. 3 in the GOP field, at 12%.
Emphasis Cox & Forkum

CBS News: Possible Fred Thompson Candidacy Animates Conservatives.

The possibility that former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee might run for president has animated many conservative leaders who are unhappy with the GOP choices that exist now.They consider Thompson a strong conservative with stellar communications skills and an interesting resume that includes success and fame as a movie and TV actor. All this reminds many of Ronald Reagan, an icon of the right.

“Fred says he might run and he would be a real threat for the Republican nomination,” says a prominent conservative who is neutral in the presidential race so far. The problem: Is Thompson willing to devote the time and energy needed for a run?

So, has Rudy maxed out, Romney died and McCain stopped the bleeding?

Will the conservative White Knight of Fred Thompson move into the arena?

Possibly

A most probable analysis except – Can Thompson beat Hillary?

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2 Comments

ptg

March 26, 2007 at 10:34 pm

I think Thompson can win against Hillary Clinton. The campaign process tends toward a focus on negatives: Hillary loses against Fred by a preponderance of negatives.

levotb

March 27, 2007 at 12:13 am

Can we trust this man, a failed Senator? While he may seem better than the three “leading candidates”, his Senate record is not acceptable to anti-Invasion folks like myself. He did a great job as “President” in the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) film, “Last Best Chance” (seen by ordering it from http://www.nti.org/).

Here are some important links for those who don’t know how Thompson voted while in the Senate, particularly on illegal immigration bills:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=TN&VIPID=743

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm#Immigration

Fred Thompson to FOX’s Chris Wallace:

THOMPSON: No, no, no, no.
WALLACE: Well, let me put up on the screen something that you said last year about illegals, and let’s take a look at it. “You’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship but not make it so easy that it’s unfair to the people waiting in line and abiding by the law.”

Now, you said, “Look, it’s just not realistic that we’re going to round up 12 million people and ship them all out of the country.”

THOMPSON: Well, that’s true, as a general statement. We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with.

I mean, there’s really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I’m concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that’s why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary.

I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we’re insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we’ll talk about what to do with regard to other things – certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that.

But figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here.

You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you’re not encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once they’re here, they’ll go back, many of them, of their own volition, instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people up. That’s not going to happen.”

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CAN WE TRUST THIS MAN???

ptg

March 26, 2007 at 10:34 pm

I think Thompson can win against Hillary Clinton. The campaign process tends toward a focus on negatives: Hillary loses against Fred by a preponderance of negatives.
levotb

March 27, 2007 at 12:13 am

Can we trust this man, a failed Senator? While he may seem better than the three “leading candidates”, his Senate record is not acceptable to anti-Invasion folks like myself. He did a great job as “President” in the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative) film, “Last Best Chance” (seen by ordering it from http://www.nti.org/).

Here are some important links for those who don’t know how Thompson voted while in the Senate, particularly on illegal immigration bills:

http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=TN&VIPID=743

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm#Immigration

Fred Thompson to FOX’s Chris Wallace:

THOMPSON: No, no, no, no.
WALLACE: Well, let me put up on the screen something that you said last year about illegals, and let’s take a look at it. “You’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship but not make it so easy that it’s unfair to the people waiting in line and abiding by the law.”

Now, you said, “Look, it’s just not realistic that we’re going to round up 12 million people and ship them all out of the country.”

THOMPSON: Well, that’s true, as a general statement. We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with.

I mean, there’s really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I’m concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that’s why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary.

I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we’re insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we’ll talk about what to do with regard to other things – certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that.

But figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here.

You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you’re not encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once they’re here, they’ll go back, many of them, of their own volition, instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people up. That’s not going to happen.”

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CAN WE TRUST THIS MAN???