Join
Get Local
Winning the Future
Dick Morris puts Newt in the Top Tier: Thompson Doesn't Hurt a Newt Candidacy
Polls show that a big part of the vote that John McCain and Mitt Romney are getting in the Republican primaries, to say nothing of the vote that Newt Gingrich could get if he runs, comes from people who are turned off by Giuliani’s social liberalism rather than turned on by any specific attraction to one of the candidates. This vote is now split four ways — among McCain, Romney, Fred Thompson, and Gingrich. If Fred Thompson gets into the race next month, it will drift to him and concentrate in his corner. [ed note: temporaly]McCain is not a good place for social conservatives to hang out because of his support for the immigration bill, among other liberal legislation. Romney’s flip-flop-flips on abortion and gay rights make him highly suspect. And Newt isn’t running yet. So if a true believer with no history of flip-flops and no offsetting liberal positions on other issues gets into the race, as Fred may, he will pick up a lot of these votes now parked among the other candidates.
Posted at The Hill's blog here.
Comments
Fred refuses to officially announce so he doesnt have to debate his opponents or particpate in the process he is quick to criticise.
Fred refuses to field questions from reporters or even his own supporters.
Karl Rove, who is the mastermind behind the amnesty bill is the one pulling strings and stiff arming people into showing support for Fred. Fred will ultimately support the bill no matter what lie he is speaking right now.
Matlin/Carville is sending Thompson to Israel and London later this month to make it appear Fred has foreign affairs experience, when in reality, he doesn’t.
Fred was for abortion before he was against it.
Fred was for Mcain/Feingold before he was against it.
Fred is a globalist.
Fred is a lobbyist.
Fred is a dirty ol man with a fetish for young girls.
This is just begining and this is all really know about the guy. I predect that more we know about Fred, the less people will support him. It is however, interesting to see SoCons twist themselves into a pretzel trying to sell this guy as the SoCon candidate when he is anything but that.
Posted by: Jim Robinson | June 13, 2007 1:56 PM
Newt might want to get in before September...
with florida and other states pushing up primaries.
lamar
P.s. maybe some slicker suits. We all know Newt is smart.....
Posted by: lamar lee | June 13, 2007 3:18 PM
A Newt candidacy would end the debate among conservatives of who to support. Fred T. may be a good man, but in the end, his policies & positions have not been clearly articulated & I fear if he becomes a candidate, those positions will be couched in the rhetoric of campaign hyperbole.
No, looking at the field, Newt is the guy to pull us out of the quagmire of more & bigger invasive government that just keeps digging its way deeper & deeper into our personal lives!
Posted by: S Ralston | July 2, 2007 2:56 PM