davidl on December 18th, 2007

Fred Thompson

A couple of good videos about Fred came out today, here and here.  However nobody does Fred better than Fred himself.  From National Review,  on Hannity & Colmes, Fred says Huckabee “is not a conservative.”   Fred 

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davidl on December 14th, 2007

Fred08 has issued the following apology:

From Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director:

In light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times Magazine, we at the Thompson Campaign would

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Eric Florack on December 14th, 2007

It really has been mortifying to watch The National Review going supine for nothing but the value of winning the next election. That they would endorse Mitt Romney is just pathetic, and a glaring sign of the times. Kathryn Jean

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davidl on December 12th, 2007

Mrs. William ClintonJason Zengerle,  from that stalwart bastion of right wing thought the New Republic, nails Mrs. Clinton for her doublespeak:

From today’s NYT article about Hillary’s struggles in Iowa, this is a bit of a damning admission from the candidate,

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Drudge confirms something I’ve suspected for a while, now:


**Exclusive**

Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.

The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he

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Eric Florack on December 8th, 2007

John Hawkins over at  Right Wing News  has an interview posted with Fred Thompson’s campaign manager Bill Lacy.  An error on my part had this on my ticker for next year. My bad. Sorry, John.

It’s clear by what Lacy

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Eric Florack on December 6th, 2007

I don’t know, but this seems a great start.

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Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

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Eric Florack on December 4th, 2007

Captain Ed:

Recall the pushback when we linked to the Zogby poll that showed Hillary’s support eroding at the end of November? The numbers showed Hillary losing ground against all Republican contenders, and had some correlation with Rasmussen’s numbers as

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davidl on November 30th, 2007

Bit and I had a disagreement of the CNN debate debacle.  Bit argued that CNN’s screening process was faulty.  I argued that the only thing a whore screen is the money.

Gaius, Blue Crab Boulevard, shows that CNN’s plants

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Eric Florack on November 28th, 2007

Today’s WSJ:

Fred Thompson’s Presidential campaign has been struggling, in part because of a sense that he lacks passion and an agenda. But late last week he unveiled a tax reform that is more ambitious than anything we’ve seen so

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Eric Florack on November 27th, 2007

The “Rightosphere Temperature Check For November: Special GOP Primary Edition” is now up at RWN.

John Hawkins says in mail this morning:

 In this poll, right-of-center bloggers ranked the top 5 GOP contenders on everything from electability to fiscal

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Eric Florack on November 26th, 2007

Bob Novak:

Who would respond to criticism from the Club for Growth by calling the conservative, free-market campaign organization the “Club for Greed”? That sounds like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich or John Edwards, all Democrats preaching the class struggle.

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Eric Florack on November 21st, 2007

Rick Moran over at Pajamas Media discussing what went wrong with Fred Thompson’s campaign, as if it’s a post mortem. it’s a worthy read, which I commend to you.

Personally I am not quite so convinced that the whole situation

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Eric Florack on November 20th, 2007

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

You’re usually more on

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