Screw Bush & Cheney. We NEED to pre-emptively destroy Thompson.

[NoodleyAppendage]

Fred Thompson is the SINGLE BIGGEST threat. Bush/Cheney are gone in 18 months, but the Neocon/corporate cabal's "continuity of power" exists in a Thompson 2008 election win. Thompson will just extend the Neocon's hold on power.

Rove & Cheney advancemen are now on Thompson's payroll. The Repuke talking heads on Faux are uniformly backing Thompson. Thompson fits their schema of the "strong daddy" role without the problems that alienate the Bible Thumper dumbasses (i.e., Guilani's relatively liberal social positions).

WE NEED OPPOSITION RESEARCH ON THOMPSON. Dig up what you can, but hold onto it until he announces then release. He must be crushed.

J

[dkofos]

1. OK As soon as he officially enters the race

[williesgirl]

2. Couldn't agree with you more. He'll wait til just before convention to announce, giving

folks less time to research etc. Name recognition means alot in this country, regardless of character, experience etc (i.e. our criminal-in-chief). recommended

[NoodleyAppendage]

4. He's a stealth candidate with a SERIOUS chance of winning 2008

Thompson scares the sh*t out of me. Hillary doesn't stand a chance and Obama will struggle to peel off Southern closet racist votes if he faces a strong white male figure (Thompson). Edwards might be a good match-up (i.e., optimistic populist vs. angry white male corp types).

J

[WCGreen]

6. He can't wait until just before the convention...

There will be hundreds of committed delegates won through elections and caucuses that are legally bound to vote for those who elected these delegates as their proxy...

[NoodleyAppendage]

7. He'll wait as long as possible prior to convention. n/t

J

[WCGreen]

14. He can't ignore the Primaries or the Caucus states...

It's not politcally viable for him to seek the nomination...

[Ian David]

3. We also have to destroy Ronald Raygun's image. It's his legacy they're campaigning on. n/t

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. Good luck with that. He's due for sainthood in Repuke eyes.

It's hard to destroy anyone who died of Alzheimer's disease. There's an immediate sense of sympathy that tends to counteract any wrong-doing of the person.

J

[Poiuyt]

8. He was a lobbyist for a pro-choice cause and he was a mole leaking information

to the Nixon White House during the Watergate hearings.

The first pisses off the RW of the Republican party, the second pisses off the moderates.

[NoodleyAppendage]

10. Shrug him off at your own peril. A sizable majority of the Southern Bible thumpers like him.

Never underestimate the capacity of Xtians to look the other way on their professed values when the prospect of continuing or gaining political power is at play.

J

[Poiuyt]

13. I am certainly NOT shrugging him off.

I know he will be a strong opponent. But only because the MSM says he's like Reagan. The Repubs are searching for the Holy Grail that is Reagan, and if Tweety says he has a deep voice and smells like cigar smoke, then he must be a good candidate (for the Repubs). They are very image conscious. Maybe we are too, I don't know.

[Homer12]

9. To Old and Out of Touch

...Slap him with the Bob Dole. He will stand no chance.

[NoodleyAppendage]

11. Wanna bet? He's not even in the race and he's already #2 in some polls.

Thompson is a serious threat.

J

[SeattleGirl]

12. Exactly. Remember, the Republican Party is the Daddy Party,

and Thompson has "daddy" down pat, far more so than the others. And I'm not being tongue-in-cheek or facetious here either. They'll play him up as the big, strong daddy figure who will keep us safe; safer certainly than a woman or a black man.

We definitely need to find out all we can about him, and do whatever we can to try and stop him.