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In an AP analysis piece, Liz Sidoti goes over Fred Thompson's qualifications.
But his low-key style has not translated into charisma. He stumbles over questions from reporters and bumbles over his stump speech. The script is laden with broad pronouncements of a need to fix the country's ills but offers few specific solutions. He also is fighting the notion that he is lazy, given his languid pace of campaigning.
So, his main qualification for President of the United States is that he is tall....
and he's running second or third in the Republican polls.
(Presidential hopeful former Sen. Fred Thompson visits the Lincolnway Energy plant in Nevada, Iowa, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. (AP/Kevin Sanders))
(Also: New Hampshire, (WaPo) "Former actor and senator Fred D. Thompson (Tenn.) has slowly begun assembling an operation and now has three paid staffers in the state." (No rush, Fred.))
posted by mikevotes at
9:33 AM
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Is Fred becoming the Mike Gravel of the GOP field? Maybe not yet, if for no other reason than name recognition.
Never mind about Grandpa Fred. Uncle Mitt will be carrying the GOP banner come this time next year... I just got a feeling.
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-epm, at 1:12 PM
EPM, I really think Fred is gone.
Forget everything else, way back when, I questioned whether Thompson would be good on the stump. All of his "acting " has been small and smoldering, with no real evidence that he would be any good scaling up to large audiences and stages.
And, Of all the GOP field, I would rather have Romney, but I just don't see him getting over the top.
You're in NH, his target state, so you're getting all of his unopposed media and attention, but outside of the target states, he has no traction at all. (And, it'll be curious to see if the Romney push holds when everyone else buys media.)
But, then again, someone's gotta win, right? Giuliani has his problems, Thompson has problems, McCain has problems.....
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mikevotes, at 2:09 PM
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