Gingrich and Thompson: The men who aren’t there

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<TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">Gingrich and Thompson: The men who aren’t there

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="70%" colSpan=2>By Dick Morris

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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>These lines, by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, might as well have been dedicated to Messrs. Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Huckabee, Brownback, Tommy Thompson, Hunter, Tancredo and Gilmore:

When I was coming down the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I do wish he’d go away

But, in the case of the Republican presidential primary, there are two men who aren’t there: former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.). But their presence — or absence — haunts the GOP primary nonetheless. Until they make their respective moves to enter or foreswear entering the primaries, they will freeze a critical segment of conservative Republicans who are withholding their affections from other suitors, waiting for Mr. Right to arrive.

http://thehill.com/dick-morris/gingrich-and-thompson-the-men-who-arent-there-2007-04-10.html

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Until they make their respective moves to enter or foreswear entering the primaries, they will freeze a critical segment of conservative Republicans who are withholding their affections from other suitors, waiting for Mr. Right to arrive.
This is nothing but a good thing. There is no hurry. The fact that the media-apponted "front-runners" started their campaigns way too early is no reason that any of the serious contenders should make the same mistake.

Democrats and the liberal media have accomplished nothing for the past 8 years except to trash George Bush. They don't have one positive thing to offer, and they know that. Their ONLY strategy for the 2008 election is to try and transfer all that ginned-up hatred onto a new face the second we pick a candidate.

But that scent-switching will take time. And the less time we give them, the better.

[The_Elucidator]

This is nothing but a good thing. There is no hurry. The fact that the media-apponted "front-runners" started their campaigns way too early is no reason that any of the serious contenders should make the same mistake.

Democrats and the liberal media have accomplished nothing for the past 8 years except to trash George Bush. They don't have one positive thing to offer, and they know that. Their ONLY strategy for the 2008 election is to try and transfer all that ginned-up hatred onto a new face the second we pick a candidate.

But that scent-switching will take time. And the less time we give them, the better.

:yeahthat:

I keep thinking back to the '04 'Rat debates with Lurch and the 7 dorks, where it was one big group Bush bash. They had no substance to offer; just that Bush sucks.

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I keep thinking back to the '04 'Rat debates with Lurch and the 7 dorks, where it was one big group Bush bash. They had no substance to offer; just that Bush sucks.
I asked a lot of people to name one reason they planned to vote FOR John Kerry - as opposed to voting AGAINST George Bush. And I don't mean just as a thought experiment; I actually did it - a lot.

And not ONE person was ever able to answer the question.

The best anyone could manage was to sputter for a few seconds (in a bizarrely inept imitation of a Montana Militiaman) about how no one who hasn't killed Commies with his bare hands is qualified to be President. Then they'd lapse back into a tirade about how incredibly evil George Bush is.

I never got the impression that Theresa Kerry was all too thrilled with the hassle of being First Lady. So that left John Kerry as the only voter in America who actually supported HIM personally. But eventually I began to doubt even that; after all this time spending every day doing nothing except bashing Bush, I actually believe that John Kerry has stopped thinking of himself as anything other than a living vessel for mass hatred: the "Anti-Bush".

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The best anyone could manage was to sputter for a few seconds (in a bizarrely inept imitation of a Montana Militiaman) about how no one who hasn't killed Commies with his bare hands is qualified to be President. Then they'd lapse back into a tirade about how incredibly evil George Bush is.


Somehow that doesn't at all surprise me.