There's been no announcement for Fred Thompson yet. And increasingly I think the question will be not when, but why should Fred announce? The man is ahead in Rasmussen and doing just fine in other national polling.
And now we find that he's matching up quite nicely with Hillary in head-to-head polling. This will give him nice momentum without having to announce. He's for real, he competes nicely with top Democrats, and he's a conservative. The Republicans are waiting.
And there is the money factor. According to my understanding of federal election law, he can't raise it without announcing. But this week it's clear that none of the top Republicans are burning up the fundraising department. Especially in comparison with the Democrats. Could be one of two things. Either there are fewer Republicans than there used to be, or the money is out there waiting for Fred, whenever he decides to announce.
My bet is that the money is there and waiting. Which means Thompson strategists can delay their announcement knowing that the money will wait, and are not being scooped by Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Fred Thompson may have originally planned to announce this week, but things are going so well, why not wait?
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16. Putting the Clintons in the White House (again) is giving this 16 years there. Marcos tried that in the Philippines as they crooned to the people. That is on another name for BILL CLINTON, PRESIDENT. We must look for another potential individual to run for Office. As a Citizen, I can only vote for the one I think would be the best in Office. Therefore I vote for: F R E D T H O M P S O N
Eleanor at 11:06AM on Jul 7th 2007
17. At first look, Fred Thompson comes off as a quiet nice guy. After that, what? He has been merrily going along, not announcing he is a candidate, picking up supporters, raising money but, not one word about being a president.
Fred Thompson was at one time a Senator, I'm not sure how long he was a Senator. I do know, either he left his office after a term was up or in mid stream. He berated the Senate for not being able to get anything done, is this what we could expect from him again? Matbe a Bill or Law he wants passed is rejected with no chance of it being passed, will he fly the coop, whinning he can't get anything done? If he can quit once, he can quit again. I don't want that in the back of my mind if a crisis comes up and Freddy decides, he's not up to the task.
David Rosenberg at 3:33PM on Jul 7th 2007
18. I can hardly wait until Mr. T announces his entrance into the race. His values reflect the desires of the general population to return to what our founders had in mind when they gave us our constitution and set the tone of the Christian outlook on life.We must get away from the insanity of the constant war of words which accomplishes nothing.
Hazel Millward at 2:54PM on Jul 13th 2007