The lead to this Fox News story on Fred’s debate performance last night tells the tale:
Following a debate where GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson gave a lackluster performance, the former Tennessee senator is challenging his opponents to meet him for a more personal follow-up — on his terms.
As I noted earlier, Mr. Thompson did not have a stellar performance last night. But, is this the best way for him to correct it?
Mr. Thompson has already issued this challenge once, as we reported here. Unfortunately for the country, he then declined Mike Huckabee’s acceptance of his challenge. Does he not think that Mr. Huckabee will accept again? But wait - there is a qualifier.
“I would like for each of us in small groups … to sit in small groups and have a discussion, a round-table discussion,” Thompson said. “Anybody who’s a serious contender for the nomination — I would get to decide as to who I’d get to sit down with, and it’d be several. And I’d do it one-on-one, one-on-three or whatever.”
Oh, so Fred would get to decide who is or isn’t a “serious contender”. That should be interesting, letting him determine whom we should get to vote for.
Fred’s slow, careful answers to questions have not gone over too well in the fast paced debates, so I can understand his wanting to sit down and take more time. And would thoroughly enjoy the show. But, he’s already run from Huckabee once. And does he really, truly think Mitt or Rudy would be easier foes?
Or does he consider Ron Paul to be a top tier candidate? Perhaps he thinks he would look good next to the hyper doctor raising his shrill voice, telling us we are the problem in the global terror wars.
Or will he run home to mama again, complaining that Fox News is biased against him for saying he had a lackluster performance?
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What do you expect from Fred? the script writers are on strike, he seems lost without them.
Fred Thompson didn’t make the impact we all thought he was going to make once he got in. He maybe good at acting when someone else prepares a script for him to memorize. Maybe he should memorize his staff’s prepared answers for each potential question. But he had better hope they don’t ask him a question where he has to adlib an answer. I guess he could say “let me look into it and I’ll get back with you”
Help, I’m being repressed!
Let’s draft Ted Poe next election!
I heard Thompson supporters saying what a good job he did in the debate. It’s each person’s perspective. I don’t care how charismatic a person is. I don’t need to be entertained, dynamically cajoled, or smiled at and lied to. I need a president who is firm and can stand up to the future facing us. Perhaps he looked less than stellar because he realized he was at a debate, engineered by CNN to ask irrelevent questions that were designed to make Republicans look like racist, psycho, religious haters.
Um, AW, could you post a few of the questions that made Republicans look bad?
I did on the other thread BigJ…… did it make them look bad? No. Did these idiotic questions give us plans and information about the state of taxation, states rights and other issues we need to learn about. No. It was untoward and out of line to ask What Jesus would think of the death penalty. These questions were picked to feed the belief that we conservative Republicans are right wing nut jobs. How many questions have the dems faced like this? none. I’m sick of the double standard. It’s ok to be happy about the debate, but let’s call the debate what it really was. This debate was a CNN planned function to feed the liberal masses.
AW, you nailed it.
#6: Amen, sista!
Fine. Then let’s let the results speak for themselves. Pubbie’s kicked tail.
Okay?
# 9 Yes dear