Comments on: South Carolina Debate Reactions

By: Truth v. The Machine » Archives » Quick Debate Reax

Truth v. The Machine » Archives » Quick Debate Reax — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:21:54 +0000

[...] Jay Reding: Will this matter? Romney did very well in the last New Hampshire debate, and it didn’t help him much. However, with Romney out of South Carolina, that leaves a gap with the conservative vote. Thompson is perfectly situated to take that vote. As I said before, had Fred done this well before I think he could have beaten Romney in Iowa. [...]

By: Jay Reding

Jay Reding — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:38:35 +0000

Except for the part where that's not what Thompson said at all. Someone who doesn't like campaigning is burning a hell of a lot of shoe leather in South Carolina right now, and just gave the best debate performance of the season—and once again you're reduced to reciting the same old litany of tired talking points. Typical.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:10:54 +0000

“McCain/Thompson would be a ticket that I would love to support.”

Perhaps there’s a retirement home board of directors in which you’ll be able to support such a ticket in the near future, but the day any Republican nominee chooses a guy on record publicly stating he doesn’t like campaigning for President. I hate to break it to both you and Fred, but eagerness to campaign is kind of an important prerequisite to running for national office.