Video: Fred’s newest, and perhaps last, ad in South Carolina
posted at 8:37 pm on January 16, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Via STACLU, this is what your donations paid for. He’s laying it all on the table. WYSIWYG.
It’s a huge buy, and why not? There’s nothing to lose.
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…and if Americans prefer an amnesty shill over what they see here, they damn well deserve it.
MadisonConservative on January 16, 2008 at 8:39 PM
It was nice knowing you Fred!
ninjapirate on January 16, 2008 at 8:40 PM
That was a powerful ad. Go, Fred, Go.
RushBaby on January 16, 2008 at 8:40 PM
That was great!
nottakingsides on January 16, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Fight to the Death Fred!
omnipotent on January 16, 2008 at 8:43 PM
God bless you Fred! Good luck Saturday!
countywolf on January 16, 2008 at 8:43 PM
It’s old footage people… Fred is dead!
HaraldHardrada on January 16, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Huckabee wins Iowa. McCain wins New Hampshire. Romney wins Michigan. Thompson wins South Carolina. Giuliani wins Florida. That would be fun.
SoulGlo on January 16, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Thanks for the Fred!porn Allah…..hope it’s not our last………Sigh.
omnipotent on January 16, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Not bad. Not bad at all.
Zorro on January 16, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Update: GW’s got his groove back?
Zorro on January 16, 2008 at 8:47 PM
If Fred had come in sooner. With a little more fire in that belly. What might’ve been. Unfortunate.
lorien1973 on January 16, 2008 at 8:48 PM
He’s going a little heavy on the “conservative” thing, and offering very little in the way of specifics. The definition of what a “conservative” is depends on who you ask. Perhaps it’ll work, and voters will project their hopes onto him as many of our Fredhead friends have. However, maybe it won’t, and people will wonder what exactly it is that he hopes to do as President. I’d bet on the latter.
Also, he talks about fighting for “conservative” judges. Isn’t that a departure from the usual rhetoric, and getting a bit close to endorsing judicial activism?
Big S on January 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM
The “God not government” line is great and the way Fred delivers it is classic. I’ve heard him give it before, its nice to see it in an ad.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM
If Fred finishes 3rd or lower in SC, Reagan conservatism is gone forever. Conservatism will be redefined. THAT will make me sad.
Oink on January 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM
You know…your comments are BEYOND tiresome. Dearest troll, your work here is done. Move on.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 8:49 PM
That was a solid ad. Hope it works.
Long live Fred Thompson!
someguy on January 16, 2008 at 8:50 PM
I’m sorry, but I don’t think Fred will take SC. Its looking like McCain or Huck…
Keep praying for a Fred or Mitt victory in SC.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 8:50 PM
For a moment, I thought Bush was gonna get into the full swing of things; and slice the guy’s head off (the dude kneeling down in front of him).
lorien1973 on January 16, 2008 at 8:50 PM
Great ad. Really nice. Does he have a 30 sec version or is the buy for 1 minute length?
Spirit of 1776 on January 16, 2008 at 8:51 PM
I’m leaning Romney, but I’d have no trouble pulling the lever for Fred.
sulla on January 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM
I think Mitt and to a certain extent Rudy would maintain “Reagan conservatism” if some sort of divine intervention doesn’t happen and Fred loses.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 8:52 PM
What Rush has been saying. If McCain or Huckabee win then conservatism is a gonner.
If Fred doesn’t make it, he will go down as a personal hero on conservatism to me.
Jay on January 16, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Reagan conservatism is dead because today you all never would have forgiven him for the amnesty that started us on this road. I find it sickening that you have sabotaged a great mans vision into a rigid hyperbolic dogma. He is shaking his head upstairs.
tomas on January 16, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Bush needs to adopt a no silly sword and a no goofy tribal dance rule!
Go Fred!
TheSitRep on January 16, 2008 at 8:54 PM
That Bush thing is the most demoralizing thing I’ve ever seen. He keeps outdoing himself on the “demoralize Republicans” campaign. He’ll even outdo this stunt before he is through.
Buddahpundit on January 16, 2008 at 8:56 PM
I don’t normally enjoy Jon Stewart’s brand of humor, but the footage of Bush in the Middle East he played last night was awesome. He looks like such a dork running around with all these people. “Please lower the oil prices, please!” “Maybe, if you dance with the sword” “Totally, I can do that”
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 8:56 PM
Lol. Shaking his head at what he termed a mistake. The American people care about intent my friend, and Reagan, even when wrong on policy, is beloved because you can trust he wanted what was best for the USA.
Spirit of 1776 on January 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM
Fred is the one every conservative in his heart of hearts wants as President. The only way to make that happen is to just do it – vote for the BEST man, not the poll leader, not the pundit’s or media’s favorite, or the one who is less desirable but supposedly electable.
In 2008 the conservative dream can die or it can resurrect. Fred will get my first vote (meaning my primary vote). Will he get yours?
centralcal on January 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM
He’s held hands with the Saudis; now he’s holding their “sword” and dancing with them. Only one thing left to to do, really.
lorien1973 on January 16, 2008 at 8:58 PM
That is the biggest load of crap and he would be sitting at home today in last place.
tomas on January 16, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Yup.
Big S on January 16, 2008 at 8:59 PM
Who was the little monkey shining their shoes while they were dancing?
I hope Fred sticks with it until Super Tuesday. We might all get a pleasant surprise. However… sadly, I feel the Republican party is just as dead as the Blue Dog Democrats that I was raised to be. We are no more. Unless a true miracle transverses The United States of America down an unforeseen path to recovery our country shall remain a shambles with little hope for the common man. Have a drink. It’ll help ease the pain.
Griz on January 16, 2008 at 8:59 PM
I’m not sure Fred is going to pull off a SC victory, as much as I’d like to see him do it. The last poll I saw had him at fourth place, behind McCain, Huckabee and Romney, despite his awesome performance at the last debate.
amerpundit on January 16, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Fred had multiple chances to hit McCain on several issues but failed to do so. Fred’s greatest moment was hitting Huck, but other than that the only man with any balls this campaign season is Mitt Romney.
CABE on January 16, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Dude, I guess the Writer’s Guilds in Dubai and Riyadh didn’t go on strike. There must be some TV show out there featuring various royalty getting Bush to do stupid things.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Straight up,no nonsense,honest Republican,and for the
religious aspect of a conservative,he’s right,does come from God,he doesn’t say anymore and doesn’t say any less.
At least compared to Huckerbee,he’s not pandering to the
religious right,I think Fred’s statement on it covers it.
In this time of war,Fred Thompson is the choice,and this
is just a good ole’ plain speaking commercial!
canopfor on January 16, 2008 at 9:02 PM
I think Mitt doesn’t care if any of the other guys like him or not. Fred, on the other hand, seems to have a friendship with McCain and therefore doesn’t want to attack him.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 9:02 PM
One of the few drawbacks of Fred.
CABE on January 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM
Okay.
Spirit of 1776 on January 16, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Huck informed us in the NH debate that he fixed that.
Spirit of 1776 on January 16, 2008 at 9:10 PM
The GW clip would have been relevant if GW started swinging that sword he was holding to the drum beat at everyone of those towelheads necks full-force to let them know we are the US-of-A……..
awesum on January 16, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Money well spent. Folks in South Carolina, this FredHead has confidence in you!
RushBaby on January 16, 2008 at 9:13 PM
I wouldn’t get too upset about 1 poll – much less 1 Zogby weekend poll – without external confirmation. And even when polls have agreed, they often get things wrong, especially in these primaries: The last MI polls, including a Zogby, had McCain ahead, just to cite recent evidence.
None of us knows what’s happening in SC. Fred’s supposedly getting positive overflow crowds (mostly), but crowds don’t prove anything. And trolls on internet message board and number of commenters telling you who they will or won’t vote for really don’t tell you anything.
As for the ad, I would have preferred or at least would have considered something a little more urgent – reprising his fight for the soul of the Republican Party line from his anti-Huck tirade – but it states his case succinctly and positively. I don’t pretend to know why Fred took so long to get started: If he’d jumped in over the Summer he could have had enough money to have been playing an ad like this one since then. But he had his own Gingrichian theory of the race – about when and how to get in. We’ll find out very soon whether there was anything to it.
CK MacLeod on January 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Nice ad by Fred. I still dont know why he hasnt gained any traction in S. Carolina.
What I worry about is if Fred stalls out and has to drop out of the race, he may well throw his support to his good ol’ buddy from the Senate, Mr. McAmnesty.
And what a damn shame THAT would be.
Always Right on January 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Also he talks about fighting for “conservative Judges”
Big S on Januarry 16,2008 at 8:49PM.
Big S: If I have my facts right,I think Fred was saying in
a round about way that there will be two Supreme
Court Judge opening’s whoever is President,besides
the war,the economy,this will be extremely important
to either side!
canopfor on January 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM
“Consistent conservative.”
His American Conservative Union ratings were mostly in the 80s.
15-20% of the time the Consistent Conservative Senator voted in a NON-conservative manner.
EJDolbow on January 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Still, a lot of political conservatives state that they don’t want liberal or conservative, but impartial judges who will interpret the constitution based on what it says and what the particulars of a specific case may be. Is this a mistake, a pander, or Fred’s real opinion? In any case, it’s far from the usual rhetoric on judges. Imagine if the Democrats pledged to appoint “liberal” judges!
Big S on January 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM
The Fred surge will come.
TexasDan on January 16, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Awesome ad.
If conservatives don’t vote for this guy in SC on Saturday, well then they deserve what they get in November.
Fred! He is the best man for the job.
SimplyKimberly on January 16, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Yes they do. Too bad those of us who were not too damned lazy and shallow to get excited over a genuine Conservative will have to live with their choice though.
Gatordoug on January 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM
EJDolbow, thats more consistent than any of the others.
Jay on January 16, 2008 at 9:28 PM
Short on specifics? He has the most specific plans of any candidate! If you can manage to go to his website, you could see them! Good grief!
Gatordoug on January 16, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Yup.
Ex-tex on January 16, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Gatordoug, some people are too lazy to go to the candidate’s actual website.
Jay on January 16, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Screw you, AP. The fight goes on with or without your unwelcome snark. I realize you’re in the entertainment biz, but I could give a big crap. You’re a tweaker.
I drew my line. You challenged me on it weeks ago. I’m going double down on it right now.
It’s Fred. Or I walk.
Why? My party abandoned me.
However, I’ll be just fine. My values and heart are not up for the highest bidder.
Bet on it.
wccawa on January 16, 2008 at 9:31 PM
Loks that way! Hopefully they will also be too lazy to vote! Freaking morons!
Gatordoug on January 16, 2008 at 9:34 PM
I could be wrong but it sure looked to me like the Great Conservative Hope’s ad was shot in bar. Where the snark about that, AP? You just aren’t doing enough snark. and your welcome snark makes my day.
thuja on January 16, 2008 at 9:36 PM
There are a lot of you people and I don’t get it. What about the other conservative, Romney, would keep you from voting for him in the general?
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 9:37 PM
You can call him a conservative all you want, but it doesn’t actually make him a conservative.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Fred’s newest, and perhaps last, ad in South Carolina
and I’ll be looking forward to the new ads in Florida…
Go Fred!!
stlpatriot on January 16, 2008 at 9:41 PM
I am writing his name in regardless!
We want Fred on that wall!
We need Fred on that wall!
TheSitRep on January 16, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Rush isn’t putting a lot of weight behind SC. He keeps say that the real conservative states are coming up and there won’t be any dems or independents voting in republican primaries.
Fred!
RobertInAustin on January 16, 2008 at 9:44 PM
I’m with Rush.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 9:45 PM
If you had read my consistent, conservative message over the last few months, you would see that my message- and feelings- have not changed.
Romney, McCain, Huckster, whoever else, can kiss my check-writing butt. I have been there, done that. I have an eight year old daughter, and I will NOT be part of seeing this country entropy further. (Is entropy a verb?)
The memory I wish for my daughter to remember is to see her dad fighting for a country that used to be, and should be again. It has been many long decades of both despair and delight, but I’ve had it.
I am NOT prepared to sell out a small part of my beliefs for the overall good. Example? 2000. 2004.
Kinda makes you throw up JUST a little bit in your mouth, doesn’t it?
I keep my autographed picture of GWB over my desk just to remind me of how awful, how quickly, and how insidious the sell out really is. I look at it every day and wonder how we got to this point. How we are faced with the choices presented to su.
I am fully prepared for four years of hell. And if I get labelled the most stubborn, loyal conservative on this thread, I would accept it as an honor.
It’s Fred, or you Repubs can go get bent.
Bank on it.
wccawa on January 16, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Mitt may have fooled a lot of folks, but some of us who have taken a good look at his record and his pandering to gain the POTUS office simply do not believe his new persona, that of a conservative. I (because I can’t speak for anyone else here) have been biting my tounge all through the Bush presidency and simply had enough of halfassed conservatism when he tried to push the amnesty bill down our collective throats. I personally will not settle for a half of the conservative ideology with my next vote. If the nation want socialism mixed in with it’s so-called conservative POTUS candidate, so be it. But I will not contribute my vote to making it happen. If I have to, when the primary rolls around to my state, I will write Freds name in. And when I go to bed each night for the next four years it will be with a clear conscience, because I will know I for one did not compromise my belief in the true conservative values.
P. James Moriarty on January 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM
You forgot Hunter in NV this Saturday. (And NV has more delegates than MI or SC.)
Maybe we can have a CONVENTION this year, instead of a boring coronation.
But if it is McCain, Huck, or Rudy, it will be a wake, and I will get an extra vacation day in November. I will not be a party to a “Republican”-led shamnesty next administration.
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM
You know, I don’t think conservatism is dead, even if it doesn’t prevail in this cycle. My dad has been a conservative all of his adult life. He was inspired by Goldwater. He always felt that he was a conservative first, and he votes Republican because they have most closely matched his values. But when Goldwater lost and Reagan lost his first time out, there were a lot of years there with no conservative option. But Reagan came back.
My dad has held his nose and voted for the lesser of two evils for a lot of election cycles. I will do the same if Fred loses the primaries. But if Fred loses, conservatism will still come back. The Republicans may lose their way for a while, but the philosophy will still be there waiting.
By the way, my dad says he won’t vote for John McCain if he is the nominee. It’ll be the first election he has ever skipped. He says he can’t vote for someone who thinks that waterboarding is torture. I had forgotten about that particular flaw in McCain in my concern about amnesty and Gang of 14. A McCain presidency will have no way to get information from the bad guys.
TX Mom on January 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM
Jim DeMint (Rep. SC) one of the two heroes in the Senate, along with Jeff Sessions, in defeating Juan Plantation McVano’s production of “Grand Shamnesty in the Middle of the Night” has endorsed
FredRomney.MB4 on January 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Maybe this shows my age, but I actually thought that’s what the convention WAS.
MadisonConservative on January 16, 2008 at 9:49 PM
Rush hasn’t endorsed anyone. He’s a lot more concerned with resisting Huckabee and McCain than he is in supporting any of the others.
If Fred doesn’t do very well in SC, then it’s true that other states will matter more – just not to Fred.
CK MacLeod on January 16, 2008 at 9:50 PM
That’s not the ad.
This is the ad.
Tennman on January 16, 2008 at 9:52 PM
No Rush doesn’t endorse in the primaries, but he has made VERY clear who is NOT conservative. Romney was one of them.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 9:53 PM
You forgot Hunter in NV this Saturday, and NV has more delegates than MI or SC!
We may have a real convention yet, instead of a coronation or wake.
If McCain, Huck, or Rudy is nominated by the “Republican” party, I get an extra day of vacation in November. I refuse to be a party to a shamnesty next year.
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Sorry. If I’d have followed the link instead of the old ad up on top, I wouldn’t have made the comment.
Fred is going to win SC.
Tennman on January 16, 2008 at 9:54 PM
+1
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 9:57 PM
I wore an ‘I Like Ike’ button in junior high (after reading Crusade in Europe in 7th grade), and campaigned for Goldwater in 1964. Also got to vote for Reagan FOUR times (eat that, haraldo).
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 10:00 PM
This is an old commercial. I wish him luck.
bnelson44 on January 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
You might also enjoy this. Four states have actual “illegal immigration laboratories” running now, proving that shamnesty is not needed. Just a little law enforcement. States are “doing the job our American President and Congress won’t do”.
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Have you ever even listened to the show? Or do you just hear when people say good things about Fred? Rush has made it clear that Fred is his favorite, but never said (or implied) that Romney “wasn’t conservative”.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Fred has as good a chance as Romney winning SC. So since Allah thinks Fred will be out after this, which RINO will win?
Jay on January 16, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Fred Heads may want to email the You Tube link to everyone they know. Feb 5th absentee ballots are already distributed in many states. The link is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7yLds0G5eU
bnelson44 on January 16, 2008 at 10:08 PM
I listen nearly every day. And he has indeed stated evidence of a lack of conservatism in Romney. He’s talked about McVain, Hucklebee, Rudy and Romney.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 10:09 PM
My sentiments exactly! I’ve never done a write in vote, but in this election, it would be the only vote I could cast with a clear conscience.
backwoods conservative on January 16, 2008 at 10:10 PM
McCain’s SC ad is here
bnelson44 on January 16, 2008 at 10:11 PM
And malan89, logic will tell you, if he’s made clear that Fred is his fave, and he only supports conservatives, then your man Mitt is not the conservative in the race.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Fred Thompson is the only adult running for president.
Dusty on January 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM
Whoops, except for Hunter.
Dusty on January 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Hey, can we get the same mobilization to write-in Fred, as we did to defeat Shamnesty? It’s a thought.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM
from Zogby:
Zogby: National Dem Race A Dead Heat, McCain Has Small Lead Among Republicans
The new Zogby poll shows the Democratic race to be a statistical dead heat nationally. Hillary Clinton comes in first with 39%, not significantly different from Barack Obama’s 38%. John Edwards is way behind at 9%.
On the Republican side, John McCain has a narrow lead of 28% to Mike Huckabee’s 23%. In third place was Fred Thompson at 14%, with MItt Romney at 13%. Rudy Giuliani, the former national frontrunner, has only 9%.
The poll was conducted before the Michigan primary, so we cannot know yet what the impact will be of Romney’s nine-point victory over McCain.
(1/16/2008)
stlpatriot on January 16, 2008 at 10:14 PM
First off, while I do agree with him a lot, Rush is not the emperor of conservatives. And I would also like to point out that Rush has showed the flaws in every candidate, including Thompson. Every time a true conservative talks about campaign finance reform or the first amendment, it should feel like a fatal blow to your guy.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 10:19 PM
The anti-shamnesty vote seems to be split between Duncan, Fred, and Mitt.
malan89 on January 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM
McCain + Huck = 48%
They can not be polling the same 70% of Americans who were against that terrible bill and who shut down the Capitol switchboard last Summer.
Does. Not. Compute.
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM
Who said he was the emperor? That’s a leap.
tickleddragon on January 16, 2008 at 10:23 PM
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 10:20 PM
i agree, heres the link..
http://www.zogby.com/Soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=16495
stlpatriot on January 16, 2008 at 10:27 PM
Roger that.
And the only one talking about this problem, which is KILLING this country. He told me (in person) that American-based multinationals (with foreign factories) were able to buy enough Congresscritters to keep the VAT exemption in our trade agreements.
And since we granted that exemption to the single country – France – that had one in 1950’s, 136 additional countries now have added a VAT.
Ever heard a question about the unfair VAT exemption on a debate? Thought not.
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Must be that Americans have forgotten. Or that McCain gets away with his “it’s not amnesty because there is a fine” crapola. I agree. It’s not amnesty. It’s worse. it’s awarding the convicted burglar with the jewels he stole, as long as he pays a fine. I’m sick.
I actually talked to a Thompson campaign ‘operative’ today and suggested that Fred (and Romney, and Hunter if allowed) frame it as what it is – REWARDS and after-the-fact BRIBES.
fred5678 on January 16, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Rasmussen is polling SC tonight. If Fred’s numbers haven’t gone up, it will be a victory of the uninformed over the informed. That and poll pushing will scale new heights in future primaries.
redneck hippie on January 16, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Hammer.On.Nail.Head.
knob on January 16, 2008 at 10:48 PM
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