Go Fred!
Okay… I can have wishful thinking if I want.
Sultry Beauty on August 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Why wish? Write him in like I’m doing. That’s two of us: any other takers?

Send_Me on August 20, 2008 at 7:59 PM

I did it with pride in the TX primary. I fainted :) twice today when his name was mentioned at Hot Air. But when I revived, I realized that no, I will not be writing him in in November. He has been a competent, but not eloquent or prolific, writer since his day in the sun. His heart’s in the right place. Conservatism is in his architecture, but leadership is not. A more introverted society would revere him. The society we live in…hands over the keys to McCain or Obama.

-Aslan’s Girl

VP Karl Rove?

roninacreage on August 20, 2008 at 11:10 PM

Oooh! Don’t you know that would give the Democrats fits!

Why not Newt? Why should Newt be excluded from being part of the GOP rebuilding process as a mentor and a thoughtful provacateur?

Then we add Rudy to the faculty.

My point was and remains, is that the GOP has been wobbling between Democrat Lite and Expedience 101 for far too long. We also have a new generation coming on board, young men and women for whom Reagan is either an infant memory or something they’ve only read about. The YAF (an excellent program, by the way) is making headway, but we can only harken back to Reagan for just so long. We need to look forward, and chart a path to get there.

There are real Conservtives and real Federalists out there. We just need to find them, encourasge them, make it a priority for the GOP from local precincts to Washington, DC.

Conservatism and Federalism have been, for many “republicans,” concepts to be avoided, because of the tired old notion that to be Conservative in today’s world is a throwback, and that being a Federalist means you don’t care what happens at the state and local level.

We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union…

Well, it is about time, we Conservatives and Federalists, in order to form a more perfect America, should be writ large on our stationery. And we need to get well beyond just started in that pursuit.

Upstaged by the feces and urine throwing or upstaged by a Jimmy Carter speech?

Chuck Schick on August 20, 2008 at 5:21 PM

lol

I would hope after the GOP wins in November that Fred and Newt sit down and provide the GOP with some serious instruction on Conservatism and Federalism. Lord knows, we, the GOP, could use it.

coldwarrior on August 20, 2008 at 7:57 PM

Want to see a real Conservative and Federalist? Read this

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23488

Go Fred!
Okay… I can have wishful thinking if I want.
Sultry Beauty on August 20, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Why wish? Write him in like I’m doing. That’s two of us: any other takers?

Glad you caught that one.

Still have my “Vets for Fred!” sticker on my car.

I would hope after the GOP wins in November that Fred and Newt sit down and provide the GOP with some serious instruction on Conservatism and Federalism. Lord knows, we, the GOP, could use it.

Carter served only ONE term. 1977-1981. Having lived through it it did seem to go on forever and ever…

coldwarrior on August 20, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Herein lies the root of the problem. Great Republicans instead of great Conservatives.

Fred Thompson is very Federalist/Conservative; the kind of candidate the left least wanted to run against.

Oops, a goof: Carter was one term, so he technically would be permitted. I was thinking of Bill Clinton when I entered Carter. My bad.

Scenario: Pres takes office Jan. 20th, resigns next day, former two-term pres (the VP) is elevated to president. Not permitted.

Convention speakers named: Fred, Palin, Jindal, Romney, Huck, Pawlenty — and Rudy as keynote

REFRESHING…
I love Governors Sarah Palin, and Bobby Jindal. Two up and coming new Pubby stars.

Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.
Gov. Charlie Crist, R-Fla.
Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas
Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla

Doubtful that it’ll be a dark horse (rascist!!).

Presently happily single, previously owned married.

coldwarrior on August 20, 2008 at 6:13 PM

Sorry to hear that. But you do remind me of a friend who lived in Cali with the same name and sense of humor/common sense. I went on a vacation with a political “group” and we all went to vegas and had a great time. 2003 or 2004 lol can’t remember the year.

Also, why are the keeping Lieberman out of primetime? He should be getting hrown in the dems face with a big speech.

upinak on August 20, 2008 at 6:06 PM –

That’d have to have been years and years ago, and except for the fact that the only part of Vegas I’ve set foot in was the airport a few times transiting to other places in lower Nevada.

Presently happily single, previously owned married.

coldwarrior on August 20, 2008 at 6:04 PM

LOL. I swear I went on vacation to Vegas with you and your wife. Too funny!

Ixnay on the Ushbay! :-) [That'd end it for the GOP even before the ink was dry on the press announcements.]

I’m talking about Obama selecting Carter as a running mate…elder statesman and all that. Carter is venal enough to accept it.

Has a former President ever appeared on a ballot for Vice President?
coldwarrior on August 20, 2008 at 5:41 PM

Not that it would happen in a million years, but imagine if McCain picked Bush for this VP. It would drive the “McCain is Bush#3 / McSAME!”democrats completely over the top. Of course, it wouldn’t work because the same man can’t be president 3 times. If anything happened to McCain, we’d get a president Nancy Pelosi. (An alternate selection would be Dick Cheney. Now that is devilish.)

But nothing says Carter can’t be Obama’s VP. Nothing would be more appropriate, since an Obama presidency could be very much like Carter’s second term.