You see Fred did very well in the debate last week and it took a few days for the polling data coming in to start reflecting a bump. Then each day that passed the polling data showed a bigger and bigger increase.

This is not by accident. Pollers only ask a certain number of people per day and roll that data into their computers. For instance, a pollster may actually talk to about 20 people per day, depending on the number of questions they are set up to ask.

There is from what I can hear rhetorically a lot of excitement for Thompson in SC and Huckabee and McCain were/are on the way down. They are not who the people in America are excited about (in my humble opinion).

There isn’t a lot of excitement for ANYBODY in this race except Thompson that I see! Tell me WHO???

We’ll get this thing right and it’ll start with SC showing that tomorrow with a second place or first place finish for the most exciting guy in this race…

and that’s Fred Thompson!

Fred in ’08!

Personally I am rather disheartened by this post, and it saddens me incredibly.

Lorica, I’m not happy with it either, but facts are facts. If Fred can’t show something better than 10% in a primary soon – and I mean VERY soon – his time may have passed.

Look, I shared the interest in Fred and the excitement that was percolating through the blogosphere last summer. Like so many others, I was waiting for the announcement. Conservatives all over where ready to saddle up and ride to the sound of the guns, so to speak. So finally Fred goes on Leno and makes his announcement and then….

Nothing.

From everything I’ve been able to see, it’s been mismanaged from the start – that’s one aspect where I might differ from ST. I’ve read reports of things like not giving supporters more than a day’s notice of campaign events. A candidate with a laid-back style like Fred can’t afford those kind of problems.

The blog support is still alive and passionate, as witness the recent blogburst that netted some badly-needed financial support. Steveegg talked about it at some length on the bRight and Early broadcast just before the Iowa vote.

In short, Fred’s got the credentials and the ideas that so many of us can willingly get behind. Listen to him in the debates and read his position papers and most of us will be nodding in agreement. Fred appeals to the mind, in direct contrast to say, Empty Suit whose appeal is entirely based on personal magnetism and not one iota on ideas. But for much of today’s electorate, that’s not enough. You need to get more people than just us blog-dwelling political junkies to come out to vote for you.

I’ll be out here on Super Tuesday and voting for Fred in the NJ primary. But if his campaign can’t expand beyond what we’ve already seen – and do it soon – I think ST’s gut feeling is correct.

How can any conservative vote for Romney?

Because Hugh Hewitt will be on suicide watch if we don’t?

But seriously… support whoever you believe in.  That said, the way Hewitt at the altar of Mitt is so over the top it’s beyond parody.

Also, I think the media has more to do with polls, and how candidates are perceived than anything else. Thompson gets very little press, even less than any of hte other GOP runners..

So where is most of the media attention? On the Democrats of course. Even when Hillary doesn’t win, she is the news main item.

Hell, even Chris Matthews is apologizing on the air to her.

I need to find a clip of “I’m soooory….sooo soooorry…”

As for Fred, I hate to admit it, but ST may be right in that gut feeling. I want Fred to be President, he is the best of the lot we have, he is the man with the right ideas….but his ideas do not trump what others feel is making them FEEL like he WANTS it.

Beginning to think these people are democrats, with wanting him to make them FEEL like he really, really wants it.

They want to have him energize them…well drink some coffee.

I want him to make me safer, do the right thing, deal with the mess in washington….but it seems that doens’t trump how people want him to make them FEEL.

Personally I thought we as concervatives were more about using our heads and common sense, which would make Fred IT…and not judging adn going on FEELINGS.

It really is unfortunate.

Mitt looks and sounds like he was born to be President. He is the guy you would cast in a movie as the POTUS.

That’s funny…

Didn’t the Democrats say about the same thing about Bill “Slick Willie” Clinton?

As for where I’d go if Thompson also craps out, I see the remainder of the front-runners as accelerating the slouch toward socialism begun in earnest by “compassionate ‘conservatism’”, but by varying degrees. Romney is the closest to Bush though closer to the Dems, with Giuliani, John McCain and Mike Huckabee (in that order) progressively closer to the Dems (indeed, in key areas, they are completely indistinguishable).

I do disagree that Mitt reminds people of a slick used car salesman. Mitt looks and sounds like he was born to be President. He is the guy you would cast in a movie as the POTUS. Hopefully the Fred supporters will come over to Romney. We need a conservative candidate. I can’t see them going to Huckabee, McCain, or Giuliani.

Personally I am rather disheartened by this post, and it saddens me incredibly. – Lorica

Well, there really was no other way to put what I wanted to say, and I felt it needed to be said. Of course, I’m late to really talking about it in depth, as others starting doing so weeks ago. I wanted to give the campaign a little more time before I weighed in with my assessment. I could be wrong, but it’s just a gut feeling I have.

We aren’t always going to agree at this blog, but I want everyone to know where I stand and what I think re: what’s being written about and discussed.

Yeah…I know…vote for the “lesser of two evils”. However when you do that you are still supporting evil, even if it is the lesser of the two. IMHO, that’s immoral.

I am to the point where I want integrity and honesty first above all other things. As long as you are sincere in wanting what’s best for the citizens of this nation I will support you. We can debate policy later.

But I see no one who wants that.

Rush was just playing a sound bite from the head of the Southern Baptist Convention, and he said that people should throw their support behind Fred Thompson. David Limbaugh is supporting Fred. There is a huge ground swell of grass roots support for Fred, and I think he is going to do better than the polls will reflect, just like he did in Iowa. Look at the last debate, which he won. Look at his schedule right now, for a guy who is “uncommitted” he is working his tush off as we speak. I am believing that he will do better in SC than the polls will reflect.

Personally I am rather disheartened by this post, and it saddens me incredibly. – Lorica

Ala Edwards and Clinton. They have aspired for a long time to be pres. They see the government as the solution not the problem.

My two cents..