The problem I have isn’t that you aren’t a fan. Nor is it that I am one.

My problem is that what you did before Iowa was wrong, Ms. Malkin. You should retract it and apologize. Period.

1. Have a good voter registration list, preferably by street address.
2. ALWAYS get 1.5 times more signatures than you need. 2 times is even better.

I happen to live about five miles from Delaware, and it’s only a blue state because of Wilmington and New Castle County – Kent and Sussex counties are predominantly conservative areas (save maybe Rehoboth Beach, the SF of the East) but they simply don’t have enough votes to counter the city of Wilmington.

But there’s a few of us on the Eastern Shore of Maryland who pine for merging into the state of Delmarva – no sales tax and it would be a red state in the Northeast because all of us here on the Eastern Shore would wipe out Wilmington’s votes.

Anyway, back to Fred. Yes, he definitely screwed up and it’s sad for the voters of Delaware that neither Thompson nor Duncan Hunter will be on the ballot there. Admittedly, if you have a choice of states to do that in, Delaware is among the best because it’s pretty small – you just hope the mistake is an exception to the rule.

Michael Swartz
http://www.monoblogue.us

publiuswarmac9999 said:
The reason that Obama is drawing such interest and attention is that he offers hope for a better America. While I believe it is a false hope, no one running for the Presidency at this point is talking about America as a “shining city on a hill”. Fred Thompson would be doing much better if he stopped talking about problems and started talking about the solutions based upon American strengths. Give people credit for creating such good and talk about creating more good.

Very good points, Publius. I think the tendency is to stress what someone is against more than what s/he is for. On the Democrat side most of them are running against Bush – that won’t work come the general election.

HebrewToYou said:
The most principled conservative in the race is running a nontraditional campaign

Actually, it’s more like a “non-existent campaign”, HTY. Had Fred run a “traditional” campaign he likely wouldn’t be in the desperate straits in which he now find himself.

I think Fred is first choice of many here, including myself. The problem is not so much that Fred “has no fire in his belly” but that he needs someone to “light fire to trousers”.

If Fred doesn’t make it – and that’s becoming more and more the likely outcome – it isn’t the fault of any commentator or news organization. He only needs to check out the mirror for the culprit. And that’s a pity, I think he had so much promise.

Now, I think the most any of us can realisitically hope for would be Fred as a possible VP selection.

He could still take it out of neutral and get it into gear, but I’m not just holding my breath on that. We’ll know for sure when the primaries move south.

As Rush stated, Iowa and NH are anomalies. Neither state is indicative of who will ultimately be nominated.

Fred does not have the personal funds or contributions to compete in every state. He is employing the same strategy as Rudy. Rudy is campaigning in FLA; Fred is campaigning in SC.

On January 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm, backwoods conservative said:
Well said, Lindsay.

Ditto.

On January 8th, 2008 at 6:26 pm, Lindsay said:
Democratic Democrat socialist President

Just a pet peeve of mine – sorry.

“Democratic socialist” is contradictory. The Democrat party has little to do with being democratic.