Poll: Thompson A Factor In GOP Race
CBS: Undeclared Republican Candidate Fred Thompson Is Running Second To Giuliani
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Former Sen. Fred Thompson is already attracting support, even though he has yet to announce his candidacy for the GOP nomination. (Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)
Thompson, the "Law & Order" actor and former Tennessee senator, is tied with Arizona Sen. John McCain for second place, behind former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in the latest CBS News poll.
With Thompson in the mix, Giuliani leads among Republican primary voters with 34 percent. He's followed by Thompson and McCain, at 22 percent and 21 percent, respectively; and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at 6 percent.
Without Thompson in the field, Giuliani jumps up to 42 percent, trailed by McCain at 26 percent and Romney at 8 percent.
IF THESE WERE THE CANDIDATES, WHO WOULD YOU WANT AS REPUBLICAN NOMINEE?
(Among Republican Primary Voters)
Giuliani
McCain
Romney
Thompson
Someone else/none
On the Democratic side, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton maintains her lead in a three-way race over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Forty-eight percent of Democratic primary voters say they'd like to see Clinton as the party's nominee, followed by 24 percent for Obama and 11 percent for Edwards
As in previous polls, Democratic voters are more satisfied with their party's candidates than Republicans are.
IF THESE WERE THE CANDIDATES, WHO WOULD YOU WANT AS DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE?
(Among Democratic Primary Voters)
Clinton
Obama
Edwards
Only 30 percent of Republicans say they're satisfied with their choices — the lowest number ever. Sixty-one percent of GOP primary voters want more choices.
Conversely, 61 percent of Democrats are satisfied with their candidates, while just 35 percent want more choices.
A majority of Americans, 53 percent, would like a third party to compete with Democrats and Republicans; 41 percent disagree.
But as of now, most don't know much about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whose recent decision to drop out of the Republican Party fueled speculation that he's considering an independent run for the White House.
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See all 73 CommentsDem lightweights done punched themselves out: Sir Hillary %u201CIndian Princess%u201D Rodham-Clinton --- I'm not some Tammy Wynette standing by my man ... screech screech! Barack Hussein %u201CYo%u2019 Mama%u201D Obama --- I%u2019m not some Beach Blanket Dumbo, and don%u2019t tell me I%u2019m not from Selma. Dazzling Eddy --- Oh dear, my can is empty.
The clown act's over, Demwits.
that's the ticket!
c'mon CBS do better.
Put ol' fred on a treadmill
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00235
Howz that for leadership?
If Paris Hilton is his VEEP, however, I'm sure they'll win.
Dems have no candidates. If Sir Hillary does managed to buyoff enough corps, Indian outsourcing firms, and ethnocentric lobbies, it would take her ten terms in office to payoff her IOUs. I.e., she could not be anything but a corrupt prez. She is a silly and insincere person anyway. She just wants to be the first Henny-Penny in the Oval %u2026 nothing more.
Obama? What the hell is that? Hawaiian cokehead thinks he's a descendent of Alabama slaves.
Edwards? A frickin zero. A Billy Bob wanna be. Everybody knows that by now.
Dems have learned nothing. Get another candidate. America wants a leader, not an enabler. And we sure as hell do not want another Clinton or Bush %u2026 NEVER EVER AGAIN.
Posted by fredgrad2000 at 08:00 PM : Jun 29, 2007
fred - lighten up - I read that piece about the Romney trip with the dog on the roof and thought it was funny. At least it wasn't Aunt Edna in the rocking chair!
Rudy will be an easy win over Obama and Fred will have a big money source to fight but he will get Hillary on the talk circuit. Her baggage will kill her on the written circuit.
Don Jones
MyManFred
"Right away, Madame President Clinton!"
Rudy will be an easy win over Obama and Fred will have a big money source to fight but he will get Hillary on the talk circuit. Her baggage will kill her on the written circuit.
Don Jones
MyManFred
Posted by ddonjones at 10:27 PM : Jun 29, 2007
LOL RIGHT! LOL Can you say Madame President? The Fascist have been trying to beat the Clintons for years. They OWN the Southern Nazi's and the Religious Reich, that IS the present day Republican Party Sparky. The chance of them winning anything outside the stupid south is not likely... not after Iraq and the mess this nation is in. Maybe you folks should hole up for another 70 years of so...that's about how long it took to forget the LAST mess you made. Sieg Heil Bush!
Uh yeah sure. Pure propaganda.
Nice try to spin this loser.
Send him back to lobbyville, usa.
It is not only bad foreign policy you will get from these 'mainstream' candidates...it will be bad immigration policy, bad economic policy, a continuation of the IRS and the abomination known as the income tax.
The only surprise left in the race, perhaps, is whether "Pie Eating" Gore will waddle into the Democratic contest to gobble up Hillary votes.
Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich remain the only candidates outside the other parties who will make a CLEAN BREAK with the horrible policies of the past, put the Stupid Peoples' War behind us and get this nation back on track.
any he still has not officially stated his stand of any of the issues we face
doent that qualify as prejudice, or is it willful ignorance?
Failing to find a movie actor to run against the GOP, it has been decided by Howard Dean that the Democratic front-runners, Hiliary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards, should be given a "crash course" in acting and appear in several TV episodes of "Boston Legal" while one of the 3, possibly Obama, would appear as a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars".
It is hoped by Howard Dean that this would "level the playing field" until such time as Maria Shriver can convince her husband, Arnold "the Terminator" Schwazennager, do convert to Liberalism, become a Democrat, and run against the "manny-panny" GOP neocons.
SIG HEIL, BUSH!!
Hillary and Obama voted AGAINST funding for our American troops overseas ..........SO how could either one of these flaming liberals be Commander-in-Chief ??
Won't happen............
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Over about two decades of lobbying, Fred Thompson represented clients including Haitian Presidente Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Canadian-owned cable companies and a British reinsurance company.[14]
In 1982, Thompson lobbied the U.S. Congress for deregulation of the Savings and Loan (S&L) industry. His recommendations were incorporated in the Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982,[10] which allowed thrifts to invest in potentially more profitable, but riskier, ventures; eliminated interest-rate ceilings on new accounts; and granted additional government support to ailing S&Ls. This Act was a contributing factor to the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s.
In 1982, Thompson lobbied the U.S. Congress for deregulation of the Savings and Loan (S&L) industry. His recommendations were incorporated in the Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982,[10] which allowed thrifts to invest in potentially more profitable, but riskier, ventures; eliminated interest-rate ceilings on new accounts; and granted additional government support to ailing S&Ls. This Act was a contributing factor to the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s.
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The Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s was a wave of savings and loan association failures in the United States in which over 1,000 savings and loan institutions failed in "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time."[1] The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around USD$150 billion, about $125 billion of which was consequently and directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which contributed to the large budget deficits of the early 1990s. The concomitant slowdown in the finance industry and the real estate market may have been a contributing cause of the 1990-1991 economic recession.
Lots of complaining from most of them but very few answers.
We don't need another sell out like Bush has become.
Hopefully some one will step up to represent the citizens.
A lobbyist for christ sake! Just what we need as president. An actor who played the part of a senator and ended up as a lobbyist. lol!!
Posted by RandalDS at 12:51 AM : Jun 30, 2007
No wonder Bush and Cheney just screw you over and then flip you off, you supported the illegal immigration amnesty bill randal.
The Devil's Dictionary
ABSURDITY, n.
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Google it.
Google it.
Posted by RandalDS at 02:43 AM : Jul 01, 2007
Of course if he did win that at least we'd have some "Law and Order" in the White House for the first time in 8 years. Of course it'd just be in name only, but the bas*tards there now don't even try to pretend to be honest any longer. Bush and Cheney just screw us over and then flip us off.
Posted by RandalDS at 12:51 AM : Jun 30, 2007
No wonder Bush and Cheney just screw you over and then flip you off, you supported the illegal immigration amnesty bill randal.
The Devil's Dictionary
ABSURDITY, n.
A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Posted by menofoz at 01:45 AM : Jul 01, 2007
randl, never heard of the site unitl you found it, your personal live is of no interest but if that%u2019s what you like to do good for you.
It is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on
one syde of the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other
syde they are holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much
conveenyenced, for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act
as it shall suite his moode, withouten offence.
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Posted by ramos937 at 05:12 AM : Jul 01, 2007
Ramos, Democrat Party leaders were on the wrong side of the illegal immigration debate and have failed as miserably as the Republicans over the last six years. In fact they maybe worse more Republicans voted against the mass illegal immigration amnesty bill and with the help of a few Democrats that switched their votes, to defeat that horrible Bush/Kennedy bill.
Caesar Chavez opposed illegal immigration to.
The truth about Chavez is much more interesting. A third-generation American citizen from Yuma, Arizona, he was first and foremost a labor leader, as crafty and sometimes ruthless as any effective union boss must be. Today, Mexican-American educators and politicians have one simple priority: more immigration. Every warm body with a brown skin or light increases their clout. But, then and now, union leaders have the opposite need. The UFW's essential problem was the same as all other unions', straight out of Econ 101. Chavez needed to limit the supply of labor in order to drive up wages.
In his prime, Chavez fought constantly against illegal immigration.
LOL!
Posted by RandalDS
That's so true. He inspires a rage that is almost frightening. If I were not a civilised man who believes that ultimately America will wake up to just how dangerous this as*shole really is, then I'm not sure what I'd do. He is the worst president in American history by far, but still I believe my country will find a way to save itself from as*sholes like him and Cheney. This mother-fu*cker needs to go now!
Posted by RandalDS at 01:33 PM : Feb 20, 2007
When I think that the monkey currently sitting in the Oval Office is occupying the same space as some of thew greatest Americans who have ever lived it turns my stomach. In comparison to the worst of them Bush still comes off a cretin, a moron and a brain-dead idiot. If he had any brains at all he'd ban President's day altogether, because it just points out at least once a year what a pathetic excuse for a human being he really is.
Posted by RandalDS at 02:33 AM : Feb 20, 2007
Amazingly, randalds takes a u-turn, heads over to the oval office, and says o wise one Mr. President how can I help? I%u2019m on board, mass illegal amnesty must be passed and its part of your legacy as the proud American RandalDS says I want to do all I can to screw the US citizens to Mr President.
Posted by RandalDS
Amazingly, randalds takes a u-turn, heads over to the oval office, and says o wise one Mr. President how can I help? I%u2019m on board, mass illegal amnesty must be passed and its part of your legacy as the proud American RandalDS says I want to do all I can to screw the US citizens to Mr President.
Posted by menofoz at 04:59 PM : Jul 01, 2007
The other posts are mine, though this one is not. Still, while it's sweet of you to re-post them, I do have to remind you that I am straight and can not bring myself to lead into thinking you have a chance with me. Perhaps I can find a ga*y friend for you? I'd be happy to try rather then to see you continue to embarrass yourself by constantly hitting on a straight man such as myself. You're simply not my type. Sorry.
;-)
Oh and while I still think Bush is a bloodthirsty warmonger, it's not my fault that he agrees with me on this one point. You see he wants immigration reform for the cheap labor, which is the big business desire. I, on the other hand, want it so that as citizens the migrant farm workers won't be as easily exploited, which is the liberal point of view (of which I am one). Nice try though.
Posted by RandalDS
he is a dingleberry with it wrapped around his brain.
Posted by radiob at 10:59 PM : Jun 26, 2007
ARRRRGGGGUUUUGHHHH!!!!
Posted by RandalDS
The funny thing it IS going to become a Hispanic nation no matter what they do. It's as ineveitable as the sun coming up.
Posted by RandalDS at 06:36 PM : Jun 26, 2007
Nuts. Loony tunes. Whack job. Out of his mind.
And that's besides posting statistics that he just pulls out his as*s.
Posted by RandalDS at 10:57 PM : Jun 26, 2007
I know nothing of the actual facts
Posted by RandalDS
That's so true. He inspires a rage that is almost frightening. If I were not a civilised man who believes that ultimately America will wake up to just how dangerous this as*shole really is, then I'm not sure what I'd do. He is the worst president in American history by far, but still I believe my country will find a way to save itself from as*sholes like him and Cheney. This mother-fu*cker needs to go now!
Posted by RandalDS at 01:33 PM : Feb 20, 2007
In comparison to the worst of them Bush still comes off a cretin, a moron and a brain-dead idiot. If he had any brains at all he'd ban President's day altogether, because it just points out at least once a year what a pathetic excuse for a human being he really is.
Posted by RandalDS at 02:33 AM : Feb 20, 2007
Posted by RandalDS
Posted by menofoz at 05:17 PM : Jul 01, 2007
Again, while it's sweet of you to re-post some of my favorites (no I will NOT go out with you!), they're all mine except for this one. You really should check your source better then that. Otherwise, good job on re-stating my opinions! I'd forgotten to save those ones and they really hit the nail right one the head! Thanks again.
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