There's interesting movement this week in the National Journal's Republican Presidential rankings, with Rudy Giuliani moving up to #1 and John McCain moving down to #2. Despite citing McCain's "great stump manner," plus the "biggest and best campaign," National Journal lowers McCain because "it's hard for us to call McCain the front-runner any longer when 80 percent of the voting base routinely chooses someone else." In addition, they cite "[r]eal skepticism...growing among the media too."Oh, by the way, former Virginia governor Jim "Drove the State into the Fiscal Ditch" Gilmore moves up from nowhere to #8. According to the National Journal:
A good first quarter could bump him up a few slots and give him some of the free media he craves. And he has the Virginia business chops to find the cash.
As I've said many times, I'd love to see Jim Gilmore as the Republican nominee for President in 2008. The slogan: "He drove Virginia into the ditch, wait 'til you see what he'll do to America!" Ha.
P.S. I still don't see how gay rights and abortion supporter Giuliani can hold social conservatives and "values voters" in the Republican camp. Should be interesting if he actually gets the nomination...
The GOP loves to hate Hollywood, but loves to embrace them when they feel a true Reaganite emerging.
I think Thompson can prove competetive in swing states, and even worse for us.. energizing to the GOP base.
Face it, they are down. They party is in dissary and their candidates aren't exactly platform material.
They are sucking it up right now and going for a socially liberal candidate. Wow. That's why you see in just the first polls Fred Thompson is included in he's almost 3rd or 4th.
Even ahead of Romney. The guy isn't even a declared candidate and in some ways doing better than Clark or Gore in comparison to our undeclared candidates.
Even Tom Delay is saying he's waiting for a "leader" to emerge. I am starting to think..
That's Fred Thompson.
The dirt will come out about his personal life and business dealings, the NY press will pile on him, the pics of him in drag will be continually displayed, the fundamentalists will go after him for his socially liberal beliefs -- and then watch him lose his infamous temper in public. It's inevitable.
Actually I think that drmontoya's Fred Thompson scenario is plausible -- though I find the idea of an actor who played the president in the movies actually becoming president to be downright creepy...