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Excellent pickup for former Senator Fred Thompson. Straight from the Hill:
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is planning to endorse former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) when Thompson announces his entry into the presidential race Thursday.
A spokesman for Cochran said the senator will support Thompson, but won’t release a statement expressing his support until after Thompson announces his bid.
In endorsements from sitting U.S. senators, Thompson now has passed Giuliani and possibly Romney (depends if Larry Craig’s endorsement still counts). I doubt anyone will catch McCain in that race, however.
UPDATE: I seriously encourage all of you to check out Thompson’s declaration speech video on www.fred08.com. Even if you hate everything he stands for, I still would advise you to watch it right here.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I’m not surprised that a former Senator is able to pick up lots of Senate endorsements, just like Rudy has been endorsed by pretty much every big city Republican mayor in the country if you look at his list.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
“big city Republican mayors”
There still are some?
September 5th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Yup.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
To the best of my knowledge no city with more than 500,000 people had a Republican Mayor.
I’m wondering what city you’re thinking of JS?
September 5th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hey, Fresno California has Alan Autry as their Republican mayor, better known as “Bubba Skinner” from In the Heat of the Night!” Bubba ruled!
He’s endorsed McCain though.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Fresno’s fewer than 500,000 but point taken.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:07 am
Have you watched the Fred video?
What exactly is his platform? He spends the whole time talking about the problems we face but he doesn’t say anything specific about what he will do. Instead he speaks so generally that you’d think he just started thinking about this a couple of months ago.
If he hasn’t been developing a platform for the past 6 months then what has he been doing? Not raising money. Not managing his own campaign. Not working on his soundbites or stump speeches. I really don’t know what he has been doing because he doesn’t sound more polished, he doesn’t have more ideas and he barely has more money.
I think the “Audacity of Pessimism” he talks about will get him as far as the Audacity of Hope has gotten Barack Obama.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:18 am
I just saw Fred’s webcast. It was awesome. Even though he is my second favorite candidate, I think that he may just do it.
September 6th, 2007 at 7:44 am
[...] Cochran, Senator from Mississippi, has endorsed Fred Thompson: In endorsements from sitting U.S. senators, Thompson now has passed Giuliani and possibly Romney [...]
September 6th, 2007 at 9:10 am
His platform, DSkinner, is to ask Kavon to allow formatting on this board so I can use subscript and superscript to write out his name, and I for one can rally behind that.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Fred’s webcast was good, and I like what he has to say. I just worry that he doesn’t really have what it takes to run a very difficult race, and I worry that he has very little executive experience. These issues are very important to me.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Emtee,
Legitimate questions. That’s what he has to prove to all those skeptical.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Tommy, do you know if this file has been transcribed? Unless it is closed caption (almost none of campaign videos is), I won’t be able to watch it.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:34 am
SGS,
Here is a short summary. I will try to find a full transcription when I get home tonight.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0907/The_Fred_webcast.html
September 6th, 2007 at 11:30 am
The fact that Thompson has more Senatorial endorsments does not surprise me, after all he was a member of the world’s most exclusive club. Also, my 2 cents about the debate; McCain and Huckabee helped themselves, Rudy didn’t hurt himself, and Romney stumbled on Iraq
September 7th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Tommy, didn’t have the chance to say thanks, so, thanks!
September 12th, 2007 at 9:05 am
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