With Mitt Romney pulling up shop in South Carolina it leaves only three candidates with a shot at taking at that state. Huckabee, McCain and Fred. So now Rick Moran and the rest of us FredHead bloggers are asking for a bit of help:
Fred Thompson’s campaign is once again at a critical juncture and again I am showing my support for the candidate of my choice by organizing a Blogburst in hopes that we can raise the funds necessary for Fred’s campaign to be competitive.
This time, it’s South Carolina where Fred is staking all in hopes of a breakthrough victory. A clinical analysis of the GOP race for President shows that it is still anyone’s ballgame. Rasmussen’s most recent 4 day rolling average has Fred in 4th at 12%, ahead of Giuliani and just 9 points out of the lead held by Mike Huckabee at 22%.
~~~ I realize that many bloggers who support Fred have been hitting their readers hard for donations recently – especially since Fred’s campaign has set as a goal raising $540,000 by tomorrow in order to finance his ad campaign. As of Thursday morning, the effort has realized $420,000 towards that goal.
My hope is that once again, speaking with one voice and calling on our readers to dig deep, we can duplicate our success from December’s blogburst, putting Fred way over the top and give the campaign a rocket powered boost into South Carolina and beyond.
We’ve done it before and we can do it again. If you’re a blogger, please participate in this Blogburst for Fred by asking your readers to donate. If you haven’t already, join Jim Lynch’s The Marblehead Regiment and add your blog to his blogroll.
Man the oars and start pulling for Fred. The hour is late and the need is great. Time to pony up if we want to see a true conservative in the White House next November.
He is up to $430,000 grand of this writing, 110 more is needed by the end of the day tomorrow. We can do this. Fred can do it. If 2,750 of us pony up 40 bucks each we can reach that goal.
If your a blogger on not on this massive list of supporters for Fred please leave a comment with a link to your blog and I will add you asap.
While your at it, check out Fred’s latest policy paper where he lays out his plan to reduce spending:
This issue gives me an opportunity to let you know about Fred’s latest policy paper. Fred Thompson has become the only Republican candidate with a substantial plan to reduce federal spending. One element is earmark reform:
1. Provide President with Line-Item Veto Authority. Congress can provide this authority without a Constitutional amendment. Such authority would better control spending and prevent the use of public funding for wasteful earmarks.
2. Direct Agencies to Ignore “Soft” Earmarks. “Soft” earmarks are those included in Congressional report language, but not in actual legislation. Failure to include such earmarks in the bill language itself makes it easier for Members of Congress to hide their earmarks and prevents the full House and Senate from voting on them. Federal agencies must not fund these “soft” earmarks unless they otherwise meet agency standards for a funding award.
3. Propose Legislation on Earmark Procedures. Promote greater transparency by urging Congress to approve legislation that requires the posting of all earmarks on the Internet
Read the entire paper. A Fred Thompson administration would work to end wasteful spending and force Washington to live within its means.
See author page
So you believe that a former lobbyist will be the one true candidate most likely to end wasteful spending? Why change now? Because he put it on paper? Really?
That is truly the oxymoron to defeat all oxymorons.
Fred has always been for cutting wasteful government spending, always. You talk about him being a “former lobbyist” as it that was a defining occupation of his career. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has had a long and distinguished career, mostly as a non-lobbyist. Besides, “lobbyist” doesn’t equate to “a lover of wasteful spending”, it means an advocate of this or that interest.
Do you think a guy who voted against Bush’s tax cuts and was caught in Keating Five scandal is more likely? Is the former preacher who used to love raising taxes and is now pandering in Michigan with new proposed welfare programs is more likely?
Fred never lies. I can also tell how he thinks by reading what he has written in the past. He is a clear thinking, serious man who will do what he says he will do. The only fair thing to criticize him for is the lack of strong executive experience. All the rest of “lazy, dead, no fire in the belly, trophy wife, lobbyist, friend of Spencer Abraham” are not serious points. Huckabee is a denier of his own record, McCain with his participation in Keating Five and his refusals to admit that his Immigration Plan is Amnesty (because they pay a fine, what a ridiculous idea) cannot be trusted. Romney has changed his entire position set like a snake changing it’s skin, although I would expect him to favor reasonable controls over wasteful spending because he is a proven businessman, and that’s why he is my second choice. I trust Rudy to cut taxes because he has shown he stands for cost control, but I’m not a fan of his stand on illegal immigration.
40 bucks on Fred! will get you $10,000 if he wins the White House. Intrade.com
Although the odds are 250-1 right now, I am holding off until they hit 500-1
Then I will put a 20 dollar bill on him.
After that I will start hoping for a multiple simultaneous mid-air collision involving ALL of the other candidates.
I think that is his best chance.
Fred Thompson is little more electable than Dennis Kuchinich. His slow motion campaign hasn’t caught fire and won’t. Who can we blame? Fred Thompson. He had a constituency primed and ready to go, then let it peter away in the wake of his lack of energy and seeming boredom with the whole process.
Banjo, so? But do you like his ideas? Or are you his official campaign critic with a highly original view of why his campaign may be in trouble?
As part of this blogger outreach, I encourage all of you FredHeads to show your support for him on http://www.fittobepres.com. His ratings are quickly catching up to McCain, who is in the lead. Please check out this site and spread the word to other FredHeads!
I’ve been suggesting that people take their lunches to work tomorrow and donate that $10-$20 they would have spent on lunch to Fred.
Jan 10, 2007 8:49 pm the red truck is holding $524 thousand and rising. After the debate it will rise higher and we still have until 11pm Friday.
Heaven forbid a Republican vote against a GW Bush bill I guess. Have you read why McCain voted against the Tax Cuts? He wanted more for the middle class, why is that a bad thing?
And the Keating Five mess was a huge mistake which he has admitted. When he surived it he then spent ten years passing legislation that you now scream is preventing free speech.
Fred on the other hand spent decades as a Washington palm greaser and he reported millions of dollars of income as a lobbyist between 1975-1993. If you are impressed by the whole persona of a red pick up truck driver and “good ol’ country lawyer” then I have some bridges up for sale. He is as slick as the belly of an eel who a former opponent called Gucci-wearing, Lincoln-driving, Perrier-drinking, Grey Poupon-spreading millionaire Washington special-interest lobbyist.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-06-06-thompson-resume_N.htm
If you are happy voting for a lobbyist for President then vote for a lobbyist for president. I will vote for a War Hero instead.