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Talk me off of this ledge (UPDATE: Will Huck be dropping out tomorrow ?)

So the California director for teh Ferd! campaign wrote a nice note to all the Cali Fredheads, including me, this afternoon. It was well-written and serious, and she sounds like someone who (like me) was all into Fred the Idea Man. Now let me excerpt a couple paragraphs for you here, emphasis mine:

Judging from the responses I've received from so many of you, you, like many of us who were with the Thompson campaign, are conservatives without an active candidate at this point. Fred remains our candidate. Many of us simply cannot, on principle, support any of the other candidates running. Many of you have told me you will stay home and not vote in the primary. Others of you have said you will vote for Fred, whether he is running or not, hoping for a brokered convention where Fred may be the one person upon which folks can agree.


Fred Thompson has not endorsed any of the candidates. California for Thompson has not endorsed any candidate. We do not seek to instruct voters how to vote as we have no authority to do so. That said, there are pockets of conservatives and federalists in various regions that have banded together to vote for Fred in the primary to hope to win certain congressional districts for Fred (which would send Fred's delegates – who are truly conservative – to the convention to speak a conservative message while shaping the outcome of the convention). These are conservatives that want representation in the GOP and are taking action to make their voices heard and their votes counted. The Reagan coalition is not just a concept of the past, and as Fred said, this is truly a battle for the heart and soul of the Republican party. We are in an interesting place in the history of the Republican party. This is, once again, a time for choosing.

She goes on to quote from Reagan's Time For Choosing speech, which gives me goosebumps.

You guys know I'll be perfectly happy with Romney and he was my second choice all along. I think he's a good man and competent, and I do think he's sincerely conservative. But Eeyorepundit's been posting polls all day and, friends, it don't look good for My Man Mitt. It don't look good for the G.O.P.

Ferd's name is still on the ballot. I'm pretty close to saying "Let's go."

"Why not?"

UPDATE: I ain't heard no fat lady! Well, maybe I have. But I'm gonna think about this.

BTW: I've gotten many google hits this week looking for "Vice President Lindsey Graham" or "Lindsey Graham as running mate", that kind of thing. (Here's why they're ending up here.) Apparently the prospect is weighing on people's mind.

AFTERTHOUGHT: Here's Huck still artlessly slamming and smearing Romney. If Huck drops out Monday, as I expect he will, his people go to McCain. But if not, if he stays in, Romney could edge this thing out because of ol' Christian Leader.

Wouldn't that be tragic.

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Posted by SeeDubya on February 2, 2008 12:43 AM
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I will still vote for Fred in my primary on Tuesday if he is still on the ballot and if not then I will write him in

Posted by Mass. Fredhead on February 2, 2008 2:07 AM

Mitt the Flipper may be somewhat better then McCain, but not much.

I’ve had it with voting for the lesser of two evils and in the General, I’m writing in Fred Thompson’s name. He won’t win, but I won’t stay home and sit this one out.

I think it would be really cool if Fred got millions of write in votes. Then, when Hildabeast or Osama Obama are in the process of wrecking the country, we can either start a new party and destroy the republican party, Or take back the party from the RINO commie set.

If McCain somehow sleazes his way in, the party will collapse in any case by 2010.

Just another of my twisted ideas. :)

Superb image from the Wild Bunch, one of my favorite films. Maybe what follows in the movie is an idea of how to deal with illegal immigration.

Mike—ehhh, careful, people might not get that you’re joking there.

Good way to deal with the cartels, though. As I said in another post recently, I didn’t realize that “Extreme Prejudice” was actually a documentary…

For weeks, I have been pointing out to fellow conservatives that McCain is as far from a conservative as Hillary, who also voted for the use of force against Saddam. But somehow, I feel that I am living in some alternate reality as I watch the poll numbers for McCain. Are Republicans really that far removed from the reality that is McCain’s Senate record? Do they only see a man walking off a plane in 1973 after five years of captivation? Is this the twilight zone I have found myself in and everyone else can’t see the demon standing behind them who is going to destroy totally the party that I have been involved in since Ronald Reagan?

What has happened to the American voter? Have we become more like the German’s who put Hitler into power because he brought them pride in being German after their terrible defeat in WWI and their economy being in the pits so long? Was the desire for economic stabilty so great that they were willing to put a mad man in office? Are we going down that path? We so want to have a military hero in office once again that we are willing to pick someone who has turned his back on American POWs in Vietnam, voted consistantly for liberal agendas, considered switching parties in 2001, joined arms with Democrats to thumb his nose at conservative values and force his liberal viewpoints on hus? I remember when John Cornyn tried to put in the Shamnesty Bill that all illegals convicted of a felony cwould be denied the Z-visa, which gave them an immediate right to stay. McCain’s reaction to Cornyn was to tell Conrny “fuck you”. My guess is once McCain take the oval office, that will be exactly what he tells conservative voters who put him there when they try to hold his feet to the fire.

Posted by retire05 on February 2, 2008 12:12 PM

I came from a family of Dems; conservative Dems but Dems. I watched “The Speech” 10/64 and voted for Barry in 64. I voted for Ronnie in 66 and again in 70. Then in 1980 + 1984.

I am amazed at how Ronnie’s party could produce a lefty like GWB followed by another lefty like John Murtha I mean John Mc Cain! To quote and parapharase Ronnie “… the party left me!” Went from Conservative to Liberal in just 7 years! Had you told me in 00 how far left Karl and GWB would move the GOP I would have asked what you were somking. But here we are with a liberal in the White House and another liber as our man for 08!

Posted by Jo macDougal on February 2, 2008 2:18 PM

The GOP is now the party of the New Deal. With a President who believes the government is the solution to all problems; and when he can not find a problem for a new government program he invents one. Now it will run for the next President a man who believes the “Blame America First” approach of the old Dem party. I wonder what FDR thinks of the GOP taking over his programs and policies? Of course nobody cares whar Ronnie thinks about all the lies Johnny Mc has been telling about him. Nor the lies Johnny tells about Mitt! Ronnie is dead; long live FDR!

Posted by Rod Stanton on February 2, 2008 4:02 PM

Jo and Rod, excuse me, but the last time I checked, it is the House/Senate that passes laws and sets expenditures. Sorry if I have some doubts about your conservatism (in other than polite societies, you would be called trolls). Would you not be more content over at DailyKos where you can really complain about Bush?

Posted by retire05 on February 2, 2008 7:17 PM
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