Showing posts with label Republican Debate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republican Debate. Show all posts

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Thompson Strategically Avoids Sept 5 Republican Debate


The next Republican debate is scheduled for Wednesday September 5th. Thompson’s official campaign announcement for President will occur on a webcast that can be viewed by all on September 6th.

Captain’s Quarters calls the strategy brilliant for it places Thompson in a position of overshadowing the Republican debaters while simultaneously not have to respond to candidate retorts in which Thompson may not be prepared for as yet.

I agree with Capt. Ed, Thompson’s late start means he has not acquired a huge campaign war chest comparable to some of the other Republican front runners. A gaffe from Thompson just before his official campaign announcement could be politically suicidal even before the official work begins.

Capt. Ed points out also that even after entering the campaign fray, Thompson cannot afford political misstatements. Every word in his early stages must be weighed in order that Thompson does not shoot himself in the foot.

Fred’s campaign reputation took a little hit when Thompson released Tom Collamore who was to be the Campaign Manager designate and replaced him with Spencer Abraham. The
rub with Abraham is that anti-jihadist journalist Debbie Schlussel has exposed Abraham as pro-Arab with a little cozying up to Islamists. This information frankly concerned me about Fred Thompson when I first read it.

Evidently it concerned Fred as well for Abraham’s campaign involvement was downsized to campaign advisor.

Fred Thompson then went out and got friend
Bill Lacey to run the upcoming Thompson campaign for President. It appears Randy Enwright will be the number two guy in the campaign hierarchy followed by Spencer Abraham. Linda Rozett has recently departed from an apparent spokesperson position for the Thompson Campaign.

Lacey and Enwright certainly are additions resulting from the image stains of Spencer Abraham (or Jihad Spencer as Schlussel calls him).

With the staff apparently solidified, the nuts and bolts of acquiring delegates from State Primaries and Caucuses will now begin with a September sixth webcast announcement the next day after the Republican debate in New Hampshire.

Saturday, May 05, 2007

First Republican Debate for President 2008


Chris Matthews is the moderator for the first Republican debate. Frankly I must have had my head in the sand for I did not know a debate occurred. Oh well.

This was a Republican debate right? What idiot had Chris Matthews moderate the questions to potential Presidential candidates?

From
Urban Elephants I understand nearly all the questions were asked to make all the candidates look bad instead of debating issues of interest for Republicans to choose their candidate. What is that?

At the next Democratic Party debate Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin should moderate and formulate the questions. How do you think the Left would react to that?

The
San Jose Mercury News extrapolates a theme; however makes zero mention of Chris Matthews as moderator. MercuryNews.com reports the theme of the debate as harking back to the ideals of President Reagan and almost no mention of President Bush.

Outside the Beltway gives a pretty good round up of the debate.

Notably Newt Gingrich (announced running) and Fred Thompson (unannounced running) were not participating in the Republican debate. That was a pity since personally I have the highest interest in those two for the nomination.