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Once again, we don’t like to put TOO much stock in polls. Real Clear Politics has our man Fred in third place. Other polls might have him in fourth. But doesn’t SECOND PLACE in the latest McLaughlin and Assoc. poll and a 14% improvement for an UNANNOUNCED CANDIDATE sound pretty darn good?! Check it out on the Real Clear Politics blog:
A McLaughlin & Associates poll released today makes that Rasmussen poll showing Fred Thompson in second place not seem as such an outlier after all. Here are the M&A numbers (the differences in parenthesis are taken from a 4/15 poll):
Giuliani: 24 (-4)
Thompson: 18 (+5)
McCain: 17 (+1)
Romney: 7 (-1)
Gingrich: 5 (-1)
Then there’s this:
Among moderate Republicans, Thompson’s support has increased by 14 points (4% to 18%), while Giuliani’s support has decreased significantly (37% to 29%). McCain (19% to 16%) and Romney (8% to 3%) have also lost support among moderate Republicans. Giuliani shows a slight loss among conservative Republicans (25% to 22%), while Thompson (16% to 18%), McCain (14% to 16%) and Romney (8% to 10%) show slight gains.
Considering the kind of Republican Giuliani is and how this race has gone so far, you probably wouldn’t have predicted Giuliani losing the most support among moderate Republicans, especially to Thompson.
Read the rest of the article from the Real Clear Politics blog here.
Check out the latest from Fred himself in the Fred Thompson Report:
We’ve all heard by now about the plot by Muslim extremists to use jet fuel tanks and pipelines in a terror attack on JFK Airport and Queens, NY. One reason the incident is interesting is that the suspects have mostly Caribbean origins. The roots of the group arrested for plotting an attack on Fort Dix in April were European. This is obviously an international movement.
We’re still learning about the details of the JFK Airport plot, but it appears that an informant was crucial to preventing the scheme. Time and again, we’re seeing how important it is that we’re vigilant.
You remember the young electronics store clerk whose tip led the FBI to the six men plotting to murder American soldiers at Fort Dix. While copying a video tape onto DVD, he saw images of men firing guns and shouting Islamic slogans.
For a while after the story broke, he kept his head down. Now Brian Morgenstern has come forward — and his story is eye-popping.
An article in the Politico discusses the many former Bush-Cheney aides and supporters who are signing up for a potential Thompson campaign, including George P. Bush, a nephew of President Bush:
Mary Matalin, the former counselor to Vice President Cheney, says she will be advising Thompson. A campaign source says she will be an unpaid adviser. Matalin is friends with Thompson and his wife, Jeri, and her involvement began informally, the source says.
Advisers say the head of economic policy for Thompson’s fledgling team will be Lawrence B. Lindsey, who was President Bush’s first economic policy adviser and an architect of his tax cuts. Lindsey was chief economic adviser to Bush’s first presidential campaign and is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Lindsey will also have a hand in the campaign’s broader policy formulation, sources say.
The head of domestic policy is to be David M. McIntosh, a lawyer and former congressman from Indiana who was an official in the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, according to the sources. The chief foreign policy adviser will be chosen soon, the sources say.
Adding to the Bush-Cheney ties, the campaign has said that the chief operating officer will be Thomas J. Collamore, a former aide to the older Bush when he was vice president and also an official in the Reagan administration.
And Michael Turk, e-campaign director for George W. Bush’s reelection campaign, will take a leave of absence from his current job with the National Cable & Telecommunications Association to assist in getting the Thompson website off the ground. He may continue in a webmaster capacity for the campaign.
The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund reports that Fred “hit his stride” on Saturday in a speech to Virginia Republicans. Fred will “run an unorthodox campaign,” writes Fund, “that will challenge the conventional wisdom about how to run… .” According to Fund’s assessment, Fred’s speech “mixed warnings about the state of the country with optimism that the American people can overcome the challenges facing them.” More Fund:
He called on Republicans to build “a new coalition” in 2008 that avoids some of the mistakes that led to last November’s disaster. “Some of us came to drain the swamp [in Washington] and made partnership with the alligators,” he said, explaining how the GOP Congress ended up tagged as soft on spending.
Mr. Thompson said the next president should have the courage to talk straight with the American people and bluntly say that Americans will have to confront both the soaring cost of entitlements and the need to remain committed in the war on terror, even when Iraq is “in the rear-view mirror.”
Mr. Thompson’s biggest response came when he addressed immigration. “We are a nation of compassion, a nation of immigrants,” he told the crowd. “But this is our home, and whether you’re a first-generation American, a third-generation American or a brand newly minted American, this is our home and we get to decide who comes into our home.” At that, much of the crowd rose and applauded midspeech.
Fred was the featured speaker tonight at the Virginia State Republican Party dinner in Richmond:
Republican Fred Thompson, making his first appearance since his late entry into the 2008 White House race, criticized the immigration pact in Congress on Saturday and said the United States was battling threats from “forces of evil.”
In a speech at a Virginia state party dinner, the conservative former Tennessee senator and Hollywood actor made only passing reference to his presidential ambitions but took a jab at Democrats while praising limited government and lower taxes.
“There are all kinds of threats out there in America,” Thompson said, citing a disrupted plot at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York as the latest example. He said the United States must send a message to its allies about the dangers of terrorism.
“This is a battle between the forces of civilization and the forces of evil and we’ve got to choose sides,” Thompson said.
Remember this day - Friday, June 1, 2007 - when Fred took action to file papers to establish a presidential committee! Read about it here:
Republican Fred Thompson took the first formal step toward a widely expected bid for the presidency, establishing a preliminary campaign committee on Friday.
The “testing the waters” committee allows Thompson—a former Tennessee senator and actor best known for his film and television roles, including as a prosecutor on NBC’s “Law & Order”—to raise money, hire staff and gauge support without officially committing to a White House bid and without having to publicly disclose donations or expenditures.
The “Friends of Fred Thompson” committee was incorporated in papers filed with the state in Nashville, Tenn.
Here is Fred’s latest posting on ABC Radio’s Fred Thompson Report:
Well, he’s done it. Hugo Chavez was already systematically silencing criticism of his autocratic rule through threats and intimidation. Journalists have been threatened, beaten and even killed. Now he’s shut down the last opposition television networks in Venezuela and arrested nearly 200 protesters – mostly students. It’s a monumental tragedy and the Venezuelan people will pay the price for decades to come. Americans are also at risk as he funds anti-American candidates and radicals all over Latin America.
It’s equally tragic that the U.S. is in no position to provide the victims of this emerging dictator with the truth. There was a time, though, when Americans were on the front lines of pro-freedom movements all over the world. I’m talking about the “surrogate” broadcast network that included Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, often called “the Radios.”
Washington columnist and commentator Robert Novak writes about a recent dinner Fred had with journalists here in D.C.:
FRED THOMPSON sat at the end of a long table in The Monocle restaurant on Capitol Hill Tuesday night for dinner with some 20 fellow conservatives, mostly journalists. He sent two signals just hours before word spread that he is likely to enter the presidentiak race next month. First, he sounded like a man who has decided to run for President. Second, his candidacy will be something different from other Republicans, in both substance and style.
This was one of the irregular sessions of the Saturday Evening Club, which is not a club and never meets on Saturday. The name was purloined from H.L. Mencken’s Baltimore discussion club by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. Tyrrell arranges and presides over these events, always featuring a guest newsmaker — usually a Republican presidential hopeful over the past two years. Thompson’s performance Tuesday night, with his remarks off the record, helped show why many Republican insiders are ready to support him. Thompson is winning straw polls at Republican conferences and running well in polls mainly because of dissatisfaction, for varying reasons, with the three leading GOP candidates — Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney. But Thompson at the dinner table confirmed the widespread perception inside the party of his potential to be an extraordinary candidate.
We knew it was just a matter of time….
Fred Thompson, edging toward a presidential run, is giving up his day job playing a prosecutor on the TV series “Law & Order.”
Thompson asked Wednesday to be released from the show after five seasons, series creator and executive producer Dick Wolf said.
“Although he told me he has not made a firm decision about his political future, he felt that given the creative and scheduling constraints of the upcoming season,” he should leave “Law & Order,” Wolf said in a statement.
The producer lauded Thompson’s commitment to “Law & Order” and the new TV movie “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” in which the actor plays a president _ Ulysses S. Grant. The film, which Wolf produced, premiered last Sunday on HBO.
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