Is there room in the Republican clown car?
You know the Republican presidential offerings are crap if a guy who hasn’t even announced he's running is higher in the polls.
From Angus Reid Global Monitor: - "Fred Thompson is barely leading in the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in the United States, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. 28 per cent of respondents would support the actor and former Tennessee senator in a 2008 primary.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani is a close second with 27 per cent, followed by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney with 10 per cent, and Arizona senator John McCain also with 10 per cent. Support is lower for former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Kansas senator Sam Brownback.[..]"
I think it's funny how the GOP spends so much time bashing Hollywood .. but give them any tired ol' actor and they’ll want to make him president.
Of course we have yet to see how Thompson will hold up once he actually enters the campaign and has to compete directly with other candidates. How will he do once the blood-letting gets going good?
So far, Fred has the allure of the new kid in town .. GOP voters already know the things they don’t like about the other guys. Thompson's rise to the top pretty much tells us how the other GOP hopefuls have failed to fire up the imagination of the party they want to lead.
Odd that all the cash Mitt Romney has pulled in hasn’t given him more than 10% .. and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback might as well just fold up the tents with their 2%. McCain is still on a steady downward spiral.
Republicans are ripe for the next idol worship cult .. they'll be susceptible to that GOP grade-B actor siren call ...
My bet is that Thompson will get the GOP nomination.
Sorry to say, but as bad as it looks for the Republican field, I still can't forget how easily the Democrats can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Especially when it seems like the tiny edge we have comes from a lot of negative attitudes about the GOP guys rather than genuine excitement about someone in our own clown car.
We do know one thing -- Bush will leave skid marks as he tears out of the Oval Office .. the happiest guy to leave since James Buchanan handed the Civil War over to Lincoln.
My prediction is that he'll hit the bottle and rarely be seen outside of Crawford, TX.
<trying to imagine George Bush on the lecture circuit>
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
