Chilly Posted April 12, 2007 Posted April 12, 2007 While I was reading The Onion a few weeks ago, they had a headline titled "Giuliani Runs For President of 9/11". This got me thinking about how the media is characterizing the current leading Republican candidates: - Rudy Giuliani - President of 9/11 - John McCain - President of War Veterans and Iraq - Mitt Romney - President of Flip Flopping (Kerry Jr.) - Fred Thompson - President of Law & Order These candidates have all had sound bytes used to show them in this light. Giuliani's big advantage right now seems to be 9/11 and appearing tough on crime. However, if Fred Thompson does indeed enter the race, I think it is possible he could have an advantage over all of them. Giuliani is considered extremely liberal to be a Republican candidate, while McCain's record has him losing support. Mitt Romney is considered a North East, Massachusetts elitist. This leaves Fred Thompson, who has no political history after he did not run for re-election in 2002, a decision in which he did not want to be a career politician (which will get him brownie points). However, the real advantage to me is that he has a clean slate with which to shape his candidacy. The media is characterizing him as the President of Law & Order since that is both what people know him as and the fact he has no recent political history. While Mr. Thompson would be behind in fund raising by a large amount to other Republican candidates, he has a clean slate with which to make himself the most appealing candidate to GOP voters, the same voters who seem disillusioned with the candidates, as evidenced by Thompson, as the "President of Law & Order", receiving 2nd place in the latest GOP poll without doing any campaigning whatsoever. I think that Thompson is in a unique position, and if he is smart about his candidacy, can more than make up for the fund raising advantage with the image that he makes for himself.
molson_golden2002 Posted April 13, 2007 Posted April 13, 2007 What about Newt? Ya, the GOP race is real interesting. The candidates all look so flawed, but any one of them can beat the Hillary, IMO. Rudy might have gained fame from 9-11 but I hope there will be more focus on what he did as a prosecuters: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/115...ses_Glance.html The guy just seems to have real smarts
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