Hang Right Politics

Posted by Kathy on July 20th, 2007 in Fred Thompson

Yesterday I asked “where’s Fred?” and I wasn’t alone in my question. Others across the ’sphere were asking the same thing, losing patience with our unmoving undeclared candidate:

There have been a few scattered reports that Thompson supporters are getting tired of waiting, getting edgy over it all, or otherwise are wondering what the hold up might be? I think there are some excellent reasons why waiting doesn’t materially hurt Thompson, the impatience of some of his supporters aside.

Here’s Blogs for Fred Thompson’s answer:

If we are supporters of his, shouldn’t we at least trust that he has the good sense to run his campaign the way it is best to be run? I, for one, am perfectly willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he and his team have a strategy. It appears to be a good one thus far, too, because he is up in all the polls.

Remember this, his is a rather new campaign, so Thompson’s bank is not as full as that of his rivals who have been collecting contributions for well over a year already not to mention that our man is still in the midst of assembling his national machine — not something that can be done overnight. Thompson’s strategy has to be one of early conservation of funds and careful organization in the mean time… Again, the polls say he is doing fine.

So, if we are to trust that our man is the right man, we also have to trust that his strategy is an efficacious one.

So, I say, let us trust our man.

The article points out that McCain and Romney are both out spending and campaigning and Thompson is polling better than them. Perhaps his strategy is better.

Meanwhile here’s a place where you can donate to Thompson.

And with the recent Harris poll, Thompson’s strategy seems to be working. You can’t argue with success. (Well, you can, but then you’d be a democrat.)