Cue the Curtis Mayfield, baby..."Ah, ha...Freddie's (campaign is) dead, that's what I said"...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Lagging In Fundraising And Begging For Applause

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/02/lagging-in-fundraising-an_n_66882.html

Fred Thompson's campaign got off to a rocky start this week with a mediocre fundraising report and a lackluster reception from an Iowa audience.

Dan Morain of The Los Angeles Times reports:

In an indication that his presidential campaign is off to a slow start financially, Republican Fred Thompson raised $8 million in the third quarter of 2007, which included his first month as a declared candidate.

Combined with the money he raised while he considered joining the race, Thompson has gathered $11.5 million for the year, putting him a distant fourth in the GOP money race behind Mitt Romney, Rudolph W. Giuliani and Sen. John McCain.


And the AP notes:

Speaking Monday to about 250 people in Marshalltown, Thompson had to point out that he was finished and it was OK for people to applaud.

"At least I got some applause," he said. "I had to ask for it."

In Cedar Falls, a country singer got the crowd rocking and clapping, but the room cooled as Thompson spoke.

"He's a good communicator, but I'm still looking," said Brad Niemeyer, of Fort Dodge.

[Bicoastal]

1. "But...but...but...

...but I'm a MOVIE star! Why won't they love me?"

[Lint Head]

2. The Creature from the Black Lagoon walked away from the

villa in the Amazon. As the biologist said to the man, "Don't shoot! Let him go." They had removed his gills. The biologist knew that
the creature would drown trying to return to his only home, the dark waters of the lagoon. :dem:

[Trisket-Bisket]

3. Was It ever alive?

What a loser.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. He was the "Great White Hope" for the GOP for about 5 minutes.

Lots of rhetoric about his being "Reaganesque." Part of the reason that people have funerals is so that when the last shovel full of dirt gets tamped down on top of the grave, you accept the fact that you've laid that person to rest. The GOP can't do that. They have an unhealthy compulsion to keep digging the Gipper up, over and over and over again. For about five minutes they thought that Fred could be Ronnie. It's been a steady downhill slide into the crapper ever since he confessed that he "doesn't go to church that often." Evangelicals hate that kind of talk. Evangelicals vote, and they vote "red state"...unless the candidate "doesn't go to church that often."

The "church" remark was Fred's "Macaca Moment."

:patriot:

[AtomicKitten]

5. But he's so damn good-looking.

For a wide-mouth bass.

[Cha]

6. The idiot should never have

even thought about it..what does that say for his ego and what Was he thinking?.. that the republicons had zip so he should get in and offer zilch?