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Some southerners take their love of fellow southerners too far

Page history last edited by Mike 12 years, 2 months ago

Some southerners take their love of fellow southerners too far.

Reasons to agree

  1. Zach Wamp on Fred Thompson. “He is from Lawrenceburg Tennessee so he is innately conservative. You don’t grow up in his skin Lawrenceburg Tennessee without having traditional family social conservative values deep in your DNA.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZheKLJuLOQ
  2. "it's his accent that tells conservatives he's one of their own." - Elizabeth Wilner, Fred Thompson works the thrall of the drawl, Jun 5, 2007 07:20 PM EST
  3. "His home base is the home base of the Republican Party (Tennessee)," says GOP pollster Whit Ayres, who polled for Thompson's fellow Tennessee Republicans Sen. Lamar Alexander and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and is unaffiliated with any 2008 presidential candidate.
  4. "Thompson's drawl is music to the ears of the party base, whose unhappiness with two of the three top-tier contenders is largely captured in four words: New York and Massachusetts." Fred Thompson works the thrall of the drawl, By ELIZABETH WILNER | 6/5/07 7:20 PM EDT
  5. "In presidential politics, especially in the pre-primary days when candidates are still fleshing out their profiles, geography is shorthand for ideology. If you're from the South, you must be conservative, at least until proven otherwise." Fred Thompson works the thrall of the drawl, By ELIZABETH WILNER | 6/5/07 7:20 PM EDT
  6. "That presumption held for Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, both of whom were assumed to be more moderate than the rest of the Democratic pack in 1992 and 2004. It provided cover for Gov. George W. Bush with the Republican base in 2000, even though Bush's Texas record and presidential campaign platform hinted at less-than-orthodox views on education and immigration." Fred Thompson works the thrall of the drawl, By ELIZABETH WILNER | 6/5/07 7:20 PM EDT
  7. "It holds for Thompson now. Almost the only thing that distinguishes his Senate record from that of Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) is the sound of the voice votes." Fred Thompson works the thrall of the drawl, By ELIZABETH WILNER | 6/5/07 7:20 PM EDT
  8. "If the South has been overrepresented in the White House lately, claiming three of the last five occupants, one reason is the thrall of the drawl." Fred Thompson works the thrall of the drawl, By ELIZABETH WILNER | 6/5/07 7:20 PM EDT
  9. Politicians who aren't from the region want to be. The current occupant of the White House downplayed his New England connections and used his Texas twang to defeat brainiac Vice President Al Gore, whose Washington wonkiness made you forget he was from Tennessee even though he based his campaign there. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has been known to amp up the Arkansas in her voice when addressing African-American audiences.
  10. Running as the Southern -- read: conservative -- candidate might be enough to win the Republican primary, but if Thompson does run, he'll have to both be of the South and transcend it if he's to help his party widen the footprint it was left with after the 2006 midterm elections.

 

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