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One day after Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson stopped by Chicago for a fundraiser, Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani visited Chicago for a fundraiser.
Conventional wisdom holds that Giuliani is the man to beat for the GOP nomination, but Fred Thompson has his supporters too. "I think he has a homespun quality that is appealing.... [H]e comes across as a guy that is very comfortable in his own skin and I think he has a presence about him that is very presidential," local political consultant and commentator Dan Proft told CBS2. As if that weren't enough, Hillary Clinton swung through town yesterday as well. With Barack Obama still raising big bucks and digging in in Iowa, and the GOP looking for its standard-bearer, Hillary is taking a page out of Richard Nixon's playbook, attending a fundraiser by Republicans for Hillary, which was expected to raise $250,000. Whether or not letting the opposition anoint her as the inevitable nominee is good strategy remains to be seen.
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I've never heard of Dan Proft, but he sure knows how to make himself sound like a vacuous moron. That quote of his is too stoopid to satirize.
By the way, you forgot to mention that Obama is as good as out of the race. I mean, what kind of idiot doesn't wear his Patriotic Flag Pin so that voters know whose side he's on?
Republicans for Hillary is a classic case of frenemies. They are putting her up on the pedestal so they can kick it out from underneath her during the general election.
Vince Foster said ten days before his suicide, "In Washington, ruining people is considered sport". Check mate.
For once I agree with Spav1.
Seeing as Hillary is a pro-business Republican in reality, if not in name, this makes perfect sense.