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...want to give me a minute to answer that?” Thompson inquired...
...Well then I’m not going to answer it.” Thompson insisted...
...candidates don’t attend the media depicts their absence as apathy. In September, for example, PBS personality Tavis Smiley hosted a debate on minority issues, which the top tier candidates, including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, Arizona Sen. John McCain, and Thompson, skipped. “Top Republicans scolded for skipping black debate,” and “Smiley: GOP ignores minorities” the next day’s headlines yelped...
...conducting debates on such narrow premises. The moderators asked Giuliani: “To what do you attribute the declining of support among Hispanics to Republicans?” They asked Romney: “Why has the Hispanic support for Republicans declined?” And they asked Thompson: “What are you going to do—what can you offer to recover the lost ground among Hispanics?” The candidates duly recited their talking points, and assured the moderators that they didn’t hate Hispanics. They broached some substantive topics?...
...Frist quickly fell by the wayside in 2006. John McCain - too much of a maverick to ever be a G.O.P. favorite, and yet a year ago the presumptive front-runner - crash-landed his campaign this summer and is only now showing signs of an unlikely resurrection. His friend Fred Thompson materialized in midsummer to catch McCain's crown, but he fizzled fast. Romney became the party's default darling, spending his way to the top of several polls. But now he too has taken hits for being slippery, and what counts as momentum has passed to Huckabee, a former Baptist...