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Fred Thompson: Lazy as charged
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Dec 19, 2007 01:25pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, December 19, 2007 07:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By: Roger Simon
Dec 19, 2007 01:35 PM EST
WAVERLY, Iowa — When is retail politics not retail politics? When candidates refuse to get off their big buses and go do it.
Fred Thompson rolled into this small town on the Cedar River in north-central Iowa on a giant brown bus Tuesday. He also had a van, an entourage of guys with earpieces and a press aide.
Thompson’s public schedule said: “Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Waverly and Drops by Waverly Democrat.”
It was not a bitterly cold day — temperatures were somewhere in the high 30s — and doing a downtown walk would have been a perfectly normal political event.
Such walks are staples of retail politics, the kind of politics conducted in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, where people expect to meet the candidates one on one and not just at rallies and speeches. |
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