Thompson's absence noticed in N.H.

[brooklynite]

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Mitt Romney was in Michigan, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada and then went back to Michigan. Rudy Giuliani visited Florida, Michigan, South Carolina, Alabama, Washington and New Hampshire. John McCain went from Michigan to Iowa to New Hampshire.

But where was Fred, as in Fred Thompson?

Besides participating in his first presidential debate in Michigan last Tuesday, Thompson was missing from the campaign trail. The former Tennessee senator and star of NBC's "Law & Order" was scheduled to be in New Hampshire this weekend, but canceled.

...snip...

Thompson was supposed to visit a fundraising breakfast for Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta on Friday. But on Thursday afternoon, Guinta's campaign e-mailed guests to let them know it wasn't happening. The note cited "scheduling conflicts for the senator."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071014/ap_on_el_pr/where_s_fred_1

Perhaps he's waiting for his agent to deliver the script?

[TwilightGardener]

1. "Scheduling conflicts" = naptime.

[beberocks]

2. Bet he's finding that campaigning is hard work.

With his medical problems, I'll be surprised if he makes it to January.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Posted on this story yesterday. Grandpa Fred is moving kind of slow, all right...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3609440&mesg_id=3609440

[kestrel91316]

4. Fred's probably already been guaranteed the nomination by

Diebold, so he doesn't have to bother with that campaigning nonsense.

[jacksonian]

5. looks to me a hit piece planted by McCain people

seems John's trying to make his move in NH with the "knows NH primaries" meme.