What Is Right About Fred Thompson, The Series

Lone Star Times ^ | December 5, 2007

[2ndDivisionVet]

As I noted here, Fred Thompson’s supporters and campaign are missing golden opportunity after golden opportunity while they focus on tearing down other candidates instead of building Fred up. Fred continues to put forth a very conservative agenda and no one is hearing about it because Fredheads aren’t telling them. I’ll try to help them again, gratis.

Take, for instance, Fred’s skepticism of the latest National Intelligence Estimate, the one that contradicts the idea that Iran is working on nuclear weapons.

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said Tuesday he’s skeptical of a new report that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program four years ago and questioned the United States’ ability to gather intelligence.

“I hope that they are accurate with this assessment, but right now, I don’t have the confidence in our own intelligence capabilities to make that assessment,” the former Tennessee senator said after speaking to dozens of supporters at a gun shop in this early voting state. “One thing that crosses my mind is that this is information that the Iranians have put out, that they want us to kind of relax a little bit.”

That, my friends, is great stuff. Best I can tell, no other candidate has said anything approaching that level of skepticism. Wouldn’t you want your friends and neighbors to know about that instead of your latest opinion about how bad another guy is? He continues:

Thompson’s remarks seemed to echo President Bush, who said Iran remained dangerous and the report should be a warning sign that the nation had a weapons program.

“Nowadays they can have a peaceful nuclear program and it’s very, very easy once they get to that level to turn a screw or two and make it into a weapons program. It’s a thin line,” Thompson said.

Again, great stuff. Tell someone! And he has more:

He also said the U.S. needed to strengthen the military, even during peace time, and not wait for another terrorist attack.

“After Iraq and Afghanistan are in our rearview mirrors, we’re still going to have the necessity of having a very strong military,” he said. “We don’t have to wait until they’re on the coast of South Carolina or somewhere to get our attention.”

Dang skippy, we can’t wait for them to get our attention. Fredheads, listen up! You can’t wait for people to start believing your fantasies about other candidates being evil! Tell them about your guy!

[trisham]

Wow. You’re good. :)

[lesser_satan]

Thanks. Feel free to copy and paste.

[trisham]

Thanks. :)

[Old Sarge]

JV, what you saw was the frustration I and others have come to feel about the enthusiasm, to the point of aggression, in which Fredheads have engaged others. LS was kind enough to explain a little of the back-story behind that agression in FReepmail.

So. With all this behind us, let’s press on with the work at hand: putting forth positive reasons for our party’s candidates, before one is chosen for us by the Left.