To: My Favorite Headache
Thompson and Ridge are mysteries.
Highly regarded yet neither able to deliver the electoral votes from their states.
Thompson is a likely future Senator. I don't remember...was Thompson a Rino?
45 posted on
11/04/2004 4:25:28 PM PST by
xzins
(Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
To: xzins
was Thompson a Rino NO. A lot of GOP Governors copied his success.
55 posted on
11/04/2004 4:29:42 PM PST by
12 Gauge Mossberg
(I Approved This Posting - Paid For By Mossberg, Inc.)
To: xzins
I don't remember...was Thompson a Rino? Not quite a RINO, but definitely not very conservative. I can say three good things about him:
- He's the guy why got welfare reform really off the ground (W-2 was pretty much the model for the national welfare reform).
- School choice wouldn't exist without him.
- He's the consummate wheeler-and-dealer. He connived a Pubbie majority in the State Senate no less than 3 times by getting 'RATs to leave the chamber; unfortunately, then-state Senate Pubbie "leader" Mike Ellis (who Trent Cave-a-Lott modeled his tenure as Senate Pubbie "Leader" after) handed it right back in the next election by throwing away a different district.
Of course, on the flip side, you had an explosion in state gubmint spending, the state picking up 2/3 of school spending (which caused an explosion in local property taxes as every school district went on a building binge by saying the state would pay 2/3rds), and no real decreases in state taxes.
83 posted on
11/04/2004 4:44:22 PM PST by
steveegg
(Why is Iowa not called with a .88% lead for Bush when Wisconsin was called with a .4% lead for Kerry)
To: xzins
114 posted on
11/04/2004 5:11:28 PM PST by
qam1
(McGreevy likes his butts his way, I like mine my way - so NO SMOKING BANS in New Jersey)
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