Posted on 03/08/2007 7:43:28 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is facing increased calls to get into the 2008 GOP nomination race.
Sources told FOX News that Thompson, 62, now one of the stars of the popular NBC prime time series "Law & Order," has not ruled out a presidential bid, and has authorized advisers and supporters to continue to gauge support.
Advisers are holding regular strategy sessions, investigating fundraising avenues and private polling to measure enthusiasm. Perhaps pre-eminent among a number of prominent Thompson backers working behind the scenes is former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker.
Baker has been a mentor to Thompson since before the Senate's Watergate hearings, for which Baker hired Thompson as majority counsel and for which Thompson earned fame for having Baker ask the key question that led to President Richard Nixon's downfall: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
Baker ran for president himself in 1980. Thompson eyed the White House in the 1990s.
While Thompson, who also helped raise money and advise I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's legal defense fund, continues to mull a bid, sources said he has been inundated with calls from GOP donors and supporters urging him to run.
Thompson has a solid and consistently conservative voting record that his supporters said makes a stark contrast to Republican frontrunners Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney.
This week, he told radio news host Mark Levin that he would have something to say about his plans, but not yet.
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"But he is a decent man with good qualities; I would vote for him were he the Republican nominee. However, I personally would prefer someone who will go for the kill."
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The "Go for the kill" species seems to missing from the Republican gene pool. Just watch any dust-up btwn Pubs and Rats. The Rats play by a different set of rules and, for some reason, the Pubs just throw their chests out as if to say "bet you can't get this."
Trying to understand this just befuddles me.
Now, we have #157. Who is correct? Is he pro-life or "pro-choice?" Was National Review wrong in 1994?
Rubbish; absolute rubbish.
See my post #70.
Notice they've already started to trash Thompson.
if he gets into the race, we'll hear what he has to say himself. its all about the judges anyway.
Click on the link and see what you think.
It was written within days.
That made me chuckle. They're either IMing each other right now, or they have one of the anti-freep sites up in another window.
"*Giggle* I just called Rudy `Rudy the RINO.'"
"Yeah, you really got them!"
"ROTFLOLMAOAOTPWMMTIITBDMHW!!!!!!!!"
Well, well, if it isn't the little boy who cried wolf.
Your problem, EV, is that you've shot your wad on Rudy and Romney.
When you come on here trashing Thompson, it's only going to prove once and for all what everybody already knows: you're a paid operative that's here to divide the GOP.
"Never forget the 900 FBI raw data files."
Score a point for RavenATB.
Knowing the Democrat's thirst for fair play, would they take multiple cheap, underhanded shots? Of course, they would!
Not bad : )
The sad part about it, that's probably word for word what the Nancy boys are saying.
The columnist you linked has it wrong.
Can you show me where Fred Thompson has ever called himself anything but pro-choice?
When he was a Senator, and when he ran for office, every news article you can find calls him "pro-choice."
Or has he pulled a Romney?
You'll have to forgive me; I don't believe a word you say.
I'd believe Bill Clinton before I'd believe you; at the very least, he can be charming.
FR is still pro-life and against the trashing of the First Amendment, Howlin. Thompson fails on both points.
I keep saying the same thing. Any candidate whose best hope is to defend the 2000 or 2004 electoral map isn't going to win. Things could change on the political front, Iraq might be much closer to the promised end, but even with that, I don't see Republicans winning if the Democrats can take their blue states to the bank early and use their money to pick off a couple of red states.
Notice also that it is the same fifth columnist scum who are culprit. I swear, if Duncan were to catch fire these same weasels would degrade him, too.
For what its worth, Fred Thompson was one of ten Republican Senators to vote Bill Clinton not guilty of perjury in his impeachment trial.
He did vote Clinton guilty on Obstruction of Justice.
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