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TV Star, Former Republican Senator Fred Thompson Mulls '08 Presidential Bid
Fox News ^ | March 8, 2007

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; electionpresident; elections; fredthompson; giuliani
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To: EternalVigilance; Howlin

Check out Fred Thompson's voting record on abortion. Thompson refused to affirmed Roe. He may not be as conservatvie as I like, but he sure is a heck of a lot better than what we have now.


http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/scorecard/?chamber=S&session=106&x=17&y=18#TN


201 posted on 03/08/2007 9:20:08 PM PST by Kuksool
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To: EternalVigilance

No, no. He's competent and has experience.

You want a nobody who says all the right things.

Like Jimmy Carter.


202 posted on 03/08/2007 9:20:30 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: Howlin
The ideologues out there are looking for Mr. Perfect and he doesn't exist. Anyone who even talks about running gets trashed around here. Yes, it is useful to identify candidates and their stands on issues but the venom is rather startling isn't it? Fred is already being called RINO and I'm not sure what that term means any more.

Do you?
203 posted on 03/08/2007 9:20:34 PM PST by misterrob (Jack Bauer/Chuck Norris 2008)
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To: Howlin
And you better watch who you call pro-abortion, you little weasel.

Okay. I'll call them what they are. Abortionists.

204 posted on 03/08/2007 9:20:59 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "Republicans" like these, who needs Democrats?)
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To: Hildy

I think your tag line helped figure out what your point was. I was making my point, not agreeing with anything you were saying.


205 posted on 03/08/2007 9:21:20 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

"I'd vote for Fred before I'd vote for ANY - ANY of the current candidate names mentioned:"

DITTO....

Like it or not, Rudy Folks, this guy is Ronald Reagan, Part Deux...

And he is about the only candidate running that the Hillary Hate Machine cannot chew up and spit out with ease...


206 posted on 03/08/2007 9:21:59 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: Kuksool

Oh, lord; actual facts; they are like kryptonite around here.

Thank you very much for that information.


207 posted on 03/08/2007 9:22:16 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

The idea is to bring together all wings of the GOP.

Fred could do that. Giuliani NEVER will.


208 posted on 03/08/2007 9:23:01 PM PST by Politicalmom ("Always vote for principle...and your vote is never lost."-John Quincy Adams)
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To: misterrob

Yes, it means Republican In Name Only; I take that to mean people who are conservatives who aren't really Republicans, but are just using the GOP because they can't elect anybody in a party of their own.


209 posted on 03/08/2007 9:23:40 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Don't infer that I'm one.


210 posted on 03/08/2007 9:24:00 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

Maybe i didn't keep real close tabs on the 2000 election...but i seem to remeber McCain had a lot of conservative support going into the elections...but the powers that be in the RNC decided GW was the man and he had huge backing behind the scenes...it took Limbaugh off guard (no, Rush was not a McCain supporter) also...i remember many callers and solid conservatives having reservations about GW....my point is that many solid conservatives were backing McCain in 2000....i don't fault Fred for that.

Am i wrong in this?...i don't have specifics but that is they way it played out in my memory.....i may be all wrong.


211 posted on 03/08/2007 9:24:49 PM PST by chasio649
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To: EternalVigilance

Is there anybody good enough to earn your support? I swear with your stated criteria, I'm beginning to wonder if George Washington himself would make the cut.


212 posted on 03/08/2007 9:24:49 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: misterrob
Here's what's funny. They'll call somebody who reflexively supports the GOP a RINO. Follow me on this: How can a Republican in Name Only be someone who doesn't abandon Republicans for not being pure enough?!?!?
213 posted on 03/08/2007 9:24:49 PM PST by AmishDude (It doesn't matter whom you vote for. It matters who takes office.)
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To: Howlin
Oh, lord; actual facts; they are like kryptonite around here.

Like this?

"If McCain-Feingold passes, it will not have happened if it weren't for Fred Thompson," said McCain's chief of staff, Mark Salter in 2001.

214 posted on 03/08/2007 9:24:59 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "Republicans" like these, who needs Democrats?)
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To: Politicalmom

There are some "wings" of the GOP that have no intention of every coming "together."


215 posted on 03/08/2007 9:25:07 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: EternalVigilance

""Fred Thompson" and "pro-choice."

Dumb, dumb, dumb. Dummer than a sack of rocks...

If you search "Fred Thompson" "pro-choice" you get 13K hits, if you search "Fred Thompson" "pro-life" you get 19K hits.

The fact is his voting record has been pro-life.


216 posted on 03/08/2007 9:25:40 PM PST by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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To: beagle9

Thompson/Rice '08

Wouldn't THAT be a hell of a ticket??

The very thought has to have Dem Washington Elitists quaking in thier Birkenstocks...


217 posted on 03/08/2007 9:26:00 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: pollyannaish

If Jesus himself was running, some on here would be posting about how he wore dresses and hung around with a bunch of men all the time.


218 posted on 03/08/2007 9:26:19 PM PST by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: AmishDude
LOL. I just noticed your tagline. Is it new?
219 posted on 03/08/2007 9:26:27 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: chasio649

McCain died among conservatives after NH. In fact, he depended heavily on Dem crossover votes in a number of key states.


220 posted on 03/08/2007 9:26:34 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "Republicans" like these, who needs Democrats?)
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