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Speaking of his Senate record:

Thompson is GREAT. However, I have mixed emotions since he supports McCain. Also, I will never forget the wimpy job he did as CHAIRMAN of the Governmental Affairs Committee, with John Glenn as minority head, while investigating the Clinton administration and foreign campaign money. Fred just caved in to John Glenn (minority head) Glenn overpower him on the Clinton position. Consequently, John Glenn's payoff was to ride on the Space Shuttle as the oldest Astronaut on some aging mission. It was a payoff, thanks to the poor performance of Fred Thompson.

Would he be as wimpy against the Islamofacists? It's time to have an SOB as president so we can maintain a non politically correct country

Also, remember this about Senator Fred Thompson as Chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee? Please tell me he will be less wimpy against the Islamofacists? It's time to have an SOB as president so we can maintain a non politically correct country.

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IN a March 3 memo, the Senior Minority Counsel on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee outlines for Sen. John Glenn (Ohio) what he hopes will be the ranking Democrat's contribution to the Asiagate investigation -- 11 subpoenas on conservative activist groups. The list, since forwarded to committee chairman Fred Thompson (R., Tenn.), reads like a "Who's Who" of the conservative movement, including Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Christian Coalition, and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.

In mid March, Senate Republicans agreed to open the door to this potential harassment of their allies after a high-stakes battle over the scope of Sen. Thompson's investigation. Thompson, the hulking 54-year-old former actor who looks the part of a President and wants to play one in real life, laid the predicate for this in February by acceding to the demands of Democrats for an investigation broad enough to include a hunt for GOP wrongdoing.

This set off alarm bells among his Republican colleagues, who fear he will keep stoking his amazing media hype by playing the bi-partisan reformer at their expense. So, privately, they discussed shutting Thompson down and, instead, hoping for an independent counsel.