Yes, Pat Buchanan conservatives oppose free trade. Ronald Reagan conservatives, not so much. Thompson is closer to Reagan than any of the other mentioned candidates.
Pat Buchanan, is that you? If not, someone else is riding to the sound of your gums.
Ron Paul if you wish to cut and run in Iraq. Tancredo's a great activist, but such figures seldom do well in pursuit of higher office.
Hunter is a great congressman and is still my ideological first choice, but I don't see his campaign doing the right things to get traction, and he's running out of time in a hurry.
Meanwhile, if the tin-eared type who wrote this bothered to listen to Thompson's more recent positions, he realizes we need enforcement first. Which is a sane approach no matter what your opinions as to how this country should handle the illegals already here.
Plus, compare Thompson to Rudy, McVain and Romney. The half-empty glass quickly looks half-full.
Sorry, Basil ... you used the "n" word.
I stopped reading, right there ... you have no credibility.
Why are neoncons backing Thompson? Ideally, being ex-Trotskyites themselves, neocons would prefer a liberal candidate, like McCain, Giuliani or Romney. But they see that conservatives deplore these candidates, and now are going to try to peddle Fred Thompson, who is just socially conservative enough and just tough enough on the borders, even if it is feigned, to woo naive GOP voters. But let's hope this nefarious neocon plot fails.
So we can get a full blooded liberal like Giuliani?
Fred Thompson:
~snip~
I think its time for a little plain talk to the leaders of Mexico. Something like:
hey guys, you’re our friends and neighbors and we love you but it’s time you had a little dose of reality. A sovereign nation loses that status if it cannot secure its own borders and we are going to do whatever is necessary to do so, although our policies won’t be as harsh as yours are along your southern border. And criticizing the U.S. for alternately doing too much and too little to stop your illegal activities is not going to set too well with Americans of good will who are trying to figure a way out of the mess that your and our open borders policy has already created.
My friends, it’s also time for a little introspection. Since we all agree that improving Mexico’s economy will help with the illegal-immigration problem, you might want to consider your own left-of -center policies. For example, nationalized industries are not known for enhancing economic growth. Just a thought. But here’s something even more to the point that you might want to think about: What does it say about the leadership of a country when that country’s economy and politics are dependent upon the exportation of its own citizens?
~snip~
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjhkYzZiNTAxZjAyZTNjNzkxNjA2ZTNmNDBhNjhlYWU=
I like Tancredo and Ron Paul, although I think we've got to be more offensive in the WOT than Paul would be. I'll likely cast a vote for Tancredo in the primary, though it could be Duncan Hunter.
That out of the way, Tancredo may get my vote and his, but he ain't getting the nomination.
LOL! If Fred Thompson is a "Neocon Globalist" then what does this make Giuliani, McCain and Romney? Communist dictators?
The media likes McCain, Giuliani and Romney because they will be the easiest to ambush next fall after the conventions.
Oh, jeez, not another Buchanan-worshipping dolt.
dumping on fred thompson because hes a threat to your guiliani i see.
"Neocon", like the terms "racist" or "sexist", has no meaning anymore beyond "I don't like what you're saying, but I'm too stupid to know how to argue with you about it".
* Fred Thompson has blasted more people in the face with a shotgun than even Dick Cheney.
* The masked executioner of Saddam Hussein: Fred Thompson.
* Every night before going to sleep, Osama bin Laden checks under his bed for Fred Thompson.
* Fred Thompson took over what was Al Gore's Senate seat, thereby dramatically reducing the Senate's carbon footprint. Fred Thompson then created carbon offset offsets by wastefully burning hippies.
* Fred Thompson reconsidered running for reelection after 9/11 but later decided to handle things on his own. He was soon seen entering the Middle East with a bottle of tequila in one hand an a handgun in the other. They're still counting the dead.
* Fred Thompson once ended a filibuster by ripping out a Senator's heart and showing it to him before he died.
* The actual cause of global warming: Fred Thompson's burning rage.
* Fred Thompson once stood on our south border and glared at Mexico. There was no illegal immigration for a month.
* Scientists predict that when Fred Thompson dies he'll explode taking out the five nearest planets before collapsing into a black hole.
* If you purchase a weather radio, it will wake you up with an alarm to warn you when Fred Thompson is pissed off.
* Webster's Dictionary defines "conservatism" as "how closely one's views resemble those of Fred Thompson."
* Fred Thompson's sense of strategy is so great that he can checkmate you using only a pawn and a knight.
* When terrorists get to the afterlife, they'll find that none of their seventy-two women are still virgins. Why? Because of Fred Thompson.
* Why does Iran want nuclear weapons? Out of fear of Fred Thompson.
And if we want to speak about negatives, then Ron Paul has to bear a lot of scrutinty. Ron Paul is part of the pro-surrender crowd. He basically has the foreign policy plans of a 6-year old girl who believes everything she sees when mommy watches CNN. Ron Paul, additionally, is a libertarian, not a conservative, which means he can't really be trusted on most of the social issues that count for anything, aside from gun control. How's he stand on the borders? Most libertarians tend to be open-borders supporters, or at least tend to waver on this issue, because their impulses impel them to believe that "individuals have the right to freely go where they can get the most compensation for their labour", regardless of pesky things like laws and national sovereignty.
Tom Tancredo, I like. But he would have zero chance of winning a national election, even if the Dims nominated Dennis "Space Cowboy" Kucinich, because he is widely perceived by the general population as being a wacko, and even by Republicans as being a one-hit wonder.
I don't listen to organizations that lump legal and illegal immigration policies into the same group.
Thompson must be getting pretty popular, judging from the attacks I'm reading about today.
Nuff said.
D; and on interior enforcement
Baf-d, bad.
Ron Paul? Really?