Posted on 04/27/2007 5:44:08 AM PDT by areafiftyone
“Republican Liberty apparently quotes you opposing public financing of abortion but adding: “The ultimate decision must be made by the woman. Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own.”
“Apparently quotes”???? What the hell does that mean? Either it’s a direct quote or it’s not.
It would be interesting if Fred and Ramesh were to have these little back and forth essays every few days. I wonder if that is what they are planning to do.
I think its great! Good dialogue - and I think Ramesh has a new found respect for Fred Thompson.
Ramesh Ponnuru is a very smart writer. It would be wise for Fred Thompson to consider his advice ... maybe not follow everything, but give it serious thought.
“But a lot of conservatives have been telling themselves that Republicans lost the election because they were insufficiently committed to conservative orthodoxy: that if they had just eschewed pork and prescription-drug benefits, the voters would have been kinder to them. It is a comforting theory with almost no basis in fact.”
While it’s surely not the ONLY reason, it did play a large part. Our base was demoralized by the corruption, stupidity, inaction and indecisiveness of members of our own party.
When things are like that and we’re having trouble distinguishing some of our guys from the Dems, we don’t go out and work to convince the independents that our way is the right way. That’s how elections are lost and that is why we will never win by the party moving left.
I don’t trust Thompson on the immigration issue. It seems to me we will get more of the “comprehensive reform” nonsense from him.
His position is security first and then we worry about the ones already here. I agree with him 100%.
Fred will announce sometime next month, but I don't see the urgency. You think someone as popular as Fred needs 6 months to get on ballots? Fred is moving his way up in the polls. He is playing it right. Milk this a few more weeks, then come out and announce.
What is meant by security first? Does that mean an immediate end to the swarms of illegals coming accross the southern border? An immediate deportation of all criminal illegal aliens? Workplace enforcement of immigration laws? What . . . I think his record on this issue is as far in the mushy middle as you can get.
Ponnuru still smarting from the smackdown he got on the federalism debate?
Close the border to prevent additional illegal entry. Then deal with the ones already here.
But nothing short of rounding up 12 million illegals and shipping them out will please some. Mike Pense proposed a decent compromise which was about as tough of a immigration bill that could have been passed, and he got castrated for it from the rabid immigration folks. With the Dems now in power, expect full amnesty.
How about “I’m Fred Thompson and I’m running for President.”
...for a start.
As far as I know He was firmly in the Romney camp before FT was even thinking about running. Now it looks like he’s moving toward FT.
Honestly, I think looking at the records of the other frontrunners is much more depressing.
He hasn’t written a 100 page book on the subject, however he has expressed interest in securing the border first(so comprehensive reform is out) and then advocating policies that would make it less desirable for illegals to be here, so they go home of their own volition. I took that to mean enforcing existing law and perhaps strengthening them.
I imagine he will expound upon his illegal immigration beliefs in detail in the near future.
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Those guys can just write in Chris Simcox’s on their votes then, I guess.
It’s not my issue, but Fred makes a lot of sense and from his comments to Chris Wallace, he seems to have a firm grasp of how most of us feel about the problem and why. That’s a good first step to finding a solution we can all live with.
Guys like Fred attract guys like Ramesh who would presume to give him breathing lessons with his rule-based “India” tautology.
(YAWN!)
There’s no room nor patience for such tomfoolery in these United States.
His stated priorities: Fence and Security first (see the ?Fox news interview a couple of months ago). I agree, this is an area that he can and needs to shout out his opinion.
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