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Thompson's Senate career faces scrutiny as nears White House race
Boston Globe ^ | June 1, 2007 | Thomas Ferraro

Posted on 06/02/2007 8:57:12 AM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Cringing Negativism Network
How about we put Hitlery’s Senate career to some scrutiny?

(((shudder))) - well someone's gotta do it.

21 posted on 06/02/2007 9:25:58 AM PDT by tioga (Fred Thompson for President.)
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To: billybudd
Fred appeals to the slacker blood coursing through my veins.

I am quite interested to see how his sloth like pace plays on the campaign trail.

Will we see him cutting down trees on a Ranch or wind surfing?
22 posted on 06/02/2007 9:26:51 AM PDT by elizabetty (Perpetual Candidate using campaign donations for your salary - Its a good gig if you can get it.)
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To: cdcdawg

Most of those idiots on the hill aren’t trying to solve problems, they’re trying to get noticed. They should leave more of the problems to us. Hillary wants to micromanage our entire lives. Wish they’d stick to what the constitution said the federal government is supposed to do, protect us from foreign invaders.


23 posted on 06/02/2007 9:31:23 AM PDT by Aria (NO RAPIST ENABELER FOR PRESIDENT!!!)
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To: cripplecreek

Criticism of FDT on immigration equates his stands on LEGAL
immigration (improving the process) with ILLEGAL immigration in which he has stood firm on border security.

If anything could be said to relieve the border security strain it would be the improvement and streamlining of the bureaucracy of LEGAL immigration


24 posted on 06/02/2007 9:39:18 AM PDT by Optimist (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
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To: Zakeet

“An unnamed veteran lobbyist said Fred was viewed as a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, ‘I’m done.’ Can you name one major piece of legislation he authored? I can’t.”

This sounds like a positive to me!


25 posted on 06/02/2007 9:41:20 AM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Amnesty alone didn't kill the GOP - socialism did long ago. The stench you smell now is it's corpse.)
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To: Zakeet

26 posted on 06/02/2007 9:42:01 AM PDT by xcamel ("It's Thompson Time!")
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To: Zakeet

The same Clinton operative has done hit pieces on Rudy and
Romney. Clinton media services INC never rests.


27 posted on 06/02/2007 9:48:21 AM PDT by BurtSB (the price of freedom is eternal vigilance)
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To: Zakeet
a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, 'I'm done.

How many of us , if we had to sit through the BS meetings that he had to sit through wouldn't have wanted to say/do the same thing?

Gotta respect him for that .... he wasn't Morty Seinfeld walking out of a meeting because it was too late.

28 posted on 06/02/2007 9:50:43 AM PDT by Optimist (I think I'm beginning to see a pattern here.)
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To: Zakeet
From the hit piece: "He needs to develop a persona that's distinctly his."

Um, I'd say that Fred ALREADY HAS developed a persona that's distinctly his. LOL!



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29 posted on 06/02/2007 9:50:44 AM PDT by Josh Painter ("We're sitting here now with essentially open borders." - Fred Thompson)
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To: xcamel; Politicalmom

We Thompson supporters better get braced...the clinton/media crime machine hasn’t even warmed up yet.

The fire in our bellies is gonna have to match the fire manifested by supporters of other primary candidates here on the forum, also. Some are very organized against any opposition to their boys.


30 posted on 06/02/2007 10:01:21 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (That "broken glass" we all crawled over in 2000 has now left scars on our hearts as well !)
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To: Zakeet
An unnamed veteran lobbyist said Fred was viewed as a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, 'I'm done.' Can you name one major piece of legislation he authored? I can't.

I can. Here are a few: the Federalism Accountability Act, and the Regulatory Right to Know Act, the Federal Financial Information Assistance Management Improvement Act, the Truth in Regulating Act, and revision of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

Of course, these were all legislation that reined in the federal government. That unnamed veteran lobbyist may have meant that he couldn't think of any Thompson legislation that imposed new laws, spending and bureaucracy on the American people.

No wonder our system is so screwed up, when only legislation that increases the size of government count as "major" or "important."

31 posted on 06/02/2007 10:36:20 AM PDT by ellery (I don't remember a constitutional amendment that gives you the right not to be identified-R.Giuliani)
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To: Politicalmom
Steve Gill
32 posted on 06/02/2007 10:46:39 AM PDT by RobFromGa (FDT/TBD in 2008!)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem; OKSooner

“An unnamed veteran lobbyist said Fred was viewed as a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, ‘I’m done.’...”

Maybe so he didn’t have to listen to son of a gun lobbyists who are too wussy to give their names in interviews.


33 posted on 06/02/2007 10:53:01 AM PDT by Honeybunch ("Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." ~Rudyard Kipling)
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To: RobFromGa

I still haven’t received my copy and I preordered it!


34 posted on 06/02/2007 10:54:20 AM PDT by TN Conserative
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To: TN Conserative

It was supposed to ship May 25 according to the website, I ordered a copy today.

Let me know when you get it, and whether it is any good.


35 posted on 06/02/2007 10:57:07 AM PDT by RobFromGa (FDT/TBD in 2008!)
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To: RobFromGa

I sure will! If it does not come today,I will email Steve’s producer.He is signing books at The Statesmans’ Dinner in Nashville at 5:30 at the Convention Center.


36 posted on 06/02/2007 11:01:08 AM PDT by TN Conserative
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To: TN Conserative

I ordered bumper stickers, some buttons, and a mouse pad today too. Plus a couple of extra books for friends.


37 posted on 06/02/2007 11:07:57 AM PDT by RobFromGa (FDT/TBD in 2008!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You should see people’s reaction when I drive through crowded shopping malls with my car plastered with our Flush Hillary.com bumper stickers!! People wave, honk and thumbs up, I love it!!


38 posted on 06/02/2007 11:18:19 AM PDT by Stayfree (Bumper stickers, coffee mugs & Flush Hillary calendars at Flush Hillary.com)
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To: Zakeet

They are afraid of Fred, alright. And, well, they should be.
In this country, you’re not going to have the ordinary, red-blooded citizen vote for a woman. Not, as many as they would like you to believe, anyway.

(Elizabeth Dole, I would vote for)


39 posted on 06/02/2007 11:25:08 AM PDT by onyx eyes (changed my tag line.)
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To: Zakeet
"He needs to develop a persona that's distinctly his.

Thanks for the advice, hon, but Fred already has that persona thang goin' --- didn't have to hire experts to advise him on who, or how, to be ---is himself, and not likely to change for political expediency, and THAT is one reason why I like him so much.

40 posted on 06/02/2007 11:25:33 AM PDT by LucyJo
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