Posted on 06/05/2007 5:40:55 PM PDT by Politicalmom
mom....surprised as I am to discover.... I believe that Fred is against roe v wade and thinks it is a state matter. That's as good as we can hope for at present. But I think that he was saying tonight, he would vote pro-choice at his state level...once roe was overturned. That position also would not be procluded by his previous statements...that are pro life in nature. Not exactly pro-life though.
Since Fred Thompson is not a Catholic man, I’m not holding him to the standards of my faith. He’ll have to answer for his own. From everything I’ve read, he has said he dated a lot of women, but I haven’t heard that he was abusive to any, nor that he misled or mistreated any of them. In fact, Lorrie Morgan has said that he was a gentleman while dating her, and that she’d support him, if he ran for President.
For twenty years, Fred, the lover of women was just "chasing" and being "chased" by them but remained "chaste." That's why it took him so long to marry another one. He was only enjoying the "chase" or "chaste." Yeah, right.
Keep trying, mom.
I didn't hear him say anything of the sort.
They aren’t just “Catholic” standards, SuzyQ. They are christian standards and socially conservative standards.
National Right to Life Committee on Fred Thompson:
“This morning, I cited reports being promoted by the pro-Romney blog Evangelicals for Mitt suggesting that Fred Thompson ran his two campaigns for Senate in Tennessee as a pro-choicer. Not so, National Right to Life executive co-director Darla St. Martin just told me.
St. Martin said that she went down to Tennessee in 1994 to speak with Thompson personally when he first ran for Senate, and that she determined he was against abortion.
‘I interviewed him and on all of the questions I asked him, he opposed abortion,’ St. Martin said. She told me that the group went on to support him in that election, and his record reinforced for her that their determination was correct.
‘He has a consistent voting record that is pro-life,’ she said.
On the NRLC website, they archive their congressional ratings back to 1997, so they include six of his eight years in the Senate. Thompson took the pro-life position on every vote he cast on the abortion issue...”
http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=6017
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I am pro-life. I have a 100% voting record on the pro-life issues. I must say, I’ve told people this before, I, intellectually and politically and from a policy standpoint I’ve always voted that way ever since I’ve been in the Senate and felt that way. I must say it’s meant a little bit more to me since I saw the first sonogram of my little three year old daughter. I’ll never feel the same way about that again. So, not only is it in my head, it’s in my heart, now. And again, I think we ought to try be tolerant of various views on this thing, but in terms of government policy, I think we ought to discourage that [abortion]; it’s a bad thing. I think the Supreme Court was absolutely right in this abortion decision, the partial-birth abortion decision. The very idea that we could even have a debate over whether or not that atrocious activity should be allowable is very unfortunate, to say the least. I think the president has a limited responsibility in that, but people deserve to know how you feel, and that’s how I feel about it.”-Hannity and Colmes interview.
So, you believe it’s impossible, yet that’s what you want him to have done.
That makes no sense, and it is simply slimy.
He was interrupted by Hannity, so I don’t know how he would finish the sentence.
And, agreed that they aren’t just Catholic standards.
It looked like where Thompson was heading (before Hannity cut him off) was that, if Roe V Wade was overturned and the decisions on abortion could be decided by the state, he would never vote (as a Tennessee representative) to make women who have or seek abortions “criminals”.
HA...I should have read the entire thread!
Shame on me!
“And, agreed that they aren’t just Catholic standards.”
By that I meant that Christian folks have a set of standards,
and they aren’t just Catholic standards.
Many other Christian faiths believe them, too.
Color me red...lol.
He said explicitly that he wouldn't want someone from another state (NY for example) to dictate on Tennessee their pro-choice position.
Nice try though. But the continued inuendo and lies are transparent.
Thompson is a free trade supporter. However, he is also the strongest candidate by far in many years on the critical issue of returning rightful Constitutional powers to the states. Someone who wants to push power downward is unlikely to simultaneously want to give away our power to a global government.
On a related note, I believe federalism is the best, long-lasting solution to our problem of eroding sovereignty. If our power is spread out among 50 state capitals as well as in DC, then it will be impossible for a single bad president to sell us out in the future. This is partly why I believe Thompson is even better than some of our other good GOP candidates on the issue of sovereignty.
I’ve seen all that mom...just go listen to him on Hannity again....there is also a video of him in a debate in 94 saying roe is bad and should be overturned...also says it is a state decision..then says at the state level he thinks a decision between a woman and a doctor should not be interfered with by the state...just saw both with my own eyes and ears tonight.
A Debate? 19 months before Inuguration Day? Sheer idiocy.
There's one man who knows how to keep his powder dry and understands the importance of political timing. His name is Fred Thompson.
All the Johnny Jump-ups are going to bore the nation to tears by November.....and I do meanthis November.
If that's all it was, Fred wouldn't have felt the need to make the comment.
Interesting, that you failed to come up with that point in our first go around. But keep spinnin' it mom. : )
I actually do screen out illegals, its part of my job (and I am damn good at it, better then the government is).
I have my gripes with nafta, but I am not a protectionist, and to be honest, if Nafta was working for Mexico, we would not have this many illegals now, I like free trade, but I am from the Helms school, which means best for me, my job is not for thee.
I want lower prices and more choices, how about you tell me ways that can happen?
And that last question, was not meant as an insult, I really am looking for pro consumer views.
No, but I also do not trust conspiracy theories.
I don’t know what the heck she (his wife) sees in an old geezer like Fred. He sounded awful on Hannity tonight. His speech was slow, he stuttered and he just doesn’t look well. I just can’t envision the guy as president (nor her as First Lady).
well dang...I'm gonna miss them..
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