Like Reagan Without the New Ideas (Fred Thompson)

The New York Observer ^ | June 6, 2007 | Jennifer Rubin

[Eric Blair 2084]

Don't shoot the messenger. This was in Real Clear Politics this morning.

Thompson was the backup QB. Now he's the starter.

[dirtboy]

Bashing Fidel Castro, the U.N. and the President’s immigration proposal, however artfully done, are not terribly new in conservative Republican circles.

I guess this twit doesn't realize that Fred has to win the GOP nomination first and then the general.

[statered]

In all honesty we don’t need new ideas, we need old ones. Constitutional ideas.

[The_Reader_David]

'Terribly new' ideas are a fixation of the left. Perhaps the commentator should be reminded of the meaning of conservative.

[conserv8ive1]

100% CORRECT!

[airborne]

Some of his old ideas are classics.

[John Valentine]

Yeah, and I can’t recall the general liberal press’ swooning editorials praising Reagan’s “new ideas” back in the time, either.

History is whatever liberals want it to be - whatever seems to buttress their current storyline.

[Darkwolf377]

I don't know if Reagan's ideas were new; they were just CORRECT.

I'm not interested in any President who wants to reinvent the wheel--that's what the dems want to do.

[angkor]

You’re right. No “new ideas” please. I don’t want a Reagan Republican. Maybe a Goldwater Republican.

[familyop]

On defense and judicial issues...more likely comparable to Nixon, IMO.

[Smedley]

So what - I’ll take a Reagan re-hash over Bush, Clintoon et al any day

[Free Vulcan]

Not much substance to the article either.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Fred is a Federalist. Something the media needs to read up on. It is not a NEW idea, but an old one.
I guess we need to just watch all the attacks come out as Fred’s popularity goes up.

[Enduring Freedom]

i found this article to have no new ideas, and nothing conservatives would be interested in

[crazyhorse691]

As G.O.P. voters’ concern has turned to panic

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Gee, I didn’t even know I was panicking. Guess I have to back off from Fred to show the liberals I am in control of my emotions(which they very rarely are).

[RightthinkinAmerican]

You mean a newspaper from New York doesn’t like Fred? Good! I like him even more (if that was possible).

[Soul Seeker]

While I haven’t thrown my support behind Thompson yet, who here wants something new? Different- yes. but I’m more then happy with the conservative propositions stipulated in past. The problem is finding a conservative to actually bring them about. that’s the only change I want. Not new legislative endeavors that further enhance liberalism.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

His “elder statesman” screen persona obscures the fact he is the most inexperienced of the major G.O.P. contenders, with seven dimly remembered years as U.S. Senator, no area of expertise, no executive experience and no major legislative achievements bearing his name.

Boy does this ever deserve a Barf Alert. The author completely ignores the work Fred did on Watergate, Bush's judicial picks, and bringing down a corrupt TN Governor.

And Fred didn't pick his rear in the Senate either. He did a lot of work in the trenches.

So the author can go get bent. Her publication criticized FR over the Giuliani purge so they have no credibility.

[rob777]

“In all honesty we don’t need new ideas, we need old ones. Constitutional ideas.”

AMEN! Timeless ideals.

[eyedigress]

He was a good man.