I am a supporter of Fred Thompson, but I recognize that both Tancredo and Hunter are closest to my beliefs. Thompson has the only realistic chance of beating Hillary.
Well, he needs to get in or out of the game. It would be nice to see him up there debating with the guys who are walking the talk.
How can you vote for someone who can't even stand up to a pussy like Harry Reid?
“Thompson has the only realistic chance of beating Hillary.”
Sorry, doug, but that sounds like a defeatist attitude on your part. We don’t really know that.
Learn to soar with the eagles. Don’t let the turkeys get you down.
We have to get behind a proven leader. We must support Tancredo.
Well, I guess I should have continued to read before replying. Sorry, didn’t know you were in that camp.
I’ve sent some support to Tancredo over the years to his campaign and to TeamAmericaPac before that, I’ve sent some to Hunter recently as well. I think we need to keep the true conservatives in this process!
I’m liking FRed from what I’ve read and think that any combo of the above three would be great for our country!!
“I am a supporter of Fred Thompson, but I recognize that both Tancredo and Hunter are closest to my beliefs. Thompson has the only realistic chance of beating Hillary.”
Thompson will wreck Hillary!!
Doug, good report.
I disagree about Thompson’s exclusive chances. A lot can change in 18 months—even after the premature primaries. Forget that and you leave a lot of chips on the table and walk away before the game’s over.
Beyond that, the article below has some interesting thoughts about FDT. Beyond the concerns the article raises, ANY candidate that the grassroots settles for and demands—to the point that we are demanding our borders be dealt with—can win.
That said, here is the article:
Fred Thompson’s globalist pedigree
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55776
Thank you for reporting about the Tancredo event at the Nixon library.
The main problem that I have with Fred Thompson is that he apparently supports giving 12 million illegal aliens a path to citizenship. I don’t agree with Fred saying in 2006 that “[y]ou’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship”.
Below is a transcript of a 2007 Thompson appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Link to Fox News Sunday Transcript:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258222,00.html
WALLACE: You also favor comprehensive immigration reform. I want to...
THOMPSON: No, no, no, no.
WALLACE: Well, let me put up on the screen something that you said last year about illegals, and let’s take a look at it. “You’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship but not make it so easy that it’s unfair to the people waiting in line and abiding by the law.”
Now, you said, “Look, it’s just not realistic that we’re going to round up 12 million people and ship them all out of the country.”
THOMPSON: Well, that’s true, as a general statement. We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with.
I mean, there’s really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I’m concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that’s why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary.
I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we’re insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we’ll talk about what to do with regard to other things — certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that.
But figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here.
You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you’re not encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once they’re here, they’ll go back, many of them, of their own volition, instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people up. That’s not going to happen.