Posted on 06/19/2007 9:54:21 AM PDT by Greystoke
Remember the Republican culture of corruption? The revolving door of Republican politicians moving in and out of top political offices and Washington D.C. lobbying firms? That's Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson. For years, acting wasn't the Law & Order star's profession -- it was a hobby. In the real world, Thompson has made a fortune in a decades-long career as a Washington lobbyist.
And just this month, as part of his role as the ultimate Washington insider, Thompson offered to host yet another fundraising event for Scooter Libby's legal defense fund. Thompson has been vocal in his support of Libby, saying that he would "absolutely" pardon him.
As he runs for president, he'll try his hardest to hide the truth from the American people. And we need to stop him.
Support our efforts to get the truth out about Fred Thompson:
http://www.democrats.org/StopTheAct
Here's what the USA Today had to say about Lobbyist Thompson:
Although the folksy-sounding Tennessean recently told USA TODAY that he would run an outsider, just as he did while campaigning as a "country lawyer" in a red pickup during his 1994 U.S. Senate race, his résumé is that of a longtime Washington operative who has crossed ideological lines to represent corporate and foreign clients.
In his most recent stint in Washington, Thompson worked for a London company lobbying Congress to limit liability claims for asbestos-related illnesses. Over the past three years he's made $760,000 fighting for the interests of his corporate clients.
Now Fred Thompson wants the American people to believe he's the next Ronald Reagan -- a Washington outsider with Hollywood charisma and conservative appeal. But Thompson just plays the role of straight-shooting outsider on TV. In reality, he's as inside as you can get.
He's trying to get to the White House on slick lines and good acting. Help us stop him:
http://www.democrats.org/StopTheAct
As Fred Thompson tries to go from Washington's K Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, the stakes of his candidacy couldn't be higher. In an interview just last week, for example, he claimed that the Roe v. Wade decision "was fabricated out of whole cloth," and that it was the worst court ruling in the past 40 years.
We need to make sure that in 2008, Fred Thompson goes back to doing his acting on Law & Order -- not in the White House.
Make a contribution today:
http://www.democrats.org/StopTheAct
While the Democratic presidential candidates hit the campaign trail, we'll be hitting the Republicans. It's our job to tell the American people the facts about opponents like Fred Thompson and to hold them accountable.
We can't finish that job without you. I hope you'll join us.
Sincerely,
Tom McMahon DNC Executive Director
That's for sure. Cankles will have the "you know" go'in with the buggy eyes just before she throws an ash tray.
Isn’t hypocrisy grand? Because the Dumbs are just p’ing their pants about Repubs that are supposedly for B. Hussein Obama.
He farts in their general direction.
But I don't see votes that would have gone to Fred going to Rudy. If anything, I think some 'moderate' Democrats, who didn't want to vote for Fred because they're so against the Republican party, but didn't like Hillary because she's such a harridan, might just look at Rudy and see Democrat lite, and vote for him. Also, I just have the feeling that Fred will bring folks to the polls who haven't been there in years, thus increasing the total number of votes overall, thus decreasing the percentages for any other candidates.
Yes, but I deleted them. I will post all of them for now on.
I told them that I wasn't very happy with our President or our Senators, and that if I donate at all it will be to Fred.
He tried very hard to sway me to "prevent Hillary from getting to the White House", but I resisted. I told him to call me when the fence is finished.
At the end, he commented that "your call has been recorded, and you never know who listens to these tapes". I sensed a mental wink and a nod.
Is that the worst they’ve got?
BRING IT!
I am NOT making THAT graphic!! :p
Thompson is now perceived as a threat by the lefties, so they will do everything that they can to destroy him. The slime machine has started up!
This is a signal to all those little pissy-faced lefties, whatever their job, whatever their position in society, that they are to use all the means at their disposal to find dirt on Thompson, to criticize him, and to destroy him.
Using your scenario, who would Rudy pick to be his V.P. if he did end up going the third political party route? Would Bloomberg also be separately running as an Independent candidate for President as well? Do both the Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party have a chance to improve upon both their support and their total number of votes for each and every candidate running for political office from both of those two political parties? It truly isn’t that often that the Presidential race is for an open seat so anything is truly possible up to November 4, 2008. I don’t see Rudy ever running as a third party candidate for anything, because doing so is usually a “death knell” politically for any future chances of serious political victory. Just ask former New Hampshire Republican Senator Bob Smith if his Independent run for President was a mistake.
I do believe that past tense of 'shit' is 'shat'!
Oh man, I'm having a 60's flashback!!
No mention of Hillary Clinton, another Washington insider, who has engaged in far more corruption than all of the GOP combined.
Flash back time. Little tommy daschle and his airline lobbyest wife. Dims had no problem with this at all.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0201.mencimer.html
LOLOLOTFLOL!
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