My main question is: where is his team? Where will he get a good Secretary of Defense, a reliable Attorney General? What will his Chief of Staff be like?
You are not just voting for him, you are voting for the people he knows and could bring into an administration.
Amen. But then my true conservatism is being called into question tonight for disagreeing one time in 6 1/2 years with Dubya on the DISASTROUS amnesty bill. So I may be lying. Maybe I’m really voting for Hilly Chavez? It’s a mystery....
He would, I wouldn't.
Jesus Christ wouldn’t be running for office if he were on earth today. He’d have swept the world leaders off the chess board by now, and be helming all the governments an the planet as easily as opening a can of soup.
And he certainly wouldn’t be defending or explaining his positions. He’d simply be leading by proclamation and setting everything straight by the power of his word.
If Fred Thompson follows the list of conservative issues on J. B. Williams website, I’m 100% for Fred Thompson.
Many of us thought GW Bush would follow those principles too, but he let us down. He started out OK with tax relief and the economy grew. He was right to fight back against terrorism, but he let Rumsfeld and the old Army way of setting up gold-plated camps in Iraq, instead of keeping the enemy off balance, bog us down. GW really lost us on immigration.
If we conservatives can’t get the GOP to clean itself up, we either need a new third party or another meeting of the sons of liberty on Lexington green.
The author is the one who apparently bought in to the idea that the Bush family was a conservative family. Now, he's using his own mistake and applying it to Fred Thompson. The trouble is that there are not two Fred Thompson's. Fred is who he is. Being a member of CFR or any other think tank is not going to change that. Fred has never espoused 'compassionate conservatism' and has never advocated the Bush policies along those lines. There is no reason to think that he would start now. Especially when he's seen where that road leads.
Fred another RINO?
Here’s a site that I found yesterday. It contains information on his voting history and the like.
http://conservativesagainstfred.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the article.
>> If Jesus Christ himself were running today,
Now, that’s one way to stop a story in its tracks.
I don't know about you, but I don't feel like questioning the Lord.
And please bless our Troops and their families.
Amen
I am glad he said this. This is the one thing I am truly worried about and that is will our next President do only what the big boys want?
27 posts to the Hunter hijack...
http://www.state.gov/t/isn/isab/
International Security Advisory Board (ISAB)
The Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (formerly called the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board (ACNAB)) provides the Department with independent insight and advice on all aspects of arms control, disarmament, international security, and related aspects of public diplomacy. The ISAB is sponsored and overseen by the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. The Board provides its recommendations directly to the Secretary of State. The Board currently has 20 members and is chartered to have up to 25. Board members are national security experts with scientific, military, diplomatic, and political backgrounds. The Board meets in a plenary session on a quarterly basis.
Updated: April 19, 2007
http://www.state.gov/t/isn/isab/c17650.htm
Board Members
— Senator Fred Thompson (Chairman)
— Dr. Michael R. Anastasio
— Dr. Kathleen Bailey
— Dr. Ashton B. Carter
— Ms. Alison B. Fortier
— Dr. William Graham
— Amb. Robert Joseph
— Mr. Mitchel B. Kugler
— Dr. Ronald F. Lehman, II
— Vice Admiral Robert R. Monroe, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
— Dr. Gordon C. Oehler
— Dr. Keith B. Payne
— Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
— Senator Charles S. Robb
— Dr. C. Paul Robinson
— Dr. Amy Sands
— Dr. James R. Schlesinger
— Dr. William Schneider, Jr
— Dr. William Van Cleave
— Mr. R. James Woolsey
Really all I know about Fred is what votes he cast in the Senate, really no more of an actual record than Obama, more conservative, yes, but no more or less of a record. I know he writes some speeches and makes some publicly, but I need more than that and am not willing to commit that much to trust, we have been burned too many times. I am not seeing Fred is “making more sense” than the rest of them. We can possibly do a blockade (of Iran), if we can get international cooperation? That is more sense, and on such a critical matter?
Blockading Iran is a horrible idea and would only strengthen their resolve, tie up our assets endlessly, collapse a few economies and get us 5-7 dollar/gal. gasoline and I have yet heard anyone else point this out. That is his idea of a good policy? I think many of us need to open our eyes and see where we are going. Once we get there it isn’t going to matter that we don’t like where we are, because that is where we will be for 8 years.
“But that doesn’t mean that an honest concerned American doesn’t need to ask the right questions before climbing fully onboard any political train today.”
Aaaaaaaaaaaamen.
Question, question, question.
Reveal, Reveal, Reveal
Duck.
My take on Fred....
“I don’t hear him say how he would effectively secure the border. I want details. He won’t give them.
On the other hand, as far as amnesty for illegal aliens goes...like Bush, he says he’s against it, but in the same breath says more specifically...
“there’s no good solution”, and
“then we’ll talk about what to do about other (illegal aliens)”, and says
we have to “figure out some way to make some differentiation between the kind of people that we have here” (illegal aliens), and continues by saying
“certainly no amnesty or nothing blanket like that”
and his position on amnesty could not be more questionable when he says, ““You’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they (illegal aliens) can have some aspirations of citizenship”.”
Smacks of amnesty to me.”
“What he says here is that since he believes there is no good solution, he won’t give all illegals ‘blanket’ amnesty, but we will have to settle for a solution that will differentiate between what ‘kind’ of illegal aliens are here and ‘those’ will be given aspirations of citizenship, a deal, which is amnesty.
Non specific about border security, amnesty for a non-specific number of non-specified group of illegal aliens....add NAFTA and CFR along with the endorsement by George P Bush and other Bush teamers, too many red flags and so I question question whether or not he is the OBL/NAU candidate.
Don’t think for one stinking moment that those &*$%#) don’t have one. They do.”
“And they would have us believe he’s running as a “Washington outsider” too. Sounds good anyway. But take a closer look as I’ve been finding and you’ll see...
TransTexas Corridorer and GWBer, Jerry Patterson, who claims he didn’t even know FT, but played a big role in his push to the front. He says FT is not just running “to be President”.
No?
“I’ve never craved the job of president, but I want to do some things that only a president can do.”
Really? And with who’s advice and assistance?...
GWBer and Federal Reserver, Larry Lindsey
GWBer and Federalist Society, David McIntosh
GWBer and OBLer, Ed Gillespie
Chamber of Commercer, John Khachigian “The star power clearly works with new audiences, if you haven’t seen it before’” It surely does.
I’m sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg, but with folks from Fed. Reserve, Federalist Society, TTC, and Chambers of Commerce...one might begin to wonder if Fred Thompson isn’t the OBL’s Candidate for 2008.”
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
**sigh** That would be an answer to prayer for certain.
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus!
This Thompson IS running
TOMMY Thompson On Senate Compromise: “THIS HAS THE LOOK AND FEEL OF AMNESTY”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835927/posts