Posted on 07/10/2007 9:06:01 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
On February 12, 1999, the Senate voted on the Clinton impeachment. Thompson voted "not guilty" on article 1, the perjury article, but voted "guilty" on article 2, the obstruction of justice article. The Senate's vote was 45-55 on perjury and 50-50 on obstruction. Conviction on impeachment charges requires the affirmative votes of 67 senators.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson
If Viguerie thinks that's a BAD thing, WGAF what he thinks? Sure as hell not me.
“GWB acted like like a liberal on Medicare, the border, education, and federal spending.”
Thompson would be better on all those issues, I think.
Whenever I see hit pieces like this on Fred Thompson, I know the left is running scared. Articles like this strengthen my resolve to support Thompson.
Fred has to appeal to a wide range of voters to win the White House. His gaggle of critics on the right would be wise to remember that, and that any candidate who gives them everything they want will not win the general election. Fred is solid on pro-life, pro-gun and federalism issues. From federalism springs just about everything conservatives should hope for, unless, of course, your the type of limited-government conservative who believes in such unless it limits what YOU want government to do.
I do so love the ideological Aryans, the "100% pure or you won't get my vote" crowd. I wonder if they've ever voted for anyone? If so, seems to me there's some serious hypocrisy there, as unless you're voting for yourself, you're going to find areas where a politician voted in a way you don't necessarily agree with.
To me, this is much ado about nothing. There's only been one perfect being to walk the planet, and as far as I know, Jesus ain't running on either party's ticket in '08, so seems to me we'll be voting for a man with some flaws. Go figure.
Does make you wonder how deep it'll go, though, doesn't it? To whit:
FACT: Fred Thompson's third-grade report card said -- and I quote -- "Fred is a good child, but sometimes doesn't pay attention". See? SEE? He doesn't pay attention! This is a fact! How can we vote for a man who won't pay attention to what we, the voters, have to say?
FACT: As a fetus, Fred kicked his own mother! How can anyone support a man who would do that?
FACT: This one time, on this one issue type thingie, I heard that Fred said something about this other guy who I liked and I didn't like that things he said Fred said about some other guy. So there. It's true! You can look it up!
Silliness. Y'all keep looking for the perfect candidate. As for me, I'm voting for a President, not a saint.
Maybe we need a Thompson truth file. A lot of the garbage I’ve been reading lately is just a recirculation of charges that have previously been proven to be incorrect. A kind of “Giuliani Truth File” in reverse.
I hope so.
So, instead he should have found someone who didn’t work for Bush?
Which means, BTW...either they aren’t worth their salt, or they haven’t worked on a Presidential campaign in 20 years...so in your mind they’d be unqualified and inexperienced, and instead, you’d bitch about that.
Ding, ding, ding, another winner.. Most people have NO IDEA what the CFR really is, they just automatically associate it with Globalization. The CFR is nothing more than a 'think tank' and research institute. You can find policy papers on all sides of most issues produced by the CFR. Saying that someone is automatically a globalist because they are a member of the CFR is akin to saying someone is a vegetarian because they ate a salad for lunch.
Fred is scaring the crap out of the Dem weasles. I would think you are a plant sent here to cause trouble. Maybe not but this article is full of sh**. Fred is the man and I, for one, will vote for him if he ever declares. If he doesn’t I will give my vote to Duncan Hunter. If Fred or Hunter fail to win the Primary I will write one of them in during the General. I am tired of voting for Rinos and asshats.
i'm getting so confused...
Shhh! Don’t tell them that...then we lose control of their minds...
(Black helicopter will pick you up at 1500 hours...)
Fred is more than conservative enough and can win. Unless one of the “more” conservative guys break out, I can stand firm with that position.
I’ll let others tilt at windmills...
You’re fracking kidding me, right? You’re willing to dismiss every member of the US Senate who voted in the Clinton trial for failing to remove him from office but you don’t know how to look up Senate votes?
Dear Lord in heaven.
IOW, almost all abortions that occur today would still occur under FDT's "best case scenario."
The Reagan Republican platform, which Mr. Thompson has said he has no use for, calls for a Fourteenth Amendment recognition of the personhood of the unborn. IOW, the Grand Old Party, unlike Fred Thompson, believes that no state or individual has the right to murder the most defenseless and helpless among us.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
John Bolton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as is William F. Buckley, Jr.
New information uncovered by the Los Angeles Times indicates that Thompson has lobbied on behalf of an abortion rights organization.As for accurate and competent, he was duped by bogus information in a LA Times article that has since been sanitized of some of the blatantly inaccurate information in an attempt to restore some credibility to the story. As it turns out, Mr. Thompson was not yet working for the lobbying firm while the firm was doing some lobbying for the organization in question. Apparently in his accurate and competent research, Mr. V failed to get the updated info.
I second that!
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