Posted on 07/10/2007 9:06:01 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
“. fred thompson isn’t a knight riding in on a white horse”
Good to know that you don’t think he’s the antichrist.
Sure he is! The article says so! :)
Who?
You simply over reacted to the TRUE statements I made about my favorite President. And you need to talk to Hunter, Paul and Rudy supporters about that notion that Freeper’s don’t flame good conservatives here...not me.
They shouldn’t, but they do, all day long.
Thompson is more like Reagan than any other candidate. But to frame either of them as right-wingers would not be true.
As for getting to know the real Reagan, not only have I read many of his writings, but I met the real Ronald Reagan and was given a flag at the White House by Reagan personally. It still hangs in my office beside his singed picture and personal note. Still think I don’t know the real Reagan?
I know Reagan. He was a great man and a great president. But he was no hardcore right-wing extremist.
That was my point. And neither is Thompson.
FT Reference bump! ;-)
Care to back this up?
Ed Gillespie, open borders shill extraordinaire? Nope. Too young.
Mrs. James Carville, aka Mary Matalin? Nope.
Really, if you're going to make a claim such as this, please source it. You've been trying to make people believe you're some kind of "somebody," so let's see your stuff.
Nice attempt at twisting the conversation. It has nothing to do with job type. It has to do with spending a lifetime on the tax-payers dime.
The Clinton’s never earned an honest dollar in their lives. They are multi-millionaires today and all of it came at great tax-payer expense. Take away politics and they are nothing at all.
Stick to the real discussion. Career politics is BAD.
Not ever career politician is evil, most are. But politics should never be a career. It’s NOT in our best interest.
Conservatives know this...
Isn’t Viguerie a favorite of CNN?
“And they were right.... GWB was the most conservative who could win, to run in 2000 and he was a damn site better than Algore or John Kerry Heinz...
Thompson is to the right of Bush and again the most conservative who can win in the race.”
Here’s a newsflash to everyone:
No conservative can win the presidency. Think about it. How many people on this site are in line with ALL of the following:
1) AGAINST Roe vs. Wade
2) FOR the WOT
3) AGAINST illegal immigration
4) FOR securing the border
5) AGAINST the welfare state
6) FOR balancing the federal budget
Now, I would venture to say that at least 70% of the posters on this site agree with ALL of the above.
So, why doesn’t a SINGLE mainstream presidential candidate fit into that mold?
It is either that:
A) America is truly a liberal place that will one day be relegated to dust bin of history
-OR-
B) Conservatives are allowing the MSM (feel free to insert your favorite target here whether that be the power elite, CFR, etc.) to DICTATE to them who the candidate is.
Your choice. The argument is NOT fallacious.
Those guys would mostly knife us in the front, twist it a few times, cut us up good, and tell us we like it. I still like Dubya, though I had hoped he would accomplish some reform of government. There were some efforts made, but those mostly stopped after 2002, or maybe after 9/11, and the rest of the years have been pretty much wasted.
My expectations for Fred are realistic.
You said:
“Thompson’s primary advisors are all old Reagan folks.”
Funny, but I’m having a hard time finding even one, much less “all.”
Saturday, 06/23/07
Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign staff
Thomas Collamore
Role: campaign manager.
Background: vice president for corporate public affairs, Altria Group. Official in U.S. Commerce Department under former President George H.W. Bush and aide to Bush when he was vice president.
Michael Toner
Role: general counsel.
Background: Partner in Washington law firm Bryan Cave. Member of the Federal Election Commission, 2002-07. General counsel to 2000 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign and Republican National Committee.
Mark Corallo
Role: spokesman during pre-campaign period. Role in campaign uncertain.
Background: spokesman for former Attorney General John Ashcroft; communications director for House Government Reform Committee, 1992-2002 (the counterpart to the Senate committee Thompson headed).
John and Jim McLaughlin,
McLaughlin Associates.
Role: pollsters.
Background: polled for 21 sitting members of Congress and numerous former members. Also polled for the Republican National Committee, National Republican Senatorial Committee and Republican Governors Association.
Tim Griffin
Role: researcher.
Background: U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 2006-07; special assistant to President Bush, 2005; special assistant to U.S. attorney, 2001-2002; research director for Bush-Cheney campaign 2004.
Ed McFadden
Role: adviser.
Background: chief speechwriter for former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Ken Reitz
Role: adviser.
Background: senior counselor at Washington-based political campaign and advertising firm 360Advantage. Deputy chairman and political director of Republican National Committee; founding partner of Curb Records.
Nelson Warfield
Role: adviser.
Background: conservative consultant. Spokesman for Sen. Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign.
Jon Henke
Role: new-media consultant.
Background: works for New Media Strategies. Former new-media adviser for Senate Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Burson Snyder
Role: campaign spokeswoman.
Background: spokeswoman for House Minority Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo.
POLICY TEAM
Lawrence Lindsey
Role: economic policy adviser.
Background: former chief economic adviser to President Bush. Chief economic adviser for the 2000 Bush presidential campaign. Federal Reserve board of governors 1991-97.
David McIntosh
Role: domestic policy adviser.
Background: former House member from Indiana, 1995-2001. Former aide to Vice President Dan Quayle.
Mark Esper
Role: foreign policy adviser.
Background: former director of national security affairs for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee. Worked as deputy assistant secretary of defense, policy director of the House Armed Services Committee, and other congressional roles. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point, served with the 101st Airborne Division in first Persian Gulf War.
http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070623/NEWS0206/706230349/1016/NEWS02
As of April no. Check out the link here!
Matalin - Baker - Thatcher - Rumsfeld - Gingrich, come to mind real fast...
ROFL...
I just answered you...
You’ve been lying about Thompson all day on this thread. You have no credibility here, not with me.
You said, Reagan "was a Democrat most of his life". He wasn't! Reagan was a Republican for 42 years, he was a Democrat for 30 years. You said Reagan "was liberal on many things". He wasn't! As POTUS Reagan battled liberalism and socialism his entire Presidency.
>>>>>>Thompson is more like Reagan than any other candidate.
I'd say Duncan Hunter is more like Reagan then Fred Thompson is. Just that Hunter hasn't caught on, so far. Both men are good conservatives.
>>>>>Still think I don’t know the real Reagan?
You got that right!
Matalin was a low-level staffer with the RNC back then.
Baker was the king of the Senate RINOs.
Thatcher is a former head of a foreign power.
Where are you getting your information that Rumsfeld is an advisor to Thompson?
Gingrich still has delusions about running himself.
Your claim has proven to be a steaming pile of BS, frankly.
Typical lies for you....
I said “advisors” not campaign employees...
Do you know the difference liar?
You’re so full of yourself that if someone poked you hard you’d explode.
I think one could make a good case that the US Senate, as currently constituted, is also "antithetical to a sovereign, conservative America". Yet people such as Jeff Sessions, Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn have chosen to align themselves with it. Should men such as these be precluded from the White House because of their association and membership in this astoundingly corrupt institution?
If they and a few others had not been there in the Senate recently would it have been possible to stop the illegal amnesty bill? By their efforts, and with our help, the application of government power, the "will of the Senate", as Arlen Specter so arrogantly put it, was altered in a manner favorable to the Republic. Would it have been better if they had all expressed their distaste for the brazenly corrupt process by which this legislation was being rammed-through and just resigned?
The principle is the same. In order for good men to positively affect the exercise of power, they have to be where the power is, whether that is the US Congress, the Presidency, the Judiciary, or even powerful NGOs such as the CFR.
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