Posted on 07/25/2007 2:45:18 AM PDT by ari-freedom
You're Fred Thompson. As a former U.S. senator you had a pleasant and lucrative career acting in a tv show. Then an opening unexpectedly appeared in the contest for the GOP nomination, because there were no candidates acceptable to conservatives. The most important issue to conservatives was immigration. You made a few general statements indicating a readiness to enforce our country's immigration laws and guard its borders. These comments immediately translated into significant popular support and turned you into a viable prospect for the Republican nomination, even though you had not formally declared your candidacy. Then you appointed as your campaign manager former U.S. senator Spencer Abraham from Michigan. Abraham is most famous as an arrogant open-borders fanatic in his work as chairman of the Senate immigration sub-committee in the late 1990s. He was so bad on immigration that in 2000 Michigan conservatives and Republicans voted for Spencer's challenger, pro-abortion liberal Democrat Debbie Stabenow, in order to drive Spencer from the Senate. Abraham lost his Senate seat because of his commitment to open borders, pure and simple.
Are you not aware that it was your statements on immigration that, mild as they were, gave you a shot at the presidency? ...
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I'm one of the idiots who actually voted for Jimmy Carter. Hopefully, God will forgive me...and Fred Thompson wouldn't mind my support.
I agree, picking Abraham is not an encouraging sign.
What was wrong with Jack Kemp, he was from the geographic opposite state of N.Y. (quite a few electoral votes there, also), and had quite a following among conservatives. Kemp, instead, was relegated to oblivion, being appointed to a politically-neutering cabinet post.
I have to plead guilty to voting for Jimmuh also. I was so angry at Ford and his rinos rigging the nomination against Reagan I went completely off the deep end.
Darn, I'd have gone for Moses.
I always liked Jack Kemp but if his performance when he ran with Bob Dole is any indicator he would not have been very successful. I got real excited when Dole chose him and have to admit I have not been more disappointed before or since.
Do you get the idea a Duncan hunter or Ron Paul fan is lurking close by.
There are other candidates interested in closing the border...
Romney, for one. Several second-tier candidates, as well. Hunter and Tancredo, for instance.
Either one of them would be far preferable to Julie Annie who as far as I can tell is just a male clone of mrs Clinton ("My positions on most things are the same as Mrs Clinton's" I believe is what he said at one point)
Oh really now! Is that why he chose him twice? And they both seemed to get along just fine, didn’t they? He could have chosen someone else for VP for the second term if he hadn’t wanted GHWB, couldn’t he? Could you explain yourself?
Oh and by the way, I heard and read GHWB say one time in an interview that he couldn’t have had a nicer employer in RR! He had all kinds of praise for RR!
Kemp didn’t get that Cabinet post until Bush, Sr. gave it to him in 1989. Truth be told, I’m rather glad he didn’t get the VP slot, because while Kemp is a nice man with some interesting ideas, his judgment with respect to whom to form alliances with was shockingly naive. He wanted the GOP to make common-cause with the likes of Louis Farrakhan in order to get Black votes. Yeah, angry Black Muslim Republicans that believe that the Mother Ship is coming for them to pick them up and kill Whitey. Lord Almighty.
Reminds me of a funny story. Back in the 1920s and ‘30s, one of the Senate leaders was a Conservative Republican from New Hampshire named George Moses. In those days, San Francisco elected equally Conservative Republicans to Congress, and at the time, was represented by a Jewish Conservative Republican named Florence Kahn. When liberals would criticize her for her votes, they’d blast her for following Moses’ lead. She’d swiftly reply, “I’m a Jew. Who ELSE would I follow but Moses ?” ;-)
Well, I kind of went by his overall performance in office and the effect he had on the GOP. Bill Clinton was the result. Justice Souter (oxymoron?) is another issue.
BUSH IS A GOLBALIST AND ALWAYS WILL BE.
“If Fred is not for closing the border—we’re dead.
By “we” I mean THE WHOLE BLEEPING COUNTRY—not just the GOP.”
The Fred supporters have plenty of research on everything Fred. If it exists, I’d like to see anything that states specifically HOW he intends to effectively secure the border.
How many times have you been banned from FreeRepublic?
You are most often identified with whom you closely associate. For the life of me, I don’t understand why Thompson would want Abraham in any position. What has Abraham ever accomplished? His flaming support for open borders should make any true conservative candidate recoil in horror. I have grave concerns about Mr. Thompson now.
Thompson just lost. Bad pick, bad judgment.
You just joined to post this? LOL!
Methinks you may not last long...
Jack Kemp was a student of Jude Wanniski, the founder of supply side economics. While Jack couldn’t accept Jude’s wacky pro-Islam, anti-Israel views, some of it must have rubbed off on him.
No, he didn’t “lose.” He just has a lot of explaining to do. He can’t simply expect to be nominated simply because he isn’t McCain, Romney or Giuliani.
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