Posted on 07/26/2007 9:04:06 AM PDT by pissant
In my 2002 book Invasion (p. 71, 76), I noted the open-borders obstructionism of former Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-Michigan), who fought to block the implementation of two different tracking databases–one for foreign student visa holders and the other for all temporary visitors (which was mandated by Section 110 of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act). Abraham led efforts to starve the first database of funding and crusaded several times to kill Section 110 altogether. On September 11, 2001, neither of those databases was in place. To this day, they remain incomplete.
Now, Fred Thompson has gone and hired Open Border Spence as his acting campaign manager:
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, who hasn’t officially entered the presidential race, is shaking up his campaign staff, replacing his acting campaign manager with a former Michigan senator and a Florida Republican strategist.
Thompson spokeswoman Linda Rozett said acting campaign manager Tom Collamore, former vice president of food and tobacco giant Altria, still will advise the campaign. Collamore has helped organize the campaign for Thompson, who has not officially jumped into the race.
Thompson has established a “testing the waters” committee that allows him to raise money for a presidential bid. He is expected to formally kick off his candidacy in September, after the Labor Day holiday.
“The Friends of Fred Thompson have made a number of changes as they prepare to enter the next phase, adding new experience and political strength to the organization,” Rozett said.
Replacing Collamore will be Randy Enright, who has served as Florida regional political director for the Republican National Committee, and Spencer Abraham, the former senator who lost his bid for re-election in 2000 to Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Bad, bad move. If the Fred campaign is trying to win over grass-roots conservatives, this is a dumb way to do it.
Debbie Schlussel has followed the soft-on-terrorism career of Spencer Abraham. Yikes.
FYI
Very unsettling.
Also unsettling is the word that some Bush II operatives, including son of Jeb, are worling for Thompson.
Hunter is looking better and better.
Bummer.
Hunter has always looked better, but until this move, I was willing to compromise and support Thompson if he were to get the nomination.
Now I’m not. It’s that simple.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871903/posts?page=57#57
Debbie Schlussel said the same: http://www.debbieschlussel.com/
This guy will have a major role in Thompson’s campaign and I don’t like it.
Think Thompson is having a hard time finding his campaign manager because of the “late” start. First he had a guy from the tobacco industry that would have been a big liability on that basis alone if he had kept him.
That said, what you say in the campaign defines the first months in office, when you can really get things done, so it’s worrying that his current campaign manager is open borders. Campaign managers help define the candidates message, obviously. What is worrying is that if F. Thompson turns out not to be the “savior” conservatives are banking on, and if they don’t turn to Duncan Hunter and build up his funds and support, when F. Thompson flames out or soft-pedals conservative issues, we are left with Romney and Guilianni ONLY.
Duncan Hunter should be built up, regardless of hopes for F. Thompson, or conservatives could get seriously railroaded again like we did with Bush I and Bush II.
"...fought to block the implementation of two different tracking databases – one for foreign student visa holders and the other for all temporary visitors..." This is Spence's handiwork as chairman of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, where he could have done some actual good, but chose instead to stymie law enforcement. Suppose Thompson were to get elected. Would Spence be named Secretary of Homeland Security? All of this is making my stomach turn.
Who will be making the final decisions, Thompson or someone else? We need to stop eating our own here.
LOL! Michelle must have read my post here yesterday about this. ;-)
A new package full of the same old manure.
So Malkin is wrong?
I just removed Thompsons’ name from my tagline.........I take this very seriously. I have been betrayed by Bush, I am much more wary NOW.
Thanks for that link.
I didn’t know all this.
I guess Thompson is kaput.
Only Hunter is the decent candidate. And I will put Thompson in the same parcel as JulieAnnie and McCainez - he’ll never get my vote.
If the Repubs blow this one, its third party time. This is their last chance - they are on probation.
We're trying to figure out who is "our own" here. If a candidate is pushing something besides conservatism, shouldn't we know it?
Based on his choice of campaign manager, Thompson is as conservative as JulieAnnie.
I cannot say for sure that Spencer Abraham is a bumbling idiot. But I can say for sure that he is a bumbler.
Amen! I want to know lots more, I hid my head with Bush on immigration, NOT again! Immigration is THE hot button issue in the next election.......Thompson has made a MAJOR gaffe.
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