Posted on 07/29/2007 3:56:17 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, who has yet to officially announce his candidacy, has chosen as his new campaign manager and ex-senator who is reviled by many within the party for being soft on Islamic terrorism and an enemy of the Jewish state.
As of last week, Thompson's campaign is being run by former Michigan senator Spencer Abraham, who is best known for his total opposition to almost any form of realistic border control between the US and Mexico.
But Abraham, who is a Christian of Lebanese descent, has also carved out an image of himself as a facilitator and supporter of anti-US and anti-Israel Islamic fundamentalism.
During his one term in the Senate, Spencer was the driving force behind a bill that granted more than $250 million in US taxpayers' money to Hizballah-controlled southern Lebanon. Nearly every penny went into the terror group's pocket.
His next move was to exhort American Muslim Association (AMA) director Agha Saeed as a positive influence on the US political scene. That despite the fact that the AMA had recently sponsored events that incited violence against the Jews and upheld Hizballah and Hamas as models for Muslims everywhere.
In 2000, just months before his electoral defeat and the end of his short legislative career, Spencer was one of only two senators who refused to sign an open letter condemning escalating terrorist attacks by Yasser Arafat's PLO against Israeli civilians.
It was previously reported that Thompson was planning to visit Israel in the coming months in order to gain more perspective on the Middle East peace process. That visit, if it still happens, is expected to take on a whole different tone with Spencer Abraham in charge of Thompson's schedule.
You aren’t voting for Spencer Abraham. Abraham is just an EMPLOYEE of the Thompson campaign.
I wouldn’t hire someone, regardless of their abilities, if they’re part of the anti-Israel crowd. Perception means a lot especially when your enemies use it against you. Not a wise move.
Fred Thompson and Spencer Abraham: Bad combo
By Michelle Malkin • July 26, 2007 11:41 AM 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:
It will be a pro life, pro gun, pro family, anti tax conservative or I’ll be looking 3rd party or write-in.I's so proud of you, you have picked the most certain means of getting Hillary/Obama-sama elected. Very clever!
“Fred Thompson made a mistake with this choice. But the perfect candidate doesn’t exist. It certainly doesn’t disqualify him.”
This is very well said. My biggest concern is that he is not an open borders advocate and Fred Thompson does have time to shake this out. So far, none of the candidates is running a perfect campaign.
“I’s so proud of you, you have picked the most certain means of getting Hillary/Obama-sama elected. Very clever!
All it takes is a few “my way or the highway” self-righteous prigs choosing to throw away their vote to insure the worst possible result. We have seen the result of this “clever” protest to show Republicans a lesson in the 2006 election; now we are going to cut off our noses to spite our faces.
YES! Rudy is no prize when it comes to the right to life and gay marriage, he may even be as bad as GHW Bush and Bubba on gun rights, but compared to a Hillary administration with people like Chucky “Microphone Moth” Schumer, Harry “Snively Whiplash” Reid, and Bela Pelosi providing her with a rubber stamp to institute a Stalinist regime, I’ll take Rudy any day.
Have a nice life as a slave to the state.”
Look Skippy, you haven’t been here long enough to lecture conservatives on the reasons why they should accept a turd like Rooty as a candidate!
Sell your Rooty crap somewhere else.
*applause*
How's your "support for Thompson" doing now that the story's been discredited and corrected?
Not true.
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He voted to kill a bill that would have provided for meaningful enforcement of balanced budget law (the source is Thomas.gov -- just go there and look up the bill if you want more info):
Budget Enforcement Act of 1997
H.R.2003
Title: To reform the budget process and enforce the bipartisan balanced budget agreement of 1997.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1997/roll300.xml
Then when the bill wasn’t killed, Hunter voted against it: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1997/roll301.xml
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Then in 2000, he bucked the GOP and voted against another bill that aimed to meaningfully enforce the balanced budget amendment:
Comprehensive Budget Process Reform Act
H.R.853
Title: To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for joint resolutions on the budget, reserve funds for emergency spending, strengthened enforcement of budgetary decisions, increased accountability for Federal spending, accrual budgeting for Federal insurance programs, mitigation of the bias in the budget process toward higher spending, modifications in paygo requirements when there is an on-budget surplus, and for other purposes.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2000/roll189.xml
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He also bucked the GOP in 2004 and joined with a party-line democrat vote against the Spending Control Act:
Spending Control Act
H R 4663
Title: To amend part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to establish discretionary spending limits and a pay-as-you-go requirement for mandatory spending. (Note: this was the republican version of “pay-as-you-go” - it only applied to cutting spending to pay for other spending, and did not provide for raising taxes to pay for spending)
http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2004&rollnumber=318
Here’s Michelle Malkin’s take when she was on Laura Ingraham’s show on Monday:
http://fetch.noxsolutions.com/laura/mp3/073007_michelle.mp3
When I mentioned the show, RasterMaster provided the link.
Thank you. I didn’t know about a lot of that.
No problem — FReegards.
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