Fred Thompson names anti-Israel ex-senator as campaign manager [NOT]

Israel Today ^ | July 29, 2007

[Blood of Tyrants]

You aren’t voting for Spencer Abraham. Abraham is just an EMPLOYEE of the Thompson campaign.

[ExTexasRedhead]

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.

[Willow25]

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:

[Sudetenland]

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!

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.

[Plains Drifter]

“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.

[Sudetenland]

Would that there were a few more-strike that-lot more level heads around here.

I have never come across such an extreme level of emotionalism...coming form "conservatives."

Rationality and reason are supposed to be the very core of a conservatives being. Emotionalism is supposed to be the province of the Looney Left...I see now that I have apparently been wrong in this assumption of the rational right.

I suppose I owe the moronic denizens at DU and dailyKos an apology.

[Beagle8U]

“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.

[Sudetenland]

Ahhh...I see, you're one of those who, when faced with reasoned argument, resorts to name calling and personal insults. What's the matter got no rational response. You think because you've been lurking around these webpages longer than I, you are somehow better than I? Somhow spending more time on Freerepublic makes you smarter than am I? Bwaahhaaahhaahaa!!!

Boy talk about self-delusion. The truth hurts doesn't it? You don't like Rudy, so you'll make certain that Hillary gets elected...that's real mature of you...or maybe, you just like Hillary. Is that it? You think that Hillary's Socialist State is the fulfillment of the dreams of our founders?

I am not a Rooty-toot-tooter. If I was, I wouldn't be hanging around here, but I do know the difference between a rational decision to support the tolerably left of center Rudy and making a choice which will insure the election of the neo-Stalinists that are currently the front runners for the Democrat nomination.

If you believe that seniority here at Freerepublic somehow confers superior conservative credentials on you than others have, then you've been smoking some pretty good halucinagens.

Free Republic is a great website. It serves a very great and noble cause, but it is not the be all and end all of Conservative thought.

[pissant]

*applause*

[Petronski]

As a potential Thompson supporter, this just ruined my support for Thompson for me. Major mistake on Thompson’s part, IMO.

How's your "support for Thompson" doing now that the story's been discredited and corrected?

[Petronski]

Now, Fred Thompson has gone and hired Open Border Spence as his acting campaign manager...

Not true.

[marsh_of_mists]

But how is his treatment of Isreal any different from other foreign nations? I bet you he would vote against any non-binding resolution stating any opinion about any foreign nation as being worthless, superfluous and imperious (and also as lending credence to the UN).

[marsh_of_mists]

Hunter has a poor record on fiscal conservatism and reining in the power of federal government

Fair enough, but can you provide some specific examples or point me to where I can find them? Perhaps I haven't vetted him thoroughly enough.

[ellery]

Hunter voted in favor of the biggest entitlement expansion of our generation -- the Medicare prescription drug bill. Out-of-control entitlement spending is a serious threat to our national security as it puts more debt into foreign hands and skews the "guns or butter" economic choice toward butter. Entitlement spending is the worst kind, because it's the hardest to cut. With the baby boomer retirements looming, we already have a dire problem -- Hunter voted to make that problem much worse. Below are some more examples of his poor fiscal record.

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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

[Sun]

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.

[marsh_of_mists]

Thank you. I didn’t know about a lot of that.

[ellery]

No problem — FReegards.