Posted on 08/21/2007 9:04:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee, who has not officially declared his presidential ambitions, took a not-very-veiled swipe yesterday at the leading Republican candidate, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, for supporting gun control.
Mr. Thompson, who starred in “Law & Order,” wrote on his Web site: “When I was working in television, I spent quite a bit of time in New York City. There are lots of things about the place I like, but New York gun laws don’t fall in that category.”
Then he decried a recent court ruling on a gun case, writing that “the same activist federal judge from Brooklyn who provided Mayor Giuliani’s administration with the legal ruling it sought to sue gun makers, has done it again.”
The critique amounted to an unusual dive into presidential politicking for a man who is barred under federal rules from acting like a candidate. Mr. Thompson is officially only “testing the waters” of a presidential bid, a status that limits his ability to raise money and engage in active campaigning. But his comments suggest that he is ready to come out against the other contenders in the Republican field.
In his comments, Mr. Thompson went on to suggest that high gun ownership rates may be related to the nation’s low violent crime rates.
The Giuliani campaign responded. “Those who live in New York in the real world — not on TV — know that Rudy Giuliani’s record of making the city safe for families speaks for itself,” said Katie Levinson, the Giuliani campaign’s communications director. “No amount of political theater will change that.”
Mr. Giuliani has been leading consistently in national polls of the Republican field. But his status has also opened him up to increasing scrutiny.
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I concur but Hunter can’t seem to get up enough support.
The next best thing would be Thompson - Hunter ticket.
BTTT!
Fred has been bringing up the 2nd Amendment - even though nobody has asked him about it - with clockwork regularity.
Meanwhile, getting ANY kind of response to a firearm-related question out of the other front-runners is like getting blood out of a rock!
What does that tell you?
If it has to do something with the Constitution of the United States, don't be shy about checking the appropriate sidebar, whatever it is, in this case frontpage.
I can't tell you all of the times that I see commentaries, whether masthead editorials, i.e. staff editorials without bylines, or regular OpEd, i.e. opinion/editorial, columns for a newspaper such as David Brooks for the NY Times which were not checked off for the editorial sidebar.
Many conservative and libertarian websites write excellent commentaries and sometimes frontpage or breaking news.
Those sidebars are there for a reason. Please use them when appropriate. I find that I can add these articles to sidebars by clicking on "TOPICS" after the article. Then you can enter those terms in lower case letters, and they will appear in the appropriate sidebar.
I think the old west history buffs will tell you Earp was not a revered lawman.
not a major issue for you because you are a Romney fan, and Romney is anti Second Amendment
I’m for Hunter since Thompson hasn’t declared. That said, there are the people who cling to this idea that Guiliani is the only one who can beat hillary. Guiliani IS hillary. There are no differences except for one looks slightly better in a dress.
Guiliani’s time to beat hillary was during the senate race and he blew it. He doesn’t deserve another chance at a higher office.
Guiliani is not the conservatives choice. He’s been the media’s choice and that’s why better candidates like Hunter can’t get any attention.
I’ll take Fred over Rudy any day.
I'd like to see more focus on ALL of Guiliani's liberal positions--as Guiliani's disdain for many conservative principles and values need to be highlighted. His discomfort was highlighted in the first debate when he looked like a fool answering the abortion question.
Watching Rudy address his big government gun-grabbing, pro-abortion, pro-Federal funding for abortion, pro-amnesty, pro-sanctuary cities, global warming, pro-litigation and gay rights crusading makes Rudy look more nervous than Bill Clinton in church!!..lol
Let's hope Fred turns up the pressure on ALL of Rudy's liberal positions!! Go Fred, Go!!
Yea, real world. This extended campaigning season is actually great for exposing the real person. Guiliani, you $***!
Fred Thompson bump!
Bingo!! It exposes Rudy's natural liberalism with his SLAM ON FRED BEING AN ACTOR!!!
It sure didn't take long for the tiresome 'ACTOR CARD' to be played against Fred,,,,just like liberals played the 'ACTOR CARD' against Ronald Reagan.
I can't believe that Rudy has ALREADY stooped to that liberal stance,,,,but then again, it's not like Rudy didn't try to distance himself from Reagan in the past.
Playing the 'ACTOR CARD' was something I expected from the democrats. Rudy is absolutely SHAMELESS to play that card, but then again, why am I surprised? He IS a LIBERAL.
know a lot of history buffs and law and order types are on Free Republic and I have a question regarding gun control 2nd Ammendment and such. History tells us in the late 1800’s revered lawmen figures like Wyatt Earp banned guns within city limits of their city (Dodge) how was this accepted (legality ?) and can this be compared to Rudy and his stance on guns when he was Mayor of NYC ?
Fred Thompson has had some rather spotty gun votes in his tenure. To name a few...
Your other one is “Inside DC” trivia, and as irrelevant as all the other GOA smears you omitted (like pretending that letting a Clinton Surgeon General nomination go to a vote on the Senate floor is “anti-gun.”)
I am rabidly pro gun, and Fred impresses me most by his expression of the principle that gun-control is about authoritarianism.
Certainly, he is better than any President in my lifetime on the gun issue, and he is miles better than any current contender.
Huckabee and Hunter might take solid pro-gun stands, but only Freed has the talent to express the position in a way that can win over people in the middle, making gun rights sound reasonable and non-threatening.
Let’s not forget Mittens Romney when he talk about gungrabbers.
It’s great to see Fred take some political shots at Rudy liberal positions.
Run against Rudy now. Ignore Mitt (his real competition) and merely demonstrate that he is more conservative. (Mitt would just say “but I agree with you Fred” anyway, so others can remind voters about Mitt’s expeditious conversion.)
It will demonstrate his capability to run against Hillary.
“...The second ammendment was written to help us identify America’s traitors...”
Well hit! Outta the park!
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