Posted on 09/13/2007 3:03:06 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Thompson, contrary to his current memories, was deeply involved in expanding government restrictions on political speech generally and the ban on issue ads specifically. Yet he told Ingraham "I voted for all of it," meaning McCain-Feingold, but said "I don't support that" provision of it.
Oh? Why, then, did he file his own brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold McCain-Feingold, stressing Congress' especially "compelling interest" in squelching issue ads that "influence" elections?
Most lamely, Thompson takes credit for McCain-Feingold doubling the amount of "hard money" an individual can give to a candidate, which he says reduces the advantages of incumbency. But that is absurd: Most hard money flows to incumbe
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"Right now"? He has been living "up there" in that upscale inside-the-Beltway Washington suburb, honing his "Aw, shucks, I'm just an ol' Washington outsider" act, for years. Long enough to have noticed that McLean is planted thick with churches. Going to church is, of course, optional - unless you are aiming to fill some supposed piety void in the Republican field.
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What is most amazing is how many Freepers have fallen head over heels for Fred. What little of Fred’s Senate career I do remember, is that he was basically to John McCain what Lindsay Graham is now. McCain’s lap dog.
But he’s an actor so he must be another Reagen I guess.
I will wait to hear more specifics from Fred. But unlike others, I’ve hardly been impressed with what I’ve heard so far.
Just a note - your link goes to page 2 of a 2-page article.
Our choices suck.
Rudy isn’t a conservative at all, Romney can’t be trusted and their guys are now blasting away at Thompson. lol. Maybe we’ll get Duncan Hunter when the smoke clears
Considering who else is running, I'm amazed more haven't done so. Liberals, flip-floppers and losers all (even if I like some of them, theyre going nowhere).
>>Thompson, contrary to his current memories, was deeply involved in expanding government restrictions on political speech generally and the ban on issue ads specifically. Yet he told Ingraham “I voted for all of it,” meaning McCain-Feingold, but said “I don’t support that” provision of it.
Oh? Why, then, did he file his own brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold McCain-Feingold, stressing Congress’ especially “compelling interest” in squelching issue ads that “influence” elections? <<<
Hmmmm
OK, we have to look into this.
Barring a Hunter surge Thompson is the most conservative of the front runners. Thats enough for me. If establishmentarian George Will wanted to write a similar article on Rudy or Romney it would have to be a 6-parter
So far, little enthusiasm for anyone else has piqued(2) my movement from the Hunter camp.
This is too funny to watch the fear in the Rooty McRomneys over Fred’s entry into the race and his ensuing race to the top of the polls. Here’s a secret, Fred was drafted by conservative those of us who were nauseous at the choices we had in the “top tier”.
My prediction back in April was that when Fred came in conservatives in the party would flock to him because he would be the only non-RINO in the race. That’s playing out as we speak and those millions of us who urged him to run after looking at his Senate voting record AREN’T GOING ANYWHERE despite the ramblings of an effete, bowtie wearing east coast scribbler.
Is Fred a “perfect conservative”? No, (nobody is)but he’s head and shoulders above the flip-floppin Mormon and the cross-dressing gun grabber and the wide open borders guy from Arizona.
Fred was begged to enter the race by those of us who didn’t want to have to hold our nose when we entered the voting booth next November. If the movement in the state and national polls less than a week since Fred entered are any indicator, we won’t have to.
Bob Beckel: “Fred Thompson is the Left’s worst nightmare”.
If establishmentarian George Will wanted to write a similar article on Rudy or Romney it would have to be a 6-parter
As I have said before, George Will has delusions that he's Tom Wolfe. He is not. He's a wannabe who wishes people thought he was urbane and yet one with "the little guy" but as you point out he's boringly lame in the Rockefeller Republican (i.e. liberal republican) tradition. He's a countryclubitarian.
I had a George Will book, it was a collection of columns or something.... terribly boring and unimpressive
Not only has Fred distanced himself from this error in judgment, he has come out for repeal of core features of this law and has publicly stated as much.
he is the MOST CONSERVATIVE of the electable Republicans...(and I wish Duncan Hunter could win it all, but it ain’t in the cards....)
Hey if we there were no mistakes, there would be no erasers on pencils.
Thompson/Hunter ‘08
I have to second your opinion. It seems the other three - Rudy, Romney, and McCainiac - were all picked for us by the elite/media. I think guys like Fred and Duncan Hunter scare the elite/media because - more or less- they are real and inspire the grassroots to come out for them.
Well said, Neville72.
I’ve been a staunch and active conservative since my now departed father gave me a copy of Atlas Shrugged for my 22nd birthday in 1976. I was raised in Louisiana but lived for extended periods of time in Colorado, Virginia and Florida over the years and participated in retail, grassroots campaigning for state and national elections in all. My political radar is pretty good and I knew that my queeziness over having to pick the least of three evils wasn’t something that was restricted to me and me alone.
The polls are now bearing that out as those conservatives who’ve been sitting on the sidelines waiting, now given a REAL choice, begin to come home.
This issue has been handled.
Will is just back to his old ankle-biting self. He will do or say anything to hinder the Conservative side of whatever issue.
HC will be the next President. We need to come to terms with this.
I will, as always, support our nominee...but, the Country will put this lying scum in OUR White House.
But I do think his supporters are projecting values and policy positions on to him that he doesn't necessarily hold.
They're posting Fred quotes from "Hunt for Red October", for heaven's sake, as if Admiral Painter were real and were running for President.
Time will tell.
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