Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 09/16/2007 11:06:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The waiting for Fred is over; Harry Cato is on board. Fred Thompson entered the Republican presidential race early this month and was immediately endorsed by Cato, an influential South Carolina state legislator who had been courted by the other candidates. He was taken by Thompson's Tennessee roots and down-home charm. "He reminds me of my granddaddy," Cato said.
Cato, a middle-of-the-roader by South Carolina Republican standards, likes Thompson's ideological profile.
"He's a conservative," Cato, 49, said while sitting in the office of the trucking-supply company he runs in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. "But I'm not looking for a zealot."
Ten miles away, in the heart of the far right of the South Carolina conservative movement, Steve Jones, the president of Bob Jones University, said Thompson, 65, was one of a few Republican candidates who would be welcome on the campus.
The other major contender, Jones said, would be Mitt Romney, although some at the university, a fundamentalist Christian institution, are "having a hard time getting over" his Mormon religion.
A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll this month showed Thompson narrowly ahead of Rudolph Giuliani in South Carolina, with John McCain well back in third and Romney, despite an extensive advertising campaign, stuck in single digits.
Any possibility for a Thompson nomination must include a win in South Carolina.
Thompson, a former U.S. senator and TV actor, needs a respectable showing in Iowa and New Hampshire, likely to be the first tests next January. When the race heads to his native South, there is no substitute for victory. Republicans in South Carolina are scheduled to hold their primary on Jan. 19, which they expect to be before any other contest in the region.
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There’s no way the South is going to go for a gun grabbing, gay rights supporting abortionist NY liberal, or a washed out turncoat RINO, or a wishy washy Massachusetts moderate with big government ideas, or an antiwar moonbat. FRed is the man! Run, FRed, Run!!
I agree with this article that South Carolina is a must-win primary for Fred, and I agree with you, Jim, that Fred will get the job done there. Rudy’s gonna have his skirt up over his head after S.C. and it will get no better for him from there on out.
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Fred “Tommy Gun” Thompson for 2008!
There are some deep diggers on FR also...
Give it time.
Come on, you’re just messin’ with us...
Heh heh..
Oh yeah, shoot'em up.
I know it's not really a Tommy gun.
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Fred reminds me of YOU, Jim.
Unapologetically unique and principled with rock solid convictions.
Awesome photo, W04man.
Embracing his family, embracing America.
Bump!
Fred has this proud South Carolinian vote. GO FRED!
That’s OK, it will do! Here is to you.
Isn’t the drum 100 rounds?
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