Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 09/17/2007 2:02:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Go to a Fred Thompson rally and for $5 you can buy an "I'm a Fred-Head" button. But you might not be able, at any price, to learn what exactly is in Fred's head.
After six months of Waiting for Thompson, the former Tennessee senator has arrived on stage. Unfortunately, Thompson's dialogue so far consists of folksy platitudes and broad pronouncements, unobjectionable yet unenlightening.
"We do whatever's necessary, hitch up our britches and come out the other end," Thompson said during a campaign rally in Iowa. He was talking national security, but, hey, a little britch-hitching can't hurt, whatever the issue.
Asked by Fox News's Sean Hannity why he was running, Thompson offered, "I'm determined that we become a stronger, not a weaker nation, and a more united, not a more divided nation, and a more prosperous nation, not less prosperous. And those bad things are distinct possibilities if we take the wrong path." That certainly differentiates him from the pack.
Campaign announcements aren't the venue for densely footnoted position papers. A candidate's stump speech needn't contain policy details precise enough to be translated into legislative language -- and most voters would tune out if it did. Still, given the lengthy "preseason," as Thompson put it, it's reasonable to expect more than he's delivered. A candidate who dismisses debates as "not designed really to illuminate" might provide some, well, illumination.
In Thompson's defense, it is clear he has an overarching, and long-standing, conservative philosophy: for smaller government, limited federal power, less regulation and lower taxes. If Republican voters are understandably edgy about the conservative bona fides of Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani, Thompson may offer a comforting alternative.
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Don't give your enemies ammo and don't talk to left-wing rag reporters. Pretty smart.............
What better recommendation could he get?
Boy, Fred Thompson sure is being lazy. The Washington Post says so!
She got that much right.
I’ve haven’t seen the MSM spend so much time attacking any other candidate.
It’s telling, and quite the compliment.
(Especially such transparent attacks. It’s not like Fred didn’t have a radio show and articles where he spoke/wrote on these issues.)
The looney left is very afraid of Fred Thompson.
Everybody who can plainly see the emperor has no clothes is stupid.
“Boy, Fred Thompson sure is being lazy. The Washington Post says so!”
Being called lazy by the folks who were surprised to find Valerie Plame’s secret identity in “Who’s Who” is kinda funny.
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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She called Fred “folksy”. Everybody has to do a shot.
Is it two shots if they work in “folksy actor” or is that only for “cancer-stricken child-brde marrying”?
It must be painful for the Post to realize their opinion dosn’t matter at all any longer. This is just prattle, third grade prattle at that.
Imagine any self-respecting Republican candidate caring what the comPost thinks.
Hey thanks comPost. If you’re not happy, Fred must be doing something right.
I’m switching to water. I’m worried about my liver...and I don’t want my nose to look like Bill Clinton’s.
Let's make Fred a landslide winner and show them what a mandate really is. Contribute now.
FRiends, read “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth. I don’t generally care much for fiction, but it’s an unusually enlightening and humorous short story.
LOL! That’s great.
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