Posted on 10/16/2007 3:48:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last night, Fred spoke before members of New York’s Conservative Party. The New York Times wrote,
Appearing publicly for the first time since his first Republican debate a week ago, former Senator Fred D. Thompson traveled to New York yesterday, to the hometown of Rudolph W. Giuliani, to challenge his rival’s credibility on issues important to conservatives.
“I am the consistent conservative,” Mr. Thompson said to several dozen people at a gathering of the New York Conservative Party with former Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato at his side. “I was a conservative yesterday. I am a conservative today, and I will be a conservative tomorrow.”
It is not the time for Republicans who think the best way to beat Democrats is to become more like them, he said.
National Review Online has video. Here’s another video clip to give you a sense of Fred’s determination before New York conservatives [via Blogs for Fred Thompson].
Today in Washington, D.C., Fred talked to the Republican Jewish Coalition aim at the Democrats. Jim Geraghty reports:
Fred begins with his talk about principles. He uses the ‘we have shed more blood’ line again, and gets a respectable level of applause.
“If you need some help, you’ll get it, but if you can help yourself, you ought to. That’s the kind of country I was raised in, the kind of country we have, and the kind of country that we must protect at all costs.”
Fred talks about the “windfall” that Democrats expect from eliminating Bush’s tax cuts on the rich.
“They also tell us if we just bring the troops home, the wicked wild world will not harm us any more.”
Thompson says the Democrats’ plans are path to “comfortable mediocrity that would bring us neither peace nor prosperity…. The liberal philosophy must be rejected at all costs.”
“This war will be with us when our problems in Iraq are in our rear-view mirror… The American people need to understand that.”
“I was a conservative yesterday. I am a conservative today, and I will be a conservative tomorrow.”
Yup. A week ago I broke down and put a couple of FDT bumperstickers on my car. Tancredo and Hunter just do not seem to be getting traction and Fred is light years better than Romney the flipflopper and Ghouliani.
Comfortable mediocrity?
I sincerely wish it were not true, but Fred Thompson’s entire career has been nothing and continues to be nothing but comfortable mediocrity.
That is why he will get my support.
I believe he says we have shed more blood than all the others combined.
Democrats: Comfortably Dumb.
We have shed more blood in the pursuit of freedom than all the other countries combined.
There is nothing mediocre about the evil that Democrats do.
Oh, please tell us about your candidate and his or her exploits.
Something like that is the complete quote...
>I was a conservative yesterday. I am a conservative today, and I will be a conservative tomorrow.<
Fred Thompson might be a great guy, but he is just more of the same ole same ole globalist agenda.
All true conservatives will vote for Duncan Hunter, the only proven conservative running for a change of direction for the country.
Six days ago a man, just retired from the service after 22 years and having served a few in Iraq knocked on my car window in the parking lot, extolling my Duncan Hunter bumper sticker, and how great he thinks the Congressman is. I asked him if he wanted some bumper stickers, which he did,
After quite a while talking together he said that the media has it all wrong. We are winning in Iraq. Things are going very well there. Our service men and women are bright, determined and enthusiastic there. His 18 yr. old son just enlisted so he can serve in Iraq. This man will be helping me work for DH in my county.
I’ve also brought conservative Democrats onto the Hunter Express! Everyone who sees and hears him loves him!
http://www.youtube.com/RasterMasterTV
LLS
I am supporting FDT. I just hope that he is ready for the fight. I would not use the word “mediocre” to describe the dims. I know that you cannot use precise words like traitor, Marxist, treacherous, and criminal. I would settle for words like misguided, delusional, ignorant, and ruinous.
Fred is much better than the other so-called “front-runners.” Rudy, Romney and McCain are all a big laughingstock. Supporting Fred in the general election is a no-brainer if he’s nominated. Course he should choose Mark Sanford or another young rising conservative star as a running mate instead of somebody like Jeb Bush.
Correction: I meant amongst the top three. Hunter is also from the heart. Sorry.
LLS
I was at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Candidate’s Forum today, due to a bit of luck. I got to see Brownbeck, Giuliani, McCain, Romney, and Thompson.
I know we can gripe about our candidates, and now is the time to ask the tough questions. But I was impressed by all five. These were all serious people who understood the threat to our civilization. If the Republicans talk this way throughout the campaign, I think voters will respond.
Giuliani and Romney were the stars of the day. They both give good speeches, and really took the time to answer people’s questions instead of giving poll-tested mush. Brownbeck was a pleasant surprise. The media has dismissed him as a lightweight, but he’s a smart guy with a clear understanding of foreign policy.
McCain gave a good presentation as well. He asserted that he thought the surge was a good idea in 2003, and supported it now. He would make a very good Secretary of Defense in the next administration. The forum was mostly on foreign policy, which is a strength of McCain’s. He didn’t have to try to defend McCain-Feingold.
Thompson is a good man, but he was the only one who uttered poll-driven cliches and rambled. On the other hand, he gave a gutsy answer when he said Jonathan Pollard shouldn’t be pardoned. The crowd was divided on that one. Thompson’s defense of Federalism was also an important point to have in the discussion.
If Bush had been a candidate, I think he would have been one of the least appealing candidates there. Bush simply can’t articulate a vision on foreign policy the way Brownbeck, Giuliani, McCain, and Romney can.
Bush is not a bad president. But our current Republican crop is so much better than the Republican crop from the year 2000.
Flame away.
No, we will vote for Fred. Most of the true conservatives have never heard of Hunter.
Amazing how that simple fact seems so difficult for some to understand. I'm sure Hunter's a great guy and all, but he spent 25 years in the House ... and still nobody's heard of him. That's a killing blow for any candidate.
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