Posted on 11/05/2007 4:01:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’ll ping that...
And it gets tiresome. Thompson is the only candidate I've ever heard of who cites getting a girl pregnant and marrying her at 17 as a qualification for the Presidency.
It is sort of like what Mark Twain said about Benjamin Franklin:
Benjamin Franklin was always proud of telling how he entered Philadelphia, for the first time, with nothing in the world but two shillings in his pocket and four rolls of bread under his arm. But really, when you come to examine it critically, it was nothing. Anybody could have done it.
Typical Willardian twisting of the truth. How snide can you be?
So does the Romney Sleaze Machine.
“He’s the people’s candidate,” she said. “I believe he can relate to people because he worked his way up.”
Indeed he trully is potentially the people’s candidate because of his roots. However, IMHO, his “FREDERALISM” (the senator’s federalism) on issues like abortion and the homosexual agenda are severely hurting his chances of being the GOP nominee. On many to most issues being a “Frederalist” will set well, but on these two issues, it is upseting the moral/social/values base of the GOP. If that base fractures and splits it votes to Huckabee, Hunter, and even Romney....it will cause the nomination to go to Guiliani. That will spell the end to the coalition that once was the GOP. Merely standing in opposition to Clinton is not enough to hold the coalition together.
Fred Thompson has the greatest potential to reach across the entire party, but he must secure the base. He must modify his “Frederalism” to do so. That, of course, is only my opinion. I have been wrong before, on many occasions.
The only thing twisting is your panties in a bunch, Petronski. Fred was asked in the Orlando debate whether he was lazy, and Fred responded by citing his accomplishments. Prominent among the accomplishments Fred cited was procreation and matrimony at the age of 17. It isn't snide, it is the truth. How Fred having to get married at the age of 17 relates to his abilities at President at the age of 65 I don't know, but that is what Fred brings up repeatedly.
_________________________________________________________transcript:
GOLER: Senator Thompson, reporters on your campaign say your stumbles on the Terry Schiavo case and on the issue of oil drilling in the Everglades show that you don't do your homework.
The week after, though -- you took a week off after the last debate. Speech yesterday was about five minutes long. Some people say you're lazy, sir.
How do you deal with that?
(LAUGHTER)
THOMPSON: Well -- no, it's OK. Let me answer that.
I was a father at the age of 17 and a husband at the age of 17. I got started working in a factory. I borrowed and worked my way through. My folks did what they could to help. They were country folks -- came in off the farm.
I was able to be an assistant U.S. attorney when I was 28, prosecuting most of the major federal crimes in middle Tennessee -- most of the major ones.
THOMPSON: Howard Baker selected me to go to Washington and be his counsel on the Watergate Committee at the age of 30.
I came back, took on a corrupt state administration, and won against them. I went to the United States Senate, got elected twice by 20 points in a state that Bill Clinton carried twice.
Condoleezza Rice called upon me to head up an international security advisory board to advise her on international security matters. President Bush called me to help shepherd Chief Justice -- now-Chief Justice John Roberts' nomination through the Judiciary Committee.
If a man can do all that and be lazy, I recommend it to everybody.
Whether "anyone" could have done it is debatable. The point is, only Ben Franklin (like Fred Thompson) DID do it! Almost anyone can become a millionaire or celebrity in America, but how many attain that status? Thompson is a successful lawyer, film and television actor, politician, consultant, intelligence advisor, father, husband, and more! He steered Chief Justice John Roberts through his nomination process, took down a crooked governor, counseled the Watergate committee, chaired the Senate Government Affairs committee and MUCH MORE!
Fred is a good man. He’s like a cross between Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln.
...cites getting a girl pregnant and marrying her at 17 as a qualification for the Presidency.
You make it sound like he said "I'm qualified to be president because I got a girl pregnant when I was 17."
His obvious point, your sneering aside, is that after she became pregnant, he manned up, married her and raised the child. It's about character.
Roll on, Romney Sleaze Machine. Roll on.
The Romney Sleaze Machine never stops.
Didn’t see the debate and don’t have a dog in the fight, but I understand what he is saying. It makes sense to me and is certainly worth pointing out. Rising from humble and hard beginnings to the status where he is now is impressive to me.
LLS
And the point is, if at age 65 he needs cite this as a qualification for the Presidency it is only because his qualifications are so weak.
Roll on, Romney Sleaze Machine. Roll on.
Sleaze? I posted a friggin' Mark Twain quote and a debate transcript. That is sleaze? If you are accusing me of posting sleaze, then tell me what is the sleaze you are referring to exactly? If you can't tell me where the sleaze is, it is just more Petronski monkey-poop throwing personal attack, which is all that you can do, apparently, beside posting spam.
What the heck is a “methodical drawl”?!?
You hate them because they remind you of dims... same ethical problems and same modus operandi.
LLS
Without a doubt, Fred’s simple common man populist patriotic image is his biggest asset. There is sort of the Perot appeal to him.
Definitely, there is going to be something sort of like a class divide between the Romney and Fred supporters. It’s like being from different parts of town I suppose.
I think Fred Thompson has the capability to bring this Party together, if not the Conservative middle.
Yeah, Mitt's from the left side of town and is trying his hand at carpetbagging over here on the right side of town.
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