http://blogsforfredthompson.com/thompson-record-cnbcs-kudlow-company-video-part-1-2-11-15-07
WE'RE GOING TO SEND FRED A THANKSGIVING DAY GIFT!
Posted on 11/15/2007 2:36:10 PM PST by calcowgirl
Thursday, November 15, 2007
What Fred Said [Larry Kudlow]
I just sat down with presidential candidate Fred Thompson, for an interview that will air tonight on Kudlow & Company. The former Tennessee senator was in good form.
He attacked Warren Buffet’s tax-hike proposal on the rich as totally wrong, and Buffett himself as nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Democratic party.
He agreed with Dick Armey that the GOP will lose if it departs from the first principles of limited government and lower tax rates.
He called the farm bill “disgraceful” and would veto it if he were president.
He said Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic candidates are wrong on taxes. He noted that the top 5 percent pay 60 percent of all tax collections now; that the tax code is progressive enough; that there’s plenty of economic mobility in the country; that for those who have fallen behind, the problem is poor education, not tax rates; and that America is the freest, most prosperous, most powerful nation in the history of the world.
Thompson is a staunch free trader. He stood firmly behind his Social Security reform plan that would slow down future benefits and provide for private savings accounts.
(snip)
Go Fred, GO!!!
ouch. But just as long as you’re not JUDGMENTAL — i guess that’s all that counts.
You think being married to only one woman, and NOT getting a girl “pregnant out of wedlock” are strong criteria for the kind of statesman / President we need at the next election?
A little more depth of insight into leadership would probably be good for you, I would imagine.
He who has been forgiven much, forgives much. I want a mature, competent, experienced leader in the White House, not a robot, or some cookie-cutter image of perfection. Are you really that shallow?
hhmm.....
Ronald Reagan had been out of hollywood YEARS after deciding to run for President. I don’t like the fact that he was divorced, but I was too young to vote at that time. I don’t know who was running against him in the Republican primaries.
I am not judgmental to people in general (don’t care what people do), but why not show the weaknesses (yes we all have them but were not all running for president) of a candidate then show a candidate who does not have those weaknesses. Duncan does not have those particular weakneses.
LOL. I'm a glutton for punishment--I like to listen to them all.
I even listened to much of the Dem debate tonight.
Let me guess, you keep a cat-o-nine-tails in the closet. I’m not judging or anything, but self-flaggelation just ain’t my thing. ;)
RR, FDT and others were not of that mind set no matter their involvement in films.
Remember Fred was a successful lawyer first, then an actor, even Reagan can’t say that.
LOL. Nope!
None of that physical punishment stuff!
I watch as a method of learning—kind of that “know thy enemy” stuff.
I honestly think this is a very over rated criteria. I remember Al Gore and John Kerry making the same claim. It still didn't convince me that they would be good Presidents.
He has been around for 26 years.
He does not have the liberal influence of Hollywood behind him.
Interesting comparison. I could make the argument that Hunter's 26 years in elected office would "contaminate" him far more than Thompson's time in "Hollywood." I think there is a reason we tend to elect governors, and that reason is NOT simply executive experience... it is that governors are not multi-decade Washington dealers.
I have no big problems with Hunter, but I think his ideas... the ones that matter in an executive setting... are not as well thought out at this point. If elected president, Hunter will not have any say in amending the constitution. Only a pulpit, and he has that now.
Overall, I think the decision should be based on what we think the man will do as president (and prior to that, as a candidate). I think Hunter would do well. I think Thompson's philosophical underpinnings equip him better to lead. I also think his approach and demeanor will draw more than his share of democrat and independent voters. We aren't voting to reward someone for past good behavior. Looking forward, I see Thompson as a better candidate for both the nomination and for the presidency.
Right! Fred, I don't believe you'll do what you say because someone else didn't do what they said!
http://blogsforfredthompson.com/thompson-record-cnbcs-kudlow-company-video-part-1-2-11-15-07
WE'RE GOING TO SEND FRED A THANKSGIVING DAY GIFT!
Not only that, but I believe the man in question was also at one time, a democrat, and a union head!
bump!
Great interview!
Whatever happened to that “Hunter will pass up Fred in the FR poll by the end of the day....No, it will be by LUNCH!!” thread?
Never heard any more about that. I must have missed that phenomenon.
“Right! Fred, I don’t believe you’ll do what you say because someone else didn’t do what they said!”
What I don’t believe is, when the final political calculations are made, and Congressional support is needed for many parts of a President’s agenda, that ANY President will buck the “farm lobby”. In over sixty years, through GOP and Dims in the White House, none have. Fred’s a nice guy. I even like him. I just don’t expect him to put the political capital of his office on the line - if he were POTUS - to end farm subsidies.
I don’t think the day was specified...
Yeah that’s the ticket.
I don't think he likes the tort reform position.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfiTH5kDJJE
Larry has now turned 180. This is great news.
Note: this topic is from November 15, 2007.Thanks calcowgirl.
He attacked Warren Buffet's tax-hike proposal on the rich as totally wrong, and Buffett himself as nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Democratic party... He said Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic candidates are wrong on taxes. He noted that the top 5 percent pay 60 percent of all tax collections now; that the tax code is progressive enough; that there's plenty of economic mobility in the country; that for those who have fallen behind, the problem is poor education, not tax rates... He stood firmly behind his Social Security reform plan that would slow down future benefits and provide for private savings accounts.
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