Posted on 11/23/2007 3:14:49 PM PST by ansel12
BRISTOL, N.H. (AP) Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said Friday that New York City isn't a model for the rest of the country and that Rudy Giuliani should stop basing his stances on his time as that city's mayor.
Thompson, campaigning at a New Hampshire gun store with stuffed moose and deer overhead, told reporters that Giuliani too often turns to his time as New York mayor to explain his support for stronger gun restrictions.
"He relates everything to New York City. Well, New York City is not emblematic of the rest of the country, I don't think. I think the sentiments of those people in the rest of the country are in support of the Second Amendment which is where I've always been and I don't think he's ever been," Thompson said.
The former Tennessee senator and "Law & Order" actor badly trails Giuliani in New Hampshire polls, in part because Thompson has spent so little time in the state. On Friday, he planned to attend a town hall-style meeting at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall.
Thompson is trying to show differences between himself and Giuliani, who trails former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain in the latest CNN-WMUR-TV poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Giuliani polls at 16 percent, far short of Romney's 33 percent support.
Thompson, who fares relatively well in national polls, posted only 4 percent support.
Gun rights is a key issue among libertarian-leaning primary voters in New Hampshire.
"(Giuliani) simply supported just about every gun control legislation that came down the pike. I just disagree with him on that," Thompson said. "I saw he was at bill signing ceremonies with (New York Sen.) Chuck Schumer and President Clinton and others for gun control legislation over the years. Of course, he's not as outspoken about it any more."
Thompson, however, is.
"I used to have my own skeet shoot," Thompson boasted as he wandered through the gun shop and bought his children gifts. "Some of my opponents, you know, have a bad record or no records. I have a solid record. ... I'm not embarrassed to remind anybody of it."
A Giuliani spokeswoman said Thompson should be careful with his rhetoric.
"Coming from a man who lives in the Beltway, who is a Washington insider and lobbyist and who played the role Rudy Giuliani actually lived on a television series, I am not sure what to make of the senator's comments, except to say results are results," Katie Levinson said.
"Time and again as U.S. attorney, the third-ranking official in the Reagan Justice Department and as mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani delivered, and no amount of political posturing will change that," she said.
Thompson also said the Democrats would do everything they could to end gun rights.
"They were against gun rights for a long time and they paid for it at the polls," he said. "I don't think Americans think taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens makes for a safer America. Just the opposite."
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Perhaps we should send that video to his spokesman and ask if that was still his stance or if it has been tabled until he’s elected.
Fred is doing exactly what Fred was going to do. One hit at a time until they are all down...
Yep
Is Fred back on the campaign? I guess he woke up from his nap.
Mitt = lib
Guliani = lib
Huckabee = Similar to Carter? Wasn't he a "moderate" Baptist pastor during the Southern Baptist shakeout?
McCain = doesn't like people of the Christian faith; unstable
sigh. Maybe I should send $$ to Thompson and Hunter. What to do, what to do. Is there any voice for the peon in the GOP? Is it now the:
Grand
Oligarch
Party?
Wow! What an insightful post! None of us has heard that particular snarky comment before. For a followup, are you going to discuss the lack of fire in his belly or his wife’s breasts?
exactly...the crime rate would have dropped alot with the increase in policing. Gun control always takes guns out of the hands of the law abiding citizens. The criminals can access them and import them on the black market. Rudy is really messed up on that one.
extreme commonsense...more good citizens with guns, less crime. Simply a fact.
“Is Fred back on the campaign? I guess he woke up from his nap.”
I read some of your posting history, this is actually one of your deeper postings. Your man Rudy counts on people like you.
I’ve noticed he seems to be getting alot more press - good press- the last few days.
“are you going to discuss the lack of fire in his belly or his wifes breasts?”
LOL
We are too respectful on a Fred thread to get distracted, but in the future can you not offer us so many choices?
Don’t miss my comments on it in #30.
I love looking at the posting history of guys like that. It’s typically quite revealing.
Actually that's a damn good answer and a fine idea...
Joe, don’t you know this is the top CONSERVTIVE web site on the net?
Try DNC.COM or hell even crossdressers.com, whatever, I am sure they have forums where you can discuss Julie Anne on...
Or at least the latest fashions for spring..
“seems disinterested in running”
PRECISELY the sort of person we need in the presidency. George Washington was such a man. Pressed into office in the first place, he was more interested in seeking a career in Farming after the revolutionary war than he was in a political career. George Washington Stepped down after two terms even though they wished to elect him perpetually.
That is the kind of person we need in the presidency.
ping!
Wow! Coming from the spokesperson for the man whose...
Lobbyist firm is one of the largest in the Nation, and whose
Law firm has paved the way for the loss of millions of American jobs and a
loss of American sovereignty and a
loss of American Security, with his Law firm enabling the SPP, NAU, and the NAFTA superhighway...
...that’s a heck of a statement to make!
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