Posted on 12/19/2007 10:29:02 AM PST by rightinthemiddle
SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome to HANNITY AND COLMES. We're glad you're with us. We'll get right to our top story tonight. We're only 16 days away from the Iowa caucuses, and the race remains too close to call for both parties. Joining us tonight from the campaign trail -- he joins us in Waterloo, Iowa, is presidential candidate Fred Thompson.
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COLMES: Senator, it's Alan Colmes, welcome to our show. It's nice to have you with both of us. I want to give you a chance for a hand-show. Are you in the mood for that today or not?
THOMPSON: Alan, I'm not raising my hand until Chief Justice John Roberts swears me in.
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THOMPSON: The biggest complaint I have with Senator Clinton is that she aspires to be the leader of a left wing, big government, high taxing, weak on national security party, that is salivating to get power again so they can take us down the road of a welfare state. And everybody knows the Clintons are tough, and they're going to do tough things along the process. She's not alone in that regard. But we'll see what the tolerance level of the American people really is.
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COLMES: You’re running on small government. One of your other big issues, protection of the border from illegals and illegal immigration. Do you believe that if you become president — you’re following another Republican administration — have they done the right thing about the border? And have they really been proponents of small government, given their policies and the increasing deficit and debt?
Will you follow their lead on those issues?
THOMPSON: No, no. We’ve not done enough in terms of border security. I respectfully disagreed with the president’s bill when he put it forth. Call it what you want to; it was putting some illegal folks here ahead of the line, in front of some people who had played by the rules and waited a long time to become good American citizens. So I didn’t support that. And on the big government side, the president hasn’t done enough to veto these spending bills and these pork barrel projects that we’ve seen.
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Man, is it just me, or are we seeing more news about Fred come out this week than we saw in the whole previous month combined?
Alan Colmes is the biggest tool in the left wing media. He get’s body slammed everytime he tries to corner anyone. How he made it to the air is beyond me.
It comes in waves. There were tons of articles after the last debate.
I think some people are starting to figure out Fred is the best choice.
Rudy: Socially liberal, with baggage
Mitt: Northeast Pubbie, with the “Mormon” thing (unfair)
Huckabee: He’s not a conservative and he will lose the election
McCain: Well, he’s McCain
Fred: Conservative, likable, experienced and he can win
College days.
I support Thompson and was disappointed mostly at his first two months or so of campaigning. But lately he’s on fire. Here’s hoping it lasts!
Good one!
Oh, how interesting.
Yeah, I’m on board with Fred, too.
I started looking at the way the MSM was treating Fred. My guess is they fear him more than Rudy, Mitt, McCain or the Huckster.
Fred seems to have found his niche...he’s also let the other candidates have their own problems while staying out of the fray.
But wait! Fred continues:
But there’s a lot of answers that we don’t have yet, Alan, that we need to get. We need to know whether or not this is a part of a phase or whether or not it’s permanent, as best we can tell.
We’ve had cooling periods in our country — or in our world before. We don’t know the extent to which this is man made. We don’t know the effects of it. The estimates of the results of all of this are all over the map. And I object to those people who say the books are closed, no more questions can be asked, we’ve got to now adopt the solutions that we’re putting forth. We’re not there yet.”
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Fred is not going to fall into the Liberal/MSM trap of labeling him a “Global Warming Denier.” He’s approaching the issue in an open-minded, common-sense way. That’s why he didn’t raise his hand in the debates...like Mitt and McCain.
When I saw Mitt start to raise his hand on THIS issue, I knew I would not vote for him.
Alan Colmes is the only liberal in the media that I like. He seems to be a nice and decent guy, funny, and not angry and nuts.
I just disagree with him, but he seems like good people.
Nothing like a little desperation on your part for Mitt.
A beaver building a dam has an effect on the ecology around it. You think that humankind has NO impact on the ecology?
You don't have to buy into the global warming jihad to recognize the blatantly obvious fact that we effect what's around us. The question is whether or not our effects are going to lead to any real problems, and on that score, there's no credible evidence to suggest that we do.
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