The 'harpy' in question.
Posted on 12/30/2007 10:31:17 AM PST by Sir Gawain
Yes.... preaching to the converted so far.
I started out supporting Duncan Hunter and still think he would make a good president, but realistically I don't think he has a chance. Fred has.
Thompson/Hunter 2008.
The problem is the MSM didn’t account people would be smart enough to find the truth on their own. Sadly there are those that ARE “lazy” in that they don’t seek out the truth, but rather injest all the crap the MSM wants them to believe. In that regard the MSM is counting on people to be lazy, so they still influence the uninformed.
He is running because he has pretty dyed hair!
LOL
On any given day, the names change. But their objectives remain the same. That is to manipulate people conditioned to 15 second sound bites with a 15 second commentary about how bad or how good the candidate looks.
The MSM reporters want to select our choices, rather than let us make the choice based on intelligent analysis.
That is what he said. The reporter was correct.
If this was a one-time slip, it could be overlooked, but he has been a long pattern of expressing this over and over again in his actions and words.
I listened to the press conference on the radio. He was speaking at around 50 words a second ('uhhh's don't count) and giving bad answers all around.
He compounded it today with what he said on Fox News in what sounded like a concession speech (he wants to spend more time with his grand kids).
Snotty lookin ain’t she.
And .. I do hope most people realize who Fred was talking about: HILLARY!
It’s well known that she’s been calculating and planning how to get to the presidency for quite a few years. When a person like Hillary wants to have something .. THEY ARE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING OR SAY ANYTHING JUST TO GET ELECTED.
Fred is telling us .. that’s not him and it never will be who he is or what he stands for.
Evidently, the journalist was trying to blunt Fred’s message by trying to turn his statements against him. She did not succeed.
My guess .. the journalist is a Hillary supporter.
Just simple common sense. These days running for President is running a gauntlet of character assassination, Drive-By Media misinformation, unpleasant debate moderators, and general moonbats, along with the basic travel and logistic hassles.
Only a confirmed masochist would enjoy running for President.
Way back at the beginning, before anyone said anything about him, I was wishing Fred Thompson would get in the race. He doesn't seem to me to be someone who has been lusting for power since his earliest years. That's a principal fault of Clinton, Kerry, and Gore. The Presidency defines their being. It was all about them.
I want someone who takes on the mantle reluctantly but who also will be able to make clear for people what the United States was supposed to be about: a land of liberty where the federal government protects the people from foreign enemies and the Constitution protects the people from the federal government, leaving everything else up to the ingenuity, hard work, and voluntary associations of the citizenry.
We have now reached a place where a major party claims there really is no foreign enemy that is not of our own making and that the federal government has to protect the individual from himself. They appear to believe that people will truly be free when the federal government has defined in law the specifics of how every aspect of everyone's life should be and has constructed an enforcement apparatus to make it happen.
The thought that there could be hundreds of millions living whose future rests completely upon their own shoulders and how they choose to provide for themselves and their families either scares or outrages them, depending on whether they believe those people to be either misguided or arrogant. Therefore, they believe that the federal government, with themselves in the driver's seat, should help plan for the fools who can't do it themselves or put in their places the reckless ones who think they can.
They also appear to believe that anyone who opposes them, therefore, are the enemies of the people, and, because they have cast themselves as the voice of the people, enemies of themselves. You're either with them or you're an evil to be extirpated.
How in the world is this any different from the totalist politics of the Nazis or communists?
When I was in high school I read Jefferson's suggestion that a bloody rebellion every so often would be a good thing for the nation. My idea then was that he was saying, "Hey, if this whole Constitutional government idea we came up with doesn't work out, just toss it aside and try something else." I realize now, and I wish that more people did, that he meant, "If a system of government grows up that violates this Constitution and Declaration of Independence and starts to eat up the people's substance and to oppress the people, get rid of it, even if you have to use bloody force the same way we did against King George. You'll be doing it for the same reason. The federal government is not the United States. It's a means to an end and that end is liberty in peace. If the existing one can no longer serve as that means, scrap it and reconstitutionalize."
I'm hoping that Fred will be able to restore a little clarity to the historical perspective. For all those people in the past who yearned to be free, there are even more now, especially since the degree of oppression in the modern world far exceeds anything during the centuries that led to the American Revolution.
http://www.usatoday.com/community/profile.htm?UID=295801923a01d0e4
Looks like she's getting a pasting under 'My Messages'
Glad to see Fred fighting back. Fire, indeed!
I don’t see her profile at this link.
The voters of IA and NH have figured this out. 1-2% in IA, 3% in NH, and out.
Good response, Mr. Thompson.
If she were a plumber, there would be raw sewage on the bath room floor
We know you are not a Fred head, but if you are going to pretend to quote Fred, don't lie like a demonRAT.
I watched the entire Fred on FOX and "nothing about spending time with his grand kids" could be further from any thing Fred said or implied.
If you want another candidate, that's one thing, but the msm doesn't need your help in lying and distorting things that Fred says {or doesn't say}.
Since you can't deal in truth, STFU.
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