Posted on 01/03/2008 6:53:38 AM PST by Jim Robinson
I think there’s a strong possibility Thompson will grab the headlines tonight. A strong third and he takes the healines from Romney and Huckabee.
Sorry I just don’t believe he is as conservative as he claims he is.....
Thank you, Jim.
But for your site (and the persistence of its members), Fred would not have a fighting chance.
You have (and may yet more) actually change the country — not a lot of people get the opportunity to do that in this world -— especially the most powerful, best, country in the history of the world.
That is the only flaw I can think of in regards to him and his campaign. That doesn’t make him any less qualified, but perhaps a little more difficult to elect.
JMHO2
Yep.
He’s right on just about any issue you care to name...but he simply doesn’t give the appearance he actually wants the job.
Well, I don’t believe you exist.
From a FR Post from several months ago. Still true….
There are three GOP frontrunners. All are wonderful men, two of them are legitimate national heroes. But all have fatal flaws.
Let’s list them.
John McCain is a patriot from a patriot family. His father and grandfather – both of whom rose to the rank of four-star admiral – stood together on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered. John McCain was the third successive generation of his family to graduate from the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
And he capped his fearless service to this country as a longtime prisoner of the brutal North Vietnamese.
John McCain is an American hero.
But he’s also a both-sides-of-the-street Republican who tends to mock conservatives more than he represents them. And, when Teddy Kennedy stood up to offer amnesty to every illegal alien in the country, John McCain was standing right there beside him.
That is the last straw. We’ve already had one Republican president who refused to defend the borders, we will not tolerate another one.
So McCain is out.
Rudy Giuliani is an outstanding man. His work cleaning up New York City, and then responding with inspiring leadership abilities in the wake of September 11, make him an outstanding candidate for president.
Unfortunately, he’d make a better Democratic candidate because his personal philosophies are far more consistent with the values of that party than the Republican Party.
Rudy is a liberal, plain and simple. And that just doesn’t fit with the philosophy and purpose of the Republican Party.
Which brings us to Mitt Romney. Less impressive as a leader, more impressive as an organizer. Mitt Romney’s strength is that he has created a superbly constructed and richly financed campaign. It is a tremendous asset and strength which might propel him into the nomination.
But he wasn’t a war hero, and the most notable aspect of his elective career – other than essentially socializing Massachusetts medicine – was failing to stop gay marriage from coming to his state.
My beef is that Mitt Romney seems to have been a certified liberal until he was 58 years old. Then he seems to have begun a public preparation for the presidency, including a miraculous and convenient conversion to conservatism. He has, over the last two years, reversed himself on almost all the big issues of the day. I just can’t get my mind around how a man of his age could so resoundingly change his world view.
Also, I think sometimes he doesn’t tell the truth. His account of his experience as a firearms supporter – claiming to have been a hunter all his life – seems to have been shown to be a fabrication.
So, Mitt Romney is not the guy for me.
Fred Thompson, however, he walks on water.
No, he’s not perfect. No, he’s not the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
But he is an unusually bright, gifted and experienced leader whose entire public life has been dedicated to being a genuine card-carrying conservative. He doesn’t believe that man causes global warming, he doesn’t believe in open borders, and he doesn’t believe in gun control.
He’s everything Hillary Clinton is not. Heck, he’s everything George W. Bush is not.
The Republican Party is on the verge of becoming pointless. It has so cynically sold out its core beliefs and supporters that it is now nothing more than a cheap copy of the Democratic Party.
George W. Bush has given us record deficits, a massive new welfare program, the attempted federalization of education, unrestricted illegal immigration, the right war fought the wrong way and now he’s a convert to global warming. Republicans gave him the White House and he gave them the shaft.
And they’re hankering for a little bit of the old-time religion, a genuine conservatism that is about something bigger than just winning the next election. In fact, real Republicans – like, presumably, real Democrats – see winning elections as a means, not an end. And while Republicans over most of the last 10 years have been good at winning elections, they have proven woefully inadequate at making those wins count for anything when it comes to advancing conservative policies that will help and strengthen America.
Which is where Fred Thompson comes in.
He is the last chance real Republicans have of getting a candidate on the ballot.
Which is why I hope he runs.
Which is why I hope he wins.
I hope alot of Iowans see things your way, Jim!
I'd give more, but my wife doesn't understand the importance.
I have a good feeling about Fred and his chances.
GO FRED GO!!!
I feel it's crucial that we have either Hunter or Thompson in that chair behind the "big desk". I sure hope the undecideds surprise the heck out of us!
And the others in this race? Either Attorneys, politicians or both as well, I believe. So where does a person find a REAL Sprite conservative?
FRED PING!
Indeed. Fred is the only one of the top candidates I can vote for. (I wish Hunter and Tancredo had done better)
ML/NJ
God bless you, Jim, for all you do and God bless all the freepers.
At least he's a d*mn sight better than Rudy McRomabee! (I, myself, would rather have Hunter but we go to vote with what we have)
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