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>>>>>Fred is hardly a conservative.

The vast majority of FReepers supported Fred's candidacy baserd on his solid conservative record. I'd say that is a strong statement of Fred's conservative credentials. The fact you were in the minority marks you more a malcontent then a conservative.

The vast majority of FReepers supported Fred's candidacy baserd on his solid conservative record. I'd say that is a strong statement of Fred's conservative credentials.The fact you were in the minority marks you more a malcontent then a conservative.

That depends on how you define "vast majority". Your statement lacks any credibility absent any detailed facts to back up you vague claim. There are many facts showing Thompson voted more like a socialist while in office as his voting record below reveals:

In 1997 Fred Thompson voted to revoke China’s Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status (S.Amdt. 890 to S. 955), then turned around in 1999 – after even more Chinese malfeasance was uncovered, some by Mr. Thompson himself – and voted in favor of MFN (S.J.Res. 27). Then, during the 2000 debate to give Bill Clinton his coveted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for the chicoms, Fred teamed with Robert Toricelli to put in a poison pill amendment (S.Amdt 4132 to HR 4444), tying trade to a series of weapons non proliferation standards. Despite the Jesse Helms-like posture and the subsequent failure of his amendment, Fred ended up voting for PNTR, amendment free, handing Clinton a huge victory at the expense of our national security.

He voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997 by giving legal status for those who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children.

He voted against the Simpson Amendment to S.1664 that was in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million. Sen. Thompson supported provisions that allow immigrants to send for their adult relatives. Then each of those relatives can send for their and their spouse’s adult relatives, creating a never-ending and ever-growing chain. The bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission recommended doing away with the adult relative categories (begun only in the 1950s) in order to lessen wage depression among lower-paid American workers.

Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for a measure requiring U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. Sen. Thompson voted against that, joining those who said the requirement would give government too much authority over corporations’ right to hire whomever they please from whatever country.

Thompson supported Roe vs. Wade in the 90’s. Thompson said he supports the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. Source: the Memphis Commercial Appeal on July 29, 1993 page B1.

In an October 21, 1994 article, The Washington Post reported that “both” Thompson and his Democratic opponent in the 1994 Senate race, then-Rep. Jim Cooper, “believe in legal abortion.”

Thompson spoke on the Senate floor on April 23, 2002 in support legislation that stated global warming was due to human intervention. Per Title X:

SEC. 1001. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON GLOBAL WARMING.

(a) FINDINGS. The Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Evidence continues to build that increases in atmospheric concentrations of man-made greenhouse gases are contributing to global climate change.

These are hardly the position of a conservative.

If Fred had slobbered over the Fair Tax, certain people would be singing a different tune.

FairTax ‘brownshirts’ are like that... pay no attention to him.

I recently got an Email from McCain asking for my support ($). I responded by informing him that he had my vote, my support was something he would have to earn. For example, introduce the House Immigration Enforcement Bill in the Senate. Make me believe he really “heard” us!

McCain has not reached me yet, and I don't expect much from him between now and then. He could help himself with “us” if he would adopt more of Fred's understanding of Federalism. Quit being “everyone's man” because it is not possible to please everyone...at this point, he had better be more concerned about pleasing “us” or many will just sit this one out.

That is how we got the first Clinton, and America cannot afford a (d)emocRAT of any race or gender!