Posted on 04/11/2007 11:11:59 PM PDT by FairOpinion
On Abortion: "Government should stay out of it... The ultimate decision must be made by the women... Government should treat its citizens as adults capable of making moral decisions on their own." -- Fred Thompson, July 1994
Are the Social Cons ignorant of Thompson's background?
Back in the early to mid-1990s, there was a raging battle in the Republican Party between the Moderates/Libertarians versus the Religious Right. On one side there was Ann Stone's Republicans For Choice, the Ripon Society, Log Cabin Clubs and the organization that I had founded in 1990 - the Republican Liberty Caucus. On the other side was the Religious Right.
Tennessee was right smack dab in the middle of it all.
The leader of the TN Anti-Religious Right forces at the time was Michael McCloskey.
During the same time, Fred Thompson was making noises of running for the US Senate. McCloskey was one of the ones who was influential in recruiting him to run. McCloskey saw him as a Celebrity counter-force to the Religious Right/Pro-Lifers that could win the GOP Nomination.
And the Religious Right, predictably came after Thompson. It was a bitterly fought primary. Thompson's opponent was Religious Rightist John Bakkes. In the end, Thompson's celebrity status carried him through, and he won with 62% to Bakkes's 37%. Many credited McCloskey and his "Young Republican brigades" with helping Thompson's win.
(Excerpt) Read more at libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com ...
“when your choice is between a RINO and a Democrat”
A rino IS a democrat...
Thompson and Giuliani have the same position on homosexuals: both are against homosexual marriage, but tolerant of domestic partnerships. Read the FT interview on FoxNews.
This historical and factual article points out FT’s position on abortion. His voting record doesn’t negate it — he was always for early term abortion and against late term abortion.
Write back when you've actually given the subject some thought.
“Thompson and Giuliani have the same position on homosexuals:”
No, Rudy IS a homosexual.... He lived with them and he wears women’s underwear.
” Write back when you’ve actually given the subject some thought.”
OK, sounds like YOU might be one too...
RINOs vote for Alan Keyes in Presidential primaries?
RINOs help Newt Gingrich get elected?
Like I suggested, give it some thought.
You have my sincere apologies. I've been responding to you as though you are a person to be taken seriously.
“this guy seems like a bit of a milquetoast.”
He sure it — He rolled over for John Glenn during the hearings on illegal Chinese contributions to the Clintons, even though Thompson was the chairman of the committee.
“. I’ve been responding to you as though you are a person to be taken seriou”
What, are you from New York or San Fran?
What incredible wit. I bet you’ve got ‘em rolling in the aisles down at the Lodge Of The Mystic Order Of Nincompoops.
Your fear of Fred Thompson’s entry into the race is absolutely hilarious. I must admit, I never expected this from you.
Check Fred’s voting record. He voted pro life on every life issue.
Fred Thompson is pro-life. He has ALWAYS VOTED pro-life.
Here are the real FACTS. Here are the FACTS that MATTER:
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Fred Thompson’s Vote/Match questionaire responses:
STRONGLY OPPOSES topic 1: “Abortion is a woman’s right”
http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson_SenateMatch.htm
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Fred Thompson’s Senate VOTING RECORD on Life issues:
Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm#Abortion
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Pro-choice National Right to Life Cmte. on Fred Thompson:
“This morning, I cited reports being promoted by the pro-Romney blog Evangelicals for Mitt suggesting that Fred Thompson ran his two campaigns for Senate in Tennessee as a pro-choicer. Not so, National Right to Life executive co-director Darla St. Martin just told me.
St. Martin said that she went down to Tennessee in 1994 to speak with Thompson personally when he first ran for Senate, and that she determined he was against abortion.
‘I interviewed him and on all of the questions I asked him, he opposed abortion,’ St. Martin said. She told me that the group went on to support him in that election, and his record reinforced for her that their determination was correct.
‘He has a consistent voting record that is pro-life,’ she said.
On the NRLC website, they archive their congressional ratings back to 1997, so they include six of his eight years in the Senate. Thompson took the pro-life position on every vote he cast on the abortion issue...”
http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=6017
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Pro-Abortion group NARAL graded Fred with an “F”:
“NARAL also rated nine other Republicans... Based on their abortion rights stance, the following Republicans received a grade of ‘F’: ...Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee...”
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Try=No&Page=\Politics\archive\200007\POL20000714a.html
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National Right To Life Considered Fred to be PRO-LIFE:
“With 54% of the vote, pro-life former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander (R) won the seat of retiring PRO-LIFE Senator Fred Thompson.”
http://www.nrlc.org/news/2002/NRL11/senate.html
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Pro-Abortion group Planned Parenthood found nothing to like about Fred Thompson, his postition on Life issues and his PRO-LIFE voting record:
“Listed below is the name, state and party of each of these senators along with Planned Parenthood’s rating of them.
Name State Party PP rating...
Fred Thompson TN R 0% “
http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0111.htm
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Don’t be misled by Rudy McRomney and Ron Paul supporters and their near panic response to an impending Fred Thompson entry into the presidential race. The Rudy McRomney and Ron Paul backers’ campaigns of misinformation and distortion can’t change Senate voting records or interest group ratings from the past. These campaigns cannot change the fact that Mr. Guiliani supports taxpayer-funded aborion on demand. When you decide who to support for the GOP presidential nomination, remember who keeps pounding away at what Fred Thompson may have said or didn’t say a dozen yeasrs in the past. Remember who doesn’t want to dicuss Mr. Guiliani’s position and record on abortion, guns, immigration and the gay agenda today and every day.
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Fred Thompson is the real deal.
I wish all Pro-Choice Republicans had the pro-life voting record of Fred Thompson.
And to hell with the Republicans like Rudy who would be the keynote speaker at abortion banquets.
You might, but many will just stay home. Frankly, I haven't decided what I'd do in a Giuliani vs. RAT election, and I've never missed a vote in my life.
“There IS a presidential candidate true Conservatives can support. Moreover, I mean support while smiling proudly rather than holding their noses. Who is the candidate that you, yes you, Mr. or Ms. Conservative can gleefully vote for in November 2008?
Well, it is certainly not John McCain, with his increasingly Liberal voting record on social issues. And no, it is not Mr. Infidelity Rudy Guliani either. I mean let us face it, Rudy, is about as Conservative as your average Democrat is. And no kids, it is not even Mitt ‘Look at my Hair’ Romney.
No my friends, the man who you should start supporting now, as in today, is a man of character, a man of true Conservative values.
He IS pro-life! He IS anti gun control! He WILL be strong in the war on terror. He WILL be pro tax-cuts and WILL fight big spending.
He WILL get tougher on the border, and by golly when asked a question he will answer it, as a leader should!
Therefore, by now, you are surely jumping up and down, eager for me to reveal the identity of the man who should be our next president. That man, my fellow Conservatives, is Tennessee’s Fred Thompson!”
- Doug Hagin, American Daily, March 20, 2007
http://www.americandaily.com/article/18057
Chunga wrote: “Giuliani is wrong on many issues, but he’s right on at least four...”
By way of contrast Fred was right on all of the issues except for only three - tort reform, affirmative action, . Hmmm. Whom to support? The candidate who was wrong on most issues but right on only four? Or the candidate who was right on most issues and wrong on only three?
Thank you for the information.
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