Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 05/12/2007 7:28:43 PM PDT by MUCollegeRepublican1
Fred Thompson has beat out all challengers in the WisPolitics 2007 GOP Convention Straw Poll beating out Wisconsin’s own Tommy Thompson by 11 votes. Maybe they all watched this video. For our commentary on Tommy Thompson’s speech and the entire 2007 WI GOP Convention with photos, click here.
Here are the results:
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McCain's mini-me?
Right, desperate to get a conservative elected President!
Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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May they take the time to find out if he is a conservative, by now.
“but flocking en masse and wholesale to Fred Thompson at this stage speaks of a kind of desparation — or so it seems, to me.”
Educate yourself and you might see things differently
Seems to me the ones flocking to Giuliani are the ones who are desperate.
What do you think I don't know?
Thompson's policies and votes have been quite close to John McCain's.
He's also pro state's choice on abortion (the Stephen A. Douglas approach).
Thompson is far more conservative than McCain.
During the eight years that Thompson and McCain served together, they cast votes on 102 CQ-defined key votes and agreed on 83 of them - or 81.4 percent of the time. They disagreed 18.6% of the time, that’s pretty high considering that both are Republicans and both are considered relatively conservative. Just as an example from one year, among the instances in which Thompson and McCain differed were votes in 2002 to effectively extend a repeal of the estate tax beyond 2010, to authorize oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and to postpone tougher automobile fuel efficiency standards. Thompson voted “aye” and McCain voted “no” in all three cases.
Nice spin, unspun...
“Seems to me the ones flocking to Giuliani are the ones who are desperate”
LMBO!!
Nice spin, unspun...
You go ahead and justify for me allowing some American states to be havens for murdering infants in the womb.
Then do the same regarding being pro state's choice regarding slavery. That worked out really well, too.
Without disagreeing with you that abortion is the largest genocide in human history... By returning abortion decisions to the states, we essentially remove 30+ states from the battlefield with a single stroke. Right now we’re fighting abortion in every state, in almost every township or region in the country. With Roe undone, we can focus our efforts on getting abortion on the ballots in every state that doesn’t immediately outlaw it. AND. If abortion is on the ballot, you can bet that the conservative base will be mobilized and you will see another takeover of the government by conservatives (not republicans). Thus allowing us to push through a constitutional amendment against the killing of life in the womb - citing the 30-40 states which currently outlaw it.
It might take 30 years to end the killing, but i’d rather be on a path that will take 30 years than on a path where we have to convince the entire country AND THEN convince US congressmen to vote it out. No guarantee it’ll stop either way, but learn from the libs and get what we want a little push at a time. /rant
If I recall correctly prior to Roe vs. Wade nearly 2/3 of all states were havens for the unborn, now there are zilch, thanks to the Supreme Court.
How are the College Republicans doing at Marquette in terms of numbers/influence?
That is an achievable goal at this time.
What you seem to want isn’t.
I want a president who has the moral grounding to know that is not all we must strive for, even if it takes much effort and time.
unspun wrote: “May they take the time to find out if he is a conservative, by now.”
I took the time to find out. Fred Thompson IS a conservative:
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Bill Kirkland, a university friend who studied law with Thompson, recalled... “He was a very conservative Republican even then. He was a huge supporter of Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election.”
- Sarah Baxter, Times Online, April 15, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1654837.ece
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In 2000, Thompson got a 92 percent favorable rating from the American Conservative Union and a zero from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action.
- Mike Allen, The Politico, March 12, 2007
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3074.html
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“I like Fred Thompson. He was a capable senator. He is a good communicator. I disagree with him on some things, but in our ratings — I don’t have the exact number in front of me, but I think during his career in the Senate he was in the mid to upper ‘80s, which we consider solidly conservative.”
- CBS interview with ACU Leader David Keene, April 20, 2007
http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/thisweek/070420cbs.htm
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While he was never a leading social conservative voice in the Senate, Thompson’s voting record during his eight years in Washington should be acceptable to anyone to the ideological right. Thompson was rated highly by conservative groups during his time in office, and surely won loyalty from conservatives when he squired Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts around Capitol Hill during his 2005 confirmation process.
- Chris Cillizza, washingtonpost.com’s Politics Blog, March 19, 2007
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/03/the_case_for_fred_thompson.html
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A political analyst and former Democrat insider says actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson is a solid conservative who would be a formidable candidate for president in 2008, should he choose to run.
Political analyst Keith Thompson says his namesake reminds him of Ronald Reagan. “He has a solid conservative voting record on issues of life, on issues of international security and national defense, the terrorism issue, the war,” says the analyst, concluding with the observation: “I don’t know of an issue that he has fallen short of in the broadly defined sort of ‘Reaganesque’ conservative mantle.”
- Chad Groening, AgapePress, March 20, 2007
http://www.gopusa.com/news/2007/march/0320_fred_thompson.shtml
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Thompson may very well be the only true Conservative candidate if he chooses to run for the Presidency. The former Senator is pro-life, anti-gun control, pro-traditional marriage (between a man and woman), against activist judges, does not condone “special” rights for certain groups, such as gay rights, and is a firm believer in State’s rights.
- Liberally Conservative blog, March 11, 2007
http://www.liberallyconservative.com/?p=1744
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Fred Thompson is the very candidate for whom the Conservative Movement has been searching. No other candidate projects the charisma and charm, as well as the name recognition and conservative credentials to which Fred Thompson can lay claim. Like President Reagan in 1980, Fred Thompson is the true conservative leader that can take the Party forward in the 21st Century.
- Dave Hinz, The Hinz Report, March 6, 2007
http://www.hinzsightreport.com/dave/dave-030607-1.html
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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...
That man, my fellow Conservatives, is Tennessee’s Fred Thompson!
- Doug Hagin, The New Media Journal, March 23, 2007
http://therant.us/staff/hagin/03232007.htm
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