Posted on 06/12/2007 11:54:43 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Liz Cheney Joins Thompson Team, THE WEEKLY STANDARD is set to report... Developing..
And worth every penny.
LOL
That said, I actually liked Lindsey, but he is the kind of guy who needs to stay off camera and away from the media, and just talk economics, he is a strong supply side guy.
The most important guy on that staff to me though is David McIntosh. He seals the deal for Thompson being a conservative, you don't go out and manage to pull of one of the founders of the federalist society, and a man who had a lifetime 100 ACU rating by being anything but pure, and alot of candidates were trying to get him.
Having Cheney’s daughter on his team is involvement enough for me.
LOL! I think Liz will be a great addition to the team. I’m concerned a bit that she has only five children, but judging from her picture there’s time for at least five more. :)
Cheney co-sponsored the following bill:
H.CON.RES.405: Supporting prompt deportation from the US of aliens who have engaged in unlawful or disorderly activities in the US. (introduced 8/20/80)
You’d be hard pressed after two terms to find a national level political wonk that can’t be described as ‘a Bush team’ member of some sort. Same could be said after eight years of Clinton for the Dems, btw.
I don’t see it making any real difference.
Yeah, she looks like she’s got good child bearing hips, so it shouldn’t be a problem! :p
I have to agree with you. There have been a few red flags lately.
I wonder if Fred is the real pick, and the strategy is to keep him out of the fray in the early stage.
I remember Rove saying that he thought the campaigning was starting too early this go round.
I sure hope this isn't some strategy.
It could be a reason to get this immigration reform through before Fred announces.
I like Fred, but stuff like this makes me wary. I am not accusing Fred, but I won't be blinded once again by the GOP.
And I’d like to thank everyone for setting me straight on that :)
So then doesn't that constitute immediate deportation of every so-called "undocumented worker" here?
I mean, these folks, they have already engaged in "unlawful or disorderly activities in the U.S." by mere presence here alone, have they not?
He'll just declare himself Vice President for Life. And with all the electronics attached to his heart that could be hundreds of years.
Fred for Boss.
Stephen Root is the best character actor working today.
Here’s the article...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/764cbfmo.asp
Hawks for Thompson
Thompson puts together a foreign policy team.
by Stephen F. Hayes
06/12/2007 3:27:00 PM
FRED THOMPSON IS adding more big-name policy talent as his testing-the-waters committee continues to grow into a real presidential campaign. Among the new additions: Mark Esper, national security adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Joel Shin, a top policy staffer on Bush-Cheney 2000; and Elizabeth Cheney, a former top official in the State Department’s Near East and South Asia department.
Esper, who worked for Thompson when he was a Senator in the 1990s, currently serves as executive vice president of the Aerospace Industries of America and is a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Thompson previously served on the commission. Before joining AIA, Esper was Bill Frist’s director of National Security Affairs. According to a biography on the U.S.-China commission website, Esper’s “portfolio in that position included all defense, foreign policy, and intelligence matters for the United State Senate, where he also worked on trade and homeland security issues.” He worked on executive-legislative national security matters—an important job given the Bush Administration’s posture on a robust executive branch. Esper’s current AIA obligations have limited his participation to that of an informal adviser.
Joel Shin was a top policy staffer on George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000. He coordinated the activities of senior outside policy advisers advising then-Governor Bush and worked on the Bush transition. Although many of his colleagues took jobs in the Bush administration, Shin did not. A former Rhodes Scholar, Shin is currently an associate with The Scowcroft Group in Washington, DC. Shin declined to comment on his role, directing all questions to Thompson’s communications staff.
Liz Cheney, the older of Vice President Dick Cheney’s two daughters, served most recently as principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs and coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives. That title—no doubt one of the longest in the federal government—means that Cheney was on the leading edge of President Bush’s effort to bring democratic and market-based reform to the region. A longtime democracy advocate, Cheney was a strong proponent of women’s rights in the region. Her previous experience includes time at the World Bank, two prior stints at the State Department, and service as a US AID officer in Poland and Hungary.
Esper, Shin, and Cheney are well known and well respected in the Washington foreign policy community and generally regarded as hawkish in their views on national security. They will continue to give Thompson’s foreign policy advice as the effort becomes a formal campaign. The informal group began meeting late last month and current plans are for weekly policy sessions. Like most campaign advisory groups, the foreign policy team will hash out current foreign policy issues and make recommendations to the candidate (or, in this case, the non-candidate). Its members will also seek to anticipate the kinds of foreign policy and national security crises that might answers from Thompson.
Even as he spends much of his time putting together the infrastructure of his campaign, Thompson has been focused on developing the policy proposals that will form the backbone of his presidential run. He spent several hours yesterday at the Hoover Institution, affiliated with Stanford University, meeting with scholars from the conservative think tank.
He is set to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno later this evening.
She does look young. Much better looking than her sister too.
LOL. Boss Hogg looks like a fatter Danny DeVito.
long ago, but a definite “trend” to his thinking, I hope.
Thanks for the search.
I have decided I want a list of things he will NOT support instead of a list of goals.
I guess that makes me negative. I really do not want any big initiatives.
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