Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Quick Reference
Fred Thompson FAQ: THE Fred Thompson Web Resource
Posted on 06/12/2007 8:08:17 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Someone must be afraid of Fred Thompson. Rudy is probably the obvious choice, given today's poll numbers. But I'm sure Romney, McCain, and even the Democrats are afraid of Fred now too. And if you need further proof, behold the apparently coordinated attacking points against him.
Fred is a lobbyist, the Huffington Post proclaims. Not just a lobbyist, George Will tells us, but a lazy lobbyist. And not just a lazy lobbyist, but a foreign agent lazy lobbyist, the Nation would have us believe. And the icing on the cake is Washington Insider cum journalist Jeffrey Birnbaum picking up the attacking points and trying to advance the ball...
To my knowledge, Jeffrey hasn't done a deep lobbying profile of Rudy yet, despite Rudy having been in the race for much longer than Fred...
First we should remember that Fred has been practicing law for 27 years, excluding his time making laws in the Senate, and has only had 6 clients on whose behalf he has lobbied. A couple of those, including the alleged role lobbying for Haiti, were nothing more than a phone call or two on behalf of friends of his, according to a background source of mine who is close to Fred's campaign.
Second, is the asbestos litigation really something to attack Fred on? Virtually every person in Washington dealt with the asbestos litigation in some way...
This again is another example of both why Fred Thompson is running and why he is running such an innovative campaign. The inside the beltway crowd, from the media to the politicians, love to pigeonhole anyone and everyone and presume each candidate is the sum of one of their parts instead of the whole.
They are all in for a rude awakening with Fred's campaign...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
So far, almost everybody.
Apparently everybody.
1988-Rino,1992-Rino,1996-Rino,2000-Rino,2004-Rino.
2008-FRED, the first conservative candidate since Reagan, someone for the neanderthals like me to get excited about.
Fred is running an amazing campaign to date
WooHoo, in before the moms! :)
Among the more ridiculous anti-Fred talking points is that Fred’s lobbying brought on the savings and loan collapse of the ‘80s, indeed that Fred single-handedly CAUSED the savings & loans to collapse via his lobbying.
Go Fred - I really want to see and hear you strut your stuff.
I hope I hear Juan McCain make such a statement.Just to hear all the Keating 5 stuff again.
Ah, Arianna Huffington, the Gabor sister of our times...
Tell me when your eyes are closed you don't hear Lisa Douglas from "Green Acres"!
Its Fred’s fault. That lazy lobbying oil stealing no good thimblerigger! Curses on him!
Its Fred’s fault. That lazy lobbying oil stealing no good thimblerigger! Curses on him!
Put down the remote and back away from the Music Man, Mr. Anvil Salesman. :)
I am a little afraid of him, and I support him. The last thing I want to do is make him mad. He might Nuke my neighborhood.
"I love the smell of Fred Fear in the morning"
DRAFT THOMPSON
And Fred just keeps on puffing.
Hannity......
It’s getting so I can’t listen to Hannity anymore.
His Rudymania is wearing thin.
FEAR THE FRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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