Lesson in getting makaka’d
This isn’t an explanation of FDT’s Cuba remarks. These are the original remarks.
Fred better hang on - he’s gonna have a bumpy ride. The She-Beast has him in her sights, and now that the Obama threat seems to be subsiding, she’s gonna hit Fred with everything she can conjure up.
Congressman Billybob
Are these the remarks that hillary distorted to accuse Fred of calling Cuban-Americans “terrorists”?? Fred should rub her lying face in this one and force her to publicly apologize.
He didn’t say anything bad about Cubans, but rather about Castro’s Cuban agents. Not all Cubans are Castro’s agents, right?
Perhaps Hillary misspoke. Perhaps she meant to say that all Cuban immigrants work for Castro, and that’s why what Fred Thompson said was bad.
Hillary is an idiot...but still, a dangerous and highly useful idiot for the powers that be.
If Fred’s starting out by apologizing to liberals, I do believe I’m gonna puke.
STAND YOUR GROUND FRED.
Sheesh. Haven’t we learned anything?
Never. Ever. Apologize to a liberal.
For anything.
Duncan Hunter is my guy, but I’d hate to see Fred have to start tap dancing for Hillary.
Here is what Fred was talking about:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/19/professor.spy/index.html
I think this is what the above is referencing.
Pretty stupid to suggest that Cuban immigrants -- illegal or not -- are coming here to cause us harm. Hell, they're the only latin-american group that vote SOLIDLY republican. (Bush got 84% of the C/A vote in 2000.)
Old Fred apparently wants to jeopardize that support. Brilliant political move.
Fred knows very well the consequences of a popular candidate entering the race against the beast. I have no doubt he is completely prepared for her and will strike back with precise, and devastating, force. Get out the popcorn cuz this is going to one hell of an election cycle!!!!
ping
These remarks don’t need explaining.
The time line of all these events makes it appear that he has strategically hung her out to dry.
That’s not what I said lady. Go read my blog to know what I think/feel about Cubans.
See, it’s simple, it’s direct and, most importantly, it’s the truth.
Fred BUMP!
Hillary has one hell of a nerve, but I digress...
Fred made some excellent points, btw.
Who’s starting the Dead Pool for when FR goes after Fred??
Pray for W and Our Troops
Extreme Mortman hits the bullseye:
“We learn from this AP story that Hillary Clinton on Saturday visited Walt Disney World — not riding the Teacup Ride, but attacking Fred Thompson, who’s not even officially in the race.”
“Either Hillary was Goofy for the day, or there’s no doubt who’s the Republican front-runner.”
http://www.extrememortman.com/
Transcript of Thompson's full related original remarks, excerpted from his speech in South Carolina
THOMPSON: You talk about national security, one of the biggest national security issues that we face is right here at home. We're having a big debate now with the immigration bill. They say it's dividing our party. I think to a certain extent, that's right, and I don't think it will always be that way. I think we have to have our honest disagreements and honest opinions and then move on. Some very good friends of mine is on the other - or, are on the other side from where I am. That's all right; we're adults. Let's air our views and decide what's best for this country.
The bottom line is not what's best for one party or another or who's going to get the most votes when the dust settles. The bottom line is what's best for the strength and the long-term endurance of this country, and this immigration bill is not it.
We're catching, over a period of years, thousands of illegal immigrants coming from southern borders that are non-fence-able. Many of them come from terrorist-related states. We were just talking earlier, and I remember the figure that stuck out to me -- in the year 2005, we apprehended over 1,000 folks that originally has come from Cuba. If they're coming from Cuba, where else are they coming from? And I don't imagine they're coming here to bring greetings from Castro. We're living in the era of the suitcase bomb. We can't be talking seriously about national security while that's going on. We're catching one for every three that we don't catch -- they say. That's our government's estimate, so you can imagine what the real ratio is.
So -- in 1986 we were offered a deal that we'll grant amnesty for a certain amount of people and we'll secure the border. Well now they're coming back and offering the same deal. And basically saying that we want -- we want you to deal with 12 million now, and this time we really mean it -- we'll secure the border. And the American people are saying, "Fool me twice, shame on me." And they say, "No, it's right here in the bill. I mean, we'll secure the border." And they're saying, "I don't care if it's in the bill -- secure the border."
Actually, I was more than a little disappointed in Rush's contribution.
As the debate really started to heat up about four weeks ago, I recall one day when he layed it all out very compellingly: It would mean the death of the Republican party, etc.
But thereafter, most days when I tuned it -- excepting his week of vacation -- Rush seemed a bit annoyed at all the noisy ones. He actually made the point one day that he no longer gets too upset by these things. That would be because he has become another celebrity, big-shot, obsessed with his golf and, no-doubt, maintained in his insular lifestyle by a platoon of drivers, gardeners, housekeepers, etc., probably of dubious immigration status. Rush has lost touch with what got him where he is.
In the end, of course, he was noisy in the celebration.
Fred should pull a Mary Poppins “I never explain anything”