“Fred Thompson voted FOR his campaign finance bill along with McCain and 9 other republicans.”
That vote alone makes him unfit to be president.
“Fred Thompson voted FOR his campaign finance bill along with McCain and 9 other republicans.”That vote alone makes him unfit to be president.
I would agree with you if I thought that Thompson was unrepentant, and even so I think it is a terrible blot. My only problem with throwing Thompson under the bus is that that only leaves a few prominent candidates, and one of them is McCain himself - unrepentant on Feingold; that is just awful. Rudy has some severe problems of his own, and Romney hasn't made the sale either. And Huckabee isn't all that much either.All in the context of the Republican Party; of course in the general election the choice is easy because none of their candidates - no Democrat up to and including Lieberman - actually is better than the worst candidate for the Republican nomination. All - or nearly all - were and are wrong on McCain-Feingold, are wrong on the social issues, are wrong on immigration, are wrong on Iraq,and are wrong on taxes.
It would be nice to one candidate who has a realistic shot and who was right on all of the above - but it looks like Thompson and Romney are the two least worst, and of the two I lean Thompson. Even tho I yield to no one in supporting repeal/overturn of McCain. The fact that Bush didn't veto it still sticks in my craw.