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[National Right to Life] The Stephen Douglas of the 2008 race
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 | Jill Stanek

Posted on 11/29/2007 7:39:08 AM PST by Quiet Man Jr.

A week before the National Right to Life Committee endorsed Fred Thompson, I blogged he had disqualified himself from my list of presidential primary picks following his Nov. 4 interview on "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert.

During those moments, Thompson revealed he's in the same death camp as Rudy Giuliani, just with more exceptions.

Between that interview and one on Nov. 18 on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, NRLC endorsed Thompson and clearly tried to tutor him.

But it failed. Thompson unsuccessfully tried to pull one of three coffin nails he'd hammered two weeks prior, while he pounded another harder. I was left more curious than before about NRLC's decision...

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nationalrighttolife; prolife; thompson
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To: Eddie01

We have plenty of people here that want to elect a Don Quixote to the White House so they can continue to complain that those windmills never die. They are unwilling to recognize that winning a war cannot be accomplished without winning the battles.


21 posted on 11/29/2007 8:52:07 AM PST by Uriah_lost ("I don't apologize for the United States of America," -Fred D Thompson)
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To: Quiet Man Jr.

No, Jill doesn’t know what the hell she is talking about, and apparently has never read a single bloody thing about Abraham Lincoln or Steven Douglas.

Lincoln absolutely took a State’s-Rights view on slavery; it’s only a bunch of confederate hicks trying to justify their ancestors’ treachery and abominations that say otherwise. But Lincoln and the Confederate slave-holders both knew that the plantation system would be doomed if decent, Christian Americans ever took a very deep look at the institution of slavery.

Thompson’s answers are nearly Lincoln’s verbatim. And I suspect that’s by design.


22 posted on 11/29/2007 8:54:34 AM PST by dangus
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To: Nephi; All
Nephi, how about the new Ron Paul / Dennis Kucinich ticket hey are talking about. None of you Paul folks are on that thread yet need to check it out, maybe you can defend him from all us "Paul Haters..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1932207/posts

Think it’s interesting your boy would even consider it. I thought he WASN’T like the left...

Swing by while the rest of us discuss sane, conservative candidates.

23 posted on 11/29/2007 9:00:17 AM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: Quiet Man Jr.

Gee, Jill, thanks for wasting my time and eating our own. This is why we lose...


24 posted on 11/29/2007 9:43:47 AM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nilhilism)
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To: Fred

Ding, ding, ding!! We have a winner!


25 posted on 11/29/2007 9:50:08 AM PST by prairiebreeze (Fred '08 Because our troops DESERVE BETTER than Mrs. Bill Clinton.)
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To: SoConPubbie; Spiff

When did Fred say he was for the Human Life Amendment?

I heard Fred say no Meet the Press video in his own words!


26 posted on 11/29/2007 10:05:14 AM PST by restornu (Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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To: restornu
He has never said he was for it.

But he has not said he would not sign it if it came to pass (it won’t right now)

It’s called be consistent and conservative, you wouldn’t understand.

27 posted on 11/29/2007 11:04:14 AM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: ejonesie22

tell that to SoConPubbie

Fred is right, do what is doable, not tilt at windmills.

First overturn Roe vs Wade, then go for the Human Life Amendment.

15 posted on 11/29/2007 11:22:27 AM EST by SoConPubbie


28 posted on 11/29/2007 11:15:33 AM PST by restornu (Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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To: restornu
And what is inaccurate about that. Sound’s like that is SoCon’s statement, not Thompson’s but it may well be what FDT is thinking.

Fred want’s to go after the Wade decision via the SCOTUS.

That’s a big row to hoe right now as it is.

We Conservatives like to win.

29 posted on 11/29/2007 11:31:39 AM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: Nephi

Try looking at his record ...100% pro life.
Or look at all the times he has explained his stance.
Or even try listening to the entire interview that Jill quotes. That in itself will give you a clue.
Never take my word for it. I wouldnt take yours ...just as I would definitely not take Jills.


30 posted on 11/29/2007 3:00:36 PM PST by donnab (saving liberal brains...one moron at a time.)
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To: Reagan Man; EternalVigilance

Time to break out the “Aw Jeez” pic. I’m sure EV is circling this thread and will add his refuted comments.


31 posted on 11/29/2007 3:03:24 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: demshateGod

Have you ever really listened to what he has said? Or do you get your info from people like Jill?
So far he has been one of the only candidates willing to give detailed plans of what he would do with the issues.
I love people that need to be spoon fed. Be careful from what trow you choose to eat from.


32 posted on 11/29/2007 3:04:20 PM PST by donnab (saving liberal brains...one moron at a time.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

So far in this election cycle, you’ve gone from vociferous support for Rudy Giuliani to backing Ron Paul.

Who’s next, Kucinich?

You haven’t refuted anything, by the way.


33 posted on 11/29/2007 3:07:07 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "conservatives" like these, who needs liberals??)
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To: Quiet Man Jr.

Good for Jill. She’s a great American.


34 posted on 11/29/2007 3:09:41 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "conservatives" like these, who needs liberals??)
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To: Quiet Man Jr.
No she didn't "nail it." Stephen Douglas's theory of popular sovereignty dealt with the territories. While he would have also applied this concept to the states, so did every other Republican of the time including Lincoln....who well into the Civil War said that the states could do whatever they wanted on slavery. Who ever came up this Douglas comparison doesn't know their history very well.

Before the 1970s (more than a century after Douglass died), abortion was ALWAYS a matter for the states.

35 posted on 11/29/2007 3:14:13 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: dangus

Exactly....though there was differnence between Douglas and Lincoln. Both thought the states should decide slavery but Douglas, unlike Lincoln, would also let the territories also decide. I agree, however, that the Douglas comparison is bogus since popular sovereignty dealt with territorial govenrment.


36 posted on 11/29/2007 3:16:45 PM PST by Captain Kirk
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To: Quiet Man Jr.

Jill perhaps should have pointed out that Ron Paul has been pushing this Stephen A. Douglas, Jerry Ford, anti-Republican platform, anti-Declaration of Independence, unconstitutional, ‘states’ rights trump unalienable rights’ position for a very long time.

And that now Thompson and Paul aren’t the only one pushing it, thinking it makes them sound conservative. Romney, Giuliani, McCain, and Huckabee have done the same.

If this view is allowed to prevail, it will cut the heart out of the Republican Party.


37 posted on 11/29/2007 3:32:44 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "conservatives" like these, who needs liberals??)
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To: Captain Kirk
I agree, however, that the Douglas comparison is bogus since popular sovereignty dealt with territorial govenrment.

Lincoln disageed heartily with you. That disagreement is what ultimately propelled to the presidency.

38 posted on 11/29/2007 3:40:04 PM PST by EternalVigilance (With "conservatives" like these, who needs liberals??)
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To: Quiet Man Jr.
Fred = pwn3ed.
39 posted on 11/29/2007 3:57:40 PM PST by Spiff (<------ Click here for updated polling results. Go Mitt! www.mittromney.com)
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To: donnab

I’ve seen all that, but any man who lives an amoral, promiscuous lifestyle and is anti-abortion at the same time is a hypocrite. Too bad that you and so many fredpers have come down on the side of hypocrisy.


40 posted on 11/29/2007 4:41:08 PM PST by Nephi ( $100m ante is a symptom of the old media... the Ron Paul Revolution is the new media's choice.)
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