Posted on 12/27/2007 11:35:07 AM PST by SJackson
Reacting to the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson told WND, "This is a war, a clash of civilizations." Thompson, commenting at the FAIR talk radio row in Des Moines, Iowa, said he suspected al-Qaida was responsible for the attack.
"The chance that a secular woman had a possibility of ascending to power in Pakistan drove the more radical Islamic elements in the country to violence," Thompson said.
The former Tennessee senator said the Bhutto assassination was "part of a much larger picture."
"This is an international war we are engaged in," he emphasized. "Bhutto's assassination is not a law enforcement matter. This is a global conflict, and al-Qaida wants to bring Western civilization to its knees."
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Exactly! And I would add that someday, and the sooner the better, we have to come to grips with the fact that we can't continue to fight people that lived in thatched or mud huts on their terms. This role of using our valuable assets in the military as policemen must end. NOW!
“I have come to the conclusion that McCain would be the best choice if Republicans want to win in Iraq”How about keeping it in context?
McCain’s a panderer. Fred Thompson is a straight talker. What’s so hard about this?
And how about opening your eyes? We’re already winning in Iraq!Yeah, right now, because we have a president who has been willing to put it all on the line to stick it out in Iraq against intense Democrat opposition. The Democrats are still going to want to pull the plug prematurely and reverse all of our gains in January 2009. We need a president who is willing to stand as firm as President Bush has and not fold to Democrat pressure tactics. I don't think Fred would and I know John McCain wouldn't. I'm not so sure about the rest, particularly Romney and Huckster.
Thanks for the kind words, daylilly!
steady Freddy...
Fred was so good this morning on FoxNews Channel. Just happened to see it as I was leaving.
Just caught him on the rerun of H&C. Believe it or not, Colmes asked better questions than the Hannity sub!
Your assessment is backwards. Fred Thompson gets an A in standing up for principle. McCain gets a C, based on his history of pandering to the media and to the democrats.
McCain would be a disaster.
Have you ever seen the wheels come off a pickup? It doesn’t happen. Fred Thompson is rolling on, and the media can’t stop him.
So everyone has suddenly forgotten about McCain’s amnesty for illegal immigrants? And a boost for McCain is coincidentally right in line with what the media want, given that they are terrified of Fred Thompson and know McCain couldn’t beat a democrat in the general election?
There’s something very smelly about that poll.
You’re forgetting something. That’s not a measure of votes.
OK, that does it for me. Fred is my man.
It’s not a poll, it’s a futures market. Collectively, political watchers have written off Fred. Regarding McCain, no one has forgotten McCain-Kennedy. However, he has said he learned from its failure and now favors an enforcement first approach. People are waking up to the fact that none of the candidates’ records are any better than his, and he brings three very important qualities to the table: he will ensure total victory in Iraq, he will take on pork spending by Democrats and Republicans alike - the issue that killed the GOP in 2006 - and perhaps of most immediate importance, he would be the best insurance against another Clinton presidency.
We all can agree that Fred Thompson, once in office, would make the best president, the only problem is he has to get elected first, and as it turns out, he makes a pretty lousy candidate.
It’s total nonsense to say McCain couldn’t beat a Democrat in the general election. He has long been the most popular politician in either party, has the highest positives and lowest negatives of any candidate, and is the only Republican to consistently beat all of the Democrats in a head to head match-up.
WWIV began when Carter allowed the Islamofascists to take over our Embassy and did nothing.
Since then our oountry and allies have been attacked by the suicidal Islamofascists with basically no response until 9/11.
The makings of a true conservative are in the campaign he runs. Thompson is running a conservative campaign and has been from the start. He didn’t jump out of the box when the media said GO!. He don’t make outlandish claims at elaborate fund raising events. Fred don’t try to surround himself with Hollywood star power and glitter.
The MSM is responsible for prodding candidates to start a historically way too early campaign. Then the MSM says that a candidate without glitter is dull and has no substance. The MSM wants a candidate to be Rock Star material so they can flock around and tape every expression and every sneeze. Then they can edit the days tapes for a 30 second soundbite with their own ad libbed commentary about how popular the candidate is or what poll says what today.
Fred is a true conservative and the MSM is not only disinterested in a non rock star, they are afraid because Fred speaks responsibly about the issues. A political campaign, to the MSM is more about appearances than it is about policy. The Breck boy image, or the miss Clairol look is more appealing to the eye than Fred. That is obvious because of how many times we see Hillary or Obama or Edwards or Romney, be little acknowledgemet of the other candidates because they are not eye candy.
Perception by the MSM about the candidates is planted, subliminal voting instructions for the 30 second sound bite set, but not the thinking population.
Fred is a thinker. Thinkers are boring according to the MSM. But a thinker is our best bet for President.
“It’s not a poll, it’s a futures market.”
More important, it’s not a vote count.
To expect McCain to get even half the conservative vote is
expecting a lot.
I will draw my last breath before I let the “political watchers” tell me how to think.
Well a couple things we know: Fred Thompson isn’t going to be president because he doesn’t want to campaign for the office, and McCain would be better than either Giuliani or Muckabee. So that just leaves Romney, the guy with the highest negatives on the GOP side, almost rivaling that of Hillary Clinton. Romney is a huge gamble, and there’s no point in nominating the guy who will sit the race out and let Hillary run unopposed. Fred wanted to run as “the last man standing” in the race, but he never bothered to stand up, so that pretty much leaves McCain as the last man standing.
Exaggeration is one way to distort the truth.
Fred Thompson says he doesn’t like to campaign, not that he won’t campaign. The fact that he is hard at work campaigning tells us that he is putting personal comfort aside in order to serve others. A reluctant politician is a politician with integrity.
Thompson’s detractors are in a difficult position. They want to go negative but they can’t say too much because they know that if Thompson gets too much attention, people will notice that he has no significant negatives.
Fred Thompson is the one candidate who is campaigning the way he wants, not the way the MSM wants. He will be the one candidate who does much better than expected.
You know, that really just doesn’t cut it in the real world, sorry. I really like Thompson’s positions, it’s too bad, but he’s finished. In the real world, a candidate has to campaign if they are going to win. Putting on these airs of “reluctance” and “integrity” just doesn’t win elections, not in this era, and we need a candidate who we can trust will do his best to win. Thompson is haunted by the ghost of Bob Dole’s campaign, and that’s why he’s imploded. And this time he won’t be coming back from behind. He’s in the high stakes national race for the GOP presidential nomination now, not back in Tennessee running against a Democrat. A ham sandwich could beat a Democrat for the Senate in Tennessee if it had an R by its name.
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