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Backers, undecideds tune in to Thompson
The Augusta Chronicle ^ | January 15, 2008 | Julia Sellers

Posted on 01/15/2008 12:22:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

AIKEN --- Undecided voters stood on chairs and bumped elbows just to hear Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Monday.

Although his visit to Aiken County was delayed by a couple of hours, about 200 residents came to his campaign stop at Papa Russ's Barbecue to see whether the Law & Order star and former senator would get past his television persona and hit on real issues.

"I think we may have decided on a candidate, but we wanted to experience him personally," Mark Thompson, of Aiken, said of his family's wait.

Mr. Thompson acknowledged that he needs a win in South Carolina's Republican presidential primary Saturday but was unapologetic about his campaign, telling voters that if he's too laid back for their tastes there are plenty of other candidates to choose from.

U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett, R-S.C., introduced Mr. Thompson in the dining room while loudspeakers in The Alley outside allowed latecomers to hear the message.

After touting national security and Supreme Court appointments as the two most important issues facing the next president, Mr. Thompson took questions from the audience before slowly winding his way to his tour bus.

"I believe our country's better days are ahead of us if we do what we ought to do," he said.

While some voters were looking for answers, diehard supporters drove to Aiken in an effort to sway the undecided.

"I'm not from South Carolina, but I'll be contacting people in South Carolina because the alternative is unacceptable and I'll have to pay for it," said Dianne Thomas, of Charlotte, N.C. "He has more depth that's not always shown in a sound bite."

Mr. Thompson's foreign policy experience and knowledge of the economy are issues that Ms. Thomas said get lost, but she said that if voters see him they'll know he's a politician who's still about the people.

"He doesn't talk in sayings like 'change,' " she said.

Mr. Thompson wouldn't say whether a first-place finish in Saturday's primary was necessary for him to continue his quest for the Republican nomination.

He will continue his tour bus campaign in South Carolina through Friday, concluding in Columbia.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: economy; election; electionpresident; elections; fred; fredthompson; gop; issues; primaries; republicans; sc2008; thompson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“After touting national security and Supreme Court appointments as the two most important issues facing the next president, “

Somebody gets it.


41 posted on 01/15/2008 6:50:13 AM PST by Poser (Willing to fight for oil)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath; All
"According to the Rasmussen survey, 'Over the past several days, the only real movement in South Carolina's Republican Presidential Primary has been a four-point gain for Fred Thompson and a five-point decline for Mike Huckabee.' "

From UC Daily, Cumberland TN

Ah HA! So that's your problem! Thompson is tied with Huckabee in NC after a massive surge in the polls!

42 posted on 01/15/2008 6:50:54 AM PST by cake_crumb (Being a preacher DOES NOT exempt you from being a liar and a crook)
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To: Texas Mulerider; HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
Your droning posts have become as predictable and monotonous as a metronome.

There's a difference - At least a metronome serves a useful purpose.

43 posted on 01/15/2008 6:52:32 AM PST by Bob
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

Federalism will conquer abortion. Nothing at the federal level will do so in the forseeable future.

Step 1 is to get constructionist judges on the USSC bench, and overturn RvW.
Step 2, fight state to state to get obortion restricted or outlawed.
Step 3, when you have 3/4 of the states on board, THEN you go for a Constitutional Right to Life Amendment.

At step 2, you start saving lives.
If you go for step 3 right off, you’re tilting at windmills.


44 posted on 01/15/2008 6:56:38 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Coldwater Creek

The news article posted by the chronic-Fred-basher was from the mid-90’s.

Fred is strongly pro-life. No if, ands, or buts, about it.


45 posted on 01/15/2008 7:00:47 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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To: hocndoc

It’s 10:00, here comes the Little Fred Wagon. $10 is all he asks.


46 posted on 01/15/2008 7:04:59 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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47 posted on 01/15/2008 7:05:34 AM PST by Politicalmom (I'm the aunt of a brand-new Naval Officer. I'm proud of you, Kristi.)
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To: Politicalmom; Petronski

Fred is up in 5 minutes on FOX


48 posted on 01/15/2008 7:07:09 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

Give us a link to your source, or at least the publication and author.

Or, do you only have the some other candidate’s talking points for reference?

Shame on you, for the Lord’s sake. I’ll pray that your spirit be sweetened.


49 posted on 01/15/2008 7:07:21 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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To: hocndoc
He may say that he is now, but for Fred to say that he has always been 100% pro life just isn’t so. Yes he has always voted the right way, I will give him that.
50 posted on 01/15/2008 7:08:16 AM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: Coldwater Creek
"He may say that he is now, but for Fred to say that he has always been 100% pro life just isn’t so. Yes he has always voted the right way, I will give him that."

What a man DOES is far more important than what he says. I'm amazed you'd try to split that particular hair about a man with a 100% pro-life voting record.

51 posted on 01/15/2008 7:11:30 AM PST by cake_crumb (Being a preacher DOES NOT exempt you from being a liar and a crook)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath; All

Ah, more same ole same ole from IamAMoronListenMeBabble...


52 posted on 01/15/2008 7:16:04 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Mike Huckabee, Tithing via Taxation, the Christian Democrat way...)
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To: Politicalmom
Fred Thompson on your tv today

WHAT: Fred Thompson Participates in Live Television Interview with Megyn Kelly on FOX News Channel’s America’s Newsroom
WHEN: 10:10 am ET
WHERE: FOX News Channel.

WHAT: Fred Thompson Participates in Live Radio Interview on The Glenn Beck Program
WHEN: 11:05 am ET
WHERE: Syndicated Nationally
NOTE: Listen live.

WHAT: Fred Thompson Participates in Live Radio Interview with Keven Cohen on The Afternoon Drive
WHEN: 3:05 pm ET
WHERE: WVOC, Columbia, SC
NOTE: Listen live.

WHAT: Fred Thompson Participates in Live Interview with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes on FOX News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes
WHEN: 10:00 pm ET
WHERE: FOX News Channel.
NOTE: Senator Thompson will appear between 10:00-10:30 pm ET.

This is a smart move by Fred and his team. He's obviously not even playing in Michigan, but these appearances will keep him from being forgotten about today!




53 posted on 01/15/2008 7:16:15 AM PST by jellybean (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=dailyfread Proud Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: Coldwater Creek
If Dr. Wanda Franz of National Right to Life is ok with Fred, I think the state can rest easy...
54 posted on 01/15/2008 7:18:03 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Mike Huckabee, Tithing via Taxation, the Christian Democrat way...)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath
The Tennessee Republican, a pro-choice defender in a party with an anti-abortion tilt, is preparing for next week’s convention in San Diego.

So if you support overturning Roe v. Wade, but don't support a consitutional amendment, then you are a "pro-choice defender"?

Thanks for showing us another example of the misrepresentation of Fred in the media.

55 posted on 01/15/2008 7:18:21 AM PST by GunRunner (Thompson 2008 - Security, Unity, Prosperity)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Mr. Thompson wouldn’t say whether a first-place finish in Saturday’s primary was necessary for him to continue his quest for the Republican nomination.”

It’s wise for him to demur from the expectations games.

However, if he takes 2nd, he gets to continue to play, and is in good shape for Feb 5 and Feb 12. For those dates, he will have to use his resources wisely, to maximize his results where he has a fighting chance, even if it means giving up entirely where he’s particularly weak.

Even if he’s a relatively close 3rd, he gets to go on and still has a realistic chance at the nomination, especially if no front runner emerges.

Remember, a majority of the delegates will be chosen by Feb 12. If no one has something closing in on 35% or 40%, there is a substantial chance that there will be something akin to a brokered convention (although I don’t know that it will look like the brokered conventions of the storied past). In the case of the party coming together to find an acceptable candidate, there will be two critieria: 1) someone who did respectably in the primaries and caucuses, and 2) someone who is broadly acceptable to most or all of the conservative factions of the party.

If Mr. Thompson does moderately-well in the next few weeks, and no real front-runner emerges, he might be the man.


56 posted on 01/15/2008 7:20:09 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: SE Mom
And he was great! He just said McCain and Huckabee. Hemmer just asked him about being a “stalking horse” for McCain. Fred said that that was just Huckabee’s talking points. To think that he had been doing everything that he had been doing, day and night, for someone else’s campaign is LUDICROUS!!!
Go Fred!
57 posted on 01/15/2008 7:21:07 AM PST by georgiagirl_pam
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To: John Valentine
When are you going to stop lobbing creampuffs come up with a REAL objection to Fred Thompson. You know, something that might actually have some substance - or be able to sway somebody not under the influence of mind-altering substances.

He's using drive by media tactics.

Waltz into a thread and throw around a bunch of quotes out of context and then refuse to back them up with a response. Typical tabloid m.o. from another defender of big government RINOs.

58 posted on 01/15/2008 7:21:47 AM PST by GunRunner (Thompson 2008 - Security, Unity, Prosperity)
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To: cake_crumb; Coldwater Creek

We do split hairs and call them logs, don’t we?

I know good men and women who have been pro-life, except for rape and incest. They just can’t get around this point, without teaching. And yet, I got emails from pro-life activist groups saying, “South Dakota legislature endorses unlimited early abortion by the morning after pill and abortion in cases of rape and incest” when that State passed the strictest ban I’ve ever seen, one that has been tied up in the courts, ever since.

I received e-mails saying that Texas law allows parents to abort their grandchildren when we were able to pass the parental notification and then, despite resistance from some of the pro-life activists because “the law allows mothers and doctors to abort babies,” and “it would allow parents to choose to abort their grandchildren,” we were able to pass the prenatal protection act and parental consent laws.


59 posted on 01/15/2008 7:22:20 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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To: GunRunner; HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

That was plagiarism - theft of the work of an author and a publication - from a 1996 article - note the “San Diego conventio.”.


60 posted on 01/15/2008 7:26:18 AM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org)
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