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Fred Thompson quits; MAY POSITION HIMSELF FOR VP BID
The Examiner ^ | Jan 22, 2008 2:49 PM | Bill Sammon

Posted on 01/22/2008 12:08:14 PM PST by enough_idiocy

Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson dropped out of the race Tuesday and, according to a top adviser, can now position himself as a vice presidential candidate.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; fred; fredthompson; sammon
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To: JohnnyZ
Memory jogger:

Who coined the term "Voodoo Economics", and then subsequently became the VP for the same candidate he made the comment about?

21 posted on 01/22/2008 12:16:06 PM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: linn37
the media wanted him out but now they want to write storys about him being a VP choice?

This is an obvious RINO move now, kill the Conservative candidate as the standard bearer, but then get him on the ticket where he will not really influence policy but will possibly throw the base enough of a bone to keep them voting.

As for me, I am planning on voting for Ron Paul Feb 5 as a protest vote in the hopes the lunatic gets high enough numbers to scare the hell out of the establishment

22 posted on 01/22/2008 12:16:09 PM PST by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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Considering John McCain might very well only serve one term, the spot as VP under him might be a bit more appealing and important for the future than normal.

Fred taking a VP spot under McCain might very well put him in frontrunner status for 2012, though McCain couldn’t ever say that publicly.


23 posted on 01/22/2008 12:16:10 PM PST by Crimson Elephant
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To: enough_idiocy

Good man. Good luck to him.


24 posted on 01/22/2008 12:16:26 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Al Qaeda: enemy of civilization and humanity. Ron Paul: al Qaeda's puppet and mouthpiece.)
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To: enough_idiocy

I would have been happy to vote for Fred for President, but I think that he is too old for VP. Sadly, the picture of him with his tiny wife and two such young children just didn’t work in this media age.


25 posted on 01/22/2008 12:16:50 PM PST by Freee-dame
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To: enough_idiocy

I wouldn’t stay up late waiting for this.


26 posted on 01/22/2008 12:17:20 PM PST by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: enough_idiocy

It’s all staged. The RINO nominee will have to get a running mate that’s Conservative or the Conservatives will stay home again. It’s just another way of the GOP appeasement plan.


27 posted on 01/22/2008 12:18:08 PM PST by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: enough_idiocy
While I supported Fred for Potus, I don't think he'd be a good VP choice -- he'd be way to old by Inauguration Day 2017. I don't think he'd be interested anyway.

If anyone in the remaining pool of rinos is smart, he'll pick someone who is NOT a candidate (ie. a true conservative).

28 posted on 01/22/2008 12:18:24 PM PST by rhinohunter (Thompson/Steele '08)
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To: evets
oh the deja vu

29 posted on 01/22/2008 12:19:00 PM PST by ari-freedom (The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government)
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To: rintense

The rumor is that Thompson will endorse McCain. I heard it while running around SC protesting McCain events for four days.


30 posted on 01/22/2008 12:19:20 PM PST by kabar
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To: rintense

Regardless of how some Freepers feel about McCain, Thompson supported McCain’s 2000 run against Bush, so it may not be a far stretch.


31 posted on 01/22/2008 12:19:31 PM PST by guinness4strength
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To: JohnnyZ
McCain flipped on the Bush tax cuts.
Most conservatives believe the biggest domestic success of George Bush's first term were his tax cuts. John McCain voted against them, more than once, before finally flip-flopping and voting for them this year.

McCain flipped on gay marriage.
Voted NO on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)

McCain flipped on ethanol.
McCain was anti-ethanol when he was skipping Iowa in 1999. In 2006 he was pro-ethanol while campaigning in Iowa . Now he's pretty anti-ethanol again that he's decided to bypass Iowa. (THIS ONE IS A TRUE FLIP FLOP . . . Been on both sides of the issue multiple times)

McCain flipped on Roe.
In NH in 1999 McCain told reporters that "in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade." He explained that overturning Roe would force "women in America to [undergo] illegal and dangerous operations." In 2006, campaigning for the GOP nomination as a conservative, McCain said the opposite.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me ask one question about abortion. Then I want to turn to Iraq. You're for a constitutional amendment banning abortion, with some exceptions for life and rape and incest.

MCCAIN: Rape, incest and the life of the mother. Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So is President Bush, yet that hasn't advanced in the six years he's been in office. What are you going to do to advance a constitutional amendment that President Bush hasn't done?

MCCAIN: I don't think a constitutional amendment is probably going to take place, but I do believe that it's very likely or possible that the Supreme Court should — could overturn Roe v. Wade...."

McCain flipped on climate change:
Kyoto By Any Other Name Would Still Smell As Rotten: John McCain proposed a radical bill, the McCain-Lieberman Stewardship Act, that is not all that different from the Kyoto Protocol. McCain's bill would do cataclysmic damage to our economy. In the name of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by an insignificant percentage, that not even the biggest proponents of Kyoto believe would have a significant impact on the weather, here's the damage John McCain would be willing to do to our economy (from an article by Marlo Lewis in National Review).


McCain flipped on stem cells.
Initially supporting the President's restriction as to federal funding, McCain then asked for an expansion to include wider research saying, "I believe that we need to fund this. This is a tough issue for those of us in the pro-life community. I would remind you that these stem cells are either going to be discarded or perpetually frozen. We need to do what we can to relieve human suffering. It's a tough issue. I support federal funding." Source: 2007 GOP primary debate, at Reagan library, hosted by MSNBC May 3, 2007

McCain signed a letter from 58 Senators to the President
" Dear Mr. President:

We write to urge you to expand the current federal policy concerning embryonic stem cell research.

McCain flipped on faith
The Associated Press broke a story about McCain’s statement in Sept 2007 saying that he is in fact a Baptist, despite his past comments that he is an Episcopalian. The news hook is that McCain made these comments while he was in South Carolina, which happens to have a lot of Baptist voters. In a June 2007 interview with McClatchy Newspapers, the senator said his wife and two of their children have been baptized in North Phoenix Baptist Church, but he had not. “I didn’t find it necessary to do so for my spiritual needs,” he said. He told McClatchy he found the Baptist church more fulfilling than the Episcopalian church, but still referred to himself as an Episcopalian. Uh huh.

McCain flipped on guns
Senator McCain supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 100 percent in 2006.
Senator McCain supported the interests of the Gun Owners of America 0 percent in 2005.
Based on lifetime voting records on gun issues and the results of a questionnaire sent to all Congressional candidates in 2004, the National Rifle Association assigned Senator McCain a grade of C+ (with grades ranging from a high of A+ to a low of F).

McCain flipped on the virtues of Evangelical Leadership
McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson as "agents of intolerance" in 2002, but has since "reconciled" and has cozied up quite a bit.

McCain flipped on the Law of Sea Convention
Long-time vocal supporter of the Law, now (just this last month) he's against it.

Also, McCain is wrong on immigration, wrong on giving social security benefits to illegal aliens, wrong on Gitmo and wrong on waterboarding.

More here on the Conservative Case Against John McCain, including an interesting discussion about his age (old).


32 posted on 01/22/2008 12:19:44 PM PST by redgirlinabluestate (MITTens United 4 Mitt - Stop McCain, Huck & Rudy)
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To: Freee-dame
Sadly, the picture of him with his tiny wife and two such young children just didn’t work in this media age.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with you on that one. If they were his daughter and grandchildren, however, it would have been great!

33 posted on 01/22/2008 12:20:49 PM PST by rhinohunter (Thompson/Steele '08)
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To: enough_idiocy

With all due respect for Fred, I believe he is a good and wise man, but I think any nominee would want to pick a more active campaigner for the VP slot.

On the other hand, Cheney may not have been known as a great campaigner in 2000, either.


34 posted on 01/22/2008 12:21:42 PM PST by dinoparty
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To: Def Conservative; edcoil

I’m in too.


35 posted on 01/22/2008 12:21:46 PM PST by truthkeeper (It's the borders, stupid.)
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To: rhinohunter

Not too old for the SCOTUS, though .....


36 posted on 01/22/2008 12:22:06 PM PST by Disturbin (Liberals: buying votes with your money)
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To: JohnnyZ

McCain/Thompson...good team (the Romulan isn’t even good enough to shine their shoes).


37 posted on 01/22/2008 12:22:24 PM PST by meandog (If Mutt is GOP hope I'm gonna say "told you so" when he loses & takes every Republican with him)
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To: Bosco
Memory jogger: Who coined the term "Voodoo Economics",

There's a difference between:

* disagreeing with someone on specific issues, as Fred disagrees with McCain or GHWB disagreed with Reagan

and

* criticizing someone's fundamental lack of personal integrity, as Fred has criticized Romney

38 posted on 01/22/2008 12:23:07 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Make all the promises you have to" -- Mitt Romney)
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To: Freee-dame

yeah that was another problem fred supporters didn’t want to bring up. We may be facing the first woman presidential hopeful and Fred with his much younger second wife would really turn off people.


39 posted on 01/22/2008 12:24:30 PM PST by ari-freedom (The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government)
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To: meandog

McCain has moved way left since Thompson last supported him. I wouldn’t hold my breath.


40 posted on 01/22/2008 12:24:58 PM PST by Ingtar (MOE 2008 - - I hope there are enough pieces to salvage in 2012)
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