Fred Thompson Backs McCain

Washington Post ^ | 2/8/08 | Michael D. Shear

[NoGrayZone]

Fred Thompson, the one-time Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. John McCain Friday, calling on the party to "close ranks" behind the presumed nominee

[Doofer]

I don't know why anyone should be surprised about this. What was Thompson supposed to do? McCain is the nominee, of course Thompson endorses him.

I'm a bit surprised he did it this early but hey it's a done deal with McCain being the nominee and this is all about presenting a united front against whoever is going to be the Dem nominee.

Additionally I would expect Romney, Hunter and the others, will eventually endorse McCain down the road.

[CitizenUSA]

svcw: “And of course I am going to snip and bitch about this for awhile at least because I am disgusted at the choice.”

McCain’s win is disappointing. Fred’s endorsement for McCain at this point isn’t disappointing at all. It’s encouraging. I’m not content to surrender to the libs this November.

[STARWISE]

Darn!

But when you think about it, he
really would have stood out
very prominently and like sour
grapes if he didn’t, I guess,
because he was a close colleague
with him .. before.

I truly believe many of his beliefs
changed after he left the Senate,
after 9/11, and after he became a
father again.

Reading his statement: he acknowledges
different preferences and positions,
which he’s putting aside, not abandoning.

It’s certainly not a blanket, gushy
endorsement at all ..but kinda along the
lines of Romney’s: for a good greater than
their own interests.

Oh Fred ... what might have been. I’m still
not closing the door on our candidate.
Too much time.

[NoGrayZone]

Lol!!!! Come on, dont let little willie (no pun intended) give cigars a bad name!

[EternalVigilance]

Well, I just can’t resist the urge to occasionally reintroduce reality.

Although, in this case, you would think certain folks would wake up at least a bit after having been smacked by a two by four.

[keepitreal]

Check out these photos folks:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967477/posts

This is what is happening with the dems. Obama is generating a great deal of cult-like enthusiasm. Obama is the greatest appeaser of the Arab world we could get.

I’m not willing to cry and whine over what could have been with the result being Obama who will be making friends with the Arab world and selling us down the river.

Fred lost. I’m sorry to say that as I tallied up my donation checks today, but it is reality. I’m not willing to just throw in the towel to jihadists for the sake of pie in the sky. My children are not going to live in a USA populated with suicide bombers trying to impose sharia law. Our ancestors gave their lives for this country and we are going to give it away because the conservative cause didn’t prevail this election?

[GVnana]

WOT and SCOTUS. ‘nough said...

Yep. We have six supreme court justices over the age of 68.

[Laptop_Ron]

Okay, but it still puts nasty thoughts in my head! LOL

[NormsRevenge]

I liked Durban myself.. on the indian ocean, a nice coastline, lots of beaches

[ichabod1]

AAH, I think Fred got in because a large number of people were urging him to. I think he was legit. The numbers looked right, and he went for it. Would he go for VP? I don’t know. It really would change the dynamic for me because I think McCain is likely to die in office, of natural causes of course.

[NoGrayZone]

Damn, Rush is good. All these Rush bashers certainly have a lot of crow to eat!

[Finny]

“Fred wants to be his VP.”

I doubt that Fred wants to be his VP, but John would be very wise to ask him. That would give him his best chance to try to unite the Republican Party.

The maddening thing is that McCain is probably incapable of making it through the campaign, let alone the first two years of presidency, without cracking up. His VP is, as Rush said today, pretty important. Everything Thompson articulated, and most of his voting record itself, showed Thompson to be anti-intrusive-government from the top down, upholding the same political principle I think is exactly what the Republican party SHOULD offer. Yet Thompson has shot his own credibility ten times over.

I've been calling this thing a trainwreck ... it's become a spectacular train wreck.

My stars. All my predictions with regard to Republican candidates have been way off -- I thought (and still do) that Thompson had a seriously solid shot; when he dropped out, that Romney was for sure going to get it. Huck never, McCain only if the world was either horrifically inatentive or plain crazy. My predictions have been a lot better with regard to Hillary and Obama. I predict if the voters choose, it will be Obama. That one is going to come down to sheer voter fraud, so there's not telling.

As for the prospect of Thompson as McMental's VP ... if ever there was a royal kick-in-the-ass of a political choice, that would be it.

[acapesket]

I am sick. My country is gone. I am ready to kill my sister for supporting the Mc Queeg....
I literally cannnot take any more

[lil'bit]

MSNBC, FOX, CNN, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis, etc.

[Mariner]

It was a sound and reasoned decision by Fred.

He cares about the party...and the party is the ONLY hope for liberty.

For those of you, mostly socons, I implore you to rally around McCain. Heck, I don't like the guy either.

My Choice was Fred.

Of course, you could stand on principle and refuse to vote for him...hoping to cleanse the party (and thus electing the Dim). It's a valid choice.

Is it the choice you want to make knowing he's the ONLY one left, with a chance to win, that will fight the jihadis?

If it is, we don't belong in the same party.

[Maelstorm]

I suppose everyone who has endorsed McCain are very close friends. I hope they are maybe he can influence John a bit. Fred carried himself with respect in the race and he got spit on and derided for it. He talked to the people directly and without a lot of show and the people voted for clowns. They have got one now because they like Pavlov dogs were waiting like the left for their government solutions and were swayed by the uttering of the name of Jesus to vote a Christian socialist from Arkansas and a make believe candidate called Mitt Romney.

You get what you vote for folks. Many of you didn’t want a thinking serious leader. One who didn’t mince words when speaking up for America. You wanted a showman with good hair or one who sounded like he came right off the Andy Griffith show. So we have McCain. We can be thankful he has a real conservative record on many issues. That he is a real war hero unlike John Kerry. I know the cherry picked issues that irritate you because they have irritated me too but I’ll give McCain a chance. He says he is for Border security first, let him prove it.

I say give the man a chance. He does have one thing going for him he has never pardoned 1000 criminals and set murderers free. He is for winning the war and keeping taxes low and cutting spending. He’s Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, and anti-special rights for Homosexuals. He is a little crappy on Global Warming but then again tell me which candidate isn’t? He certainly doesn’t sound like he is going to be a huge Climate Change advocate. I’d prefer a President like the one in the Chech Republic who calls global warming a scam but we stopped electing those kind of leaders when Reagan left office.

[NoGrayZone]

I posted that as well. I was hoping you and I were bamboozled.

[Twink]

Yep and I feel the same about him as I do about Hunter now. We’re screwed.

[Senator Goldwater]

Have to. WOT and SCOTUS. ‘nough said...

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Finally, someone on this board gets it.

[dirtboy]

It does. VERY disappointed in him. Fred may sell out his principles for McCain. I won't.

I will respectfully ask you to reconsider. If you hold your opinion, I will not decry you for such.

I wanted Fred. You wanted Fred. But that dog did not hunt.

We are at war. IMO we do not have the luxury of sitting on our hands for this election. The choice is now between a man who will continue to wage that war and two men (yeah, that was deliberate) who will not.

If this were 1992 all over again, we could afford the luxury of a protest vote, or a failure to vote.

But we really don't have that luxury now. Upwards of 4,000 of our finest have died in Iraq. Far more are profoundly injured and will carry that burden for us for the rest of their lives.

I cannot and will not allow that sacrifice to be in vain. McCain's one greatest stance was to push the surge when all others said that was political suicide. He was right when being right on that subject was the most important stance, when all the pundits and far too many in the GOP gave up supporting such.

So I am willing to support him. Although I will fight him tooth and nail on his transgressions shall he win the Oval Office. As you and I fought Bush when he was wrong.

So I strongly and respectfully ask you to reconsider.