Posted on 02/08/2008 6:53:23 PM PST by 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
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Please, stop with the insults. If those are the first words out of your mouth, I dont even bother reading the rest of your crap!
Well, whether we like it or not, we’re getting a senator for POTUS this time around.
Hahahahahahahaha
"Pubbies"? As in "Republicans"?
Wasn't there once a political party by that name?
I gotta tell ya...thank you for an intelligent response.
Becoming rare these days.
I will be right behind watching as he drives his little band wagon over the cliff.
Fred is gone from the scene, probably relishing the circumstances so he can get on with the life he really want to have. IMHO, McCain should (and perhaps will) bring a true Conservative in as VP and heir apparent. My guess = George Allen.
Did you have the same problem every time a conservative endorsed Mitt and everyone here said they were bought?
Say it ain’t so, FRed!! :*(
Had to delete you out of my sig line for that...God help our country. Is all lost? :*(
Not this one.
I was for Fred from the get go because I think he's an adult who can think without getting into a snit if everything doesn't go his way.
He'll stand his ground, but he's also a realist - ie, a grownup. He assesses the situation that IS, rather than the one we wanted but that has gone by - and decides what the best strategy is now.
He's not gonna take his marbles and go home, he's gonna play them to win against the bigger enemy...
On the other hand, looks like there's going to be a lot of thumb-suckers sitting home with their marbles in their laps...but feeling very superior to everyone else.
That was one of my first thoughts, after the horror and shock wore off—just how many VPs is McCain allowed to have if he becomes president?!?!?!?!
“Why does he have that debt? Because the “conservatives” that he depended on to help fund his effort took a hike and gave their money to more moderate and “independent” candidates and left the three conservative candidates to swing in the wind.
If you don’t understand things like this, you’re a political neophyte at BEST!”
You were doing fine until you got to the above part. Many would say that Fred is the one who took a hike, by waiting so long to begin acting like a serious candidate. Then it was too late.
I’d hoped from early on the Fred or Romney would emerge as the nominee, but Fred ran a very poor campaign, and fell far short of his potential.
Only a political neophyte would fail to understand why Fred’s support began to dissipate, both his financial and voter support.
Although I doubt it, Fred may have already been offered the veep or some important post....where he can actually do some good.
Has it ever occurred to anyone that 90% of politics is hammered out behind closed doors.....and not one soul here knows what's going on behind the scenes now with McCain, Hucklebee, Fred, Guiliani, etc.
This is not "selling out" by any one of them....and not "treason" by anyone. They're all doing what politicians do in the big leagues, cutting deals, making pacts and alliances, whatever. They will all win something if the GOP wins.....and just maybe, just maybe, folks, some of them have the good of the Republic in mind, not the socialism, marxism of a Hillary/Osama administration.
Fred doesn't NEED anything from McCain at all. It's the other way around, folks. Fred can have a good life with his family doing his occasional acting gigs, giving speeches, doing lectures at colleges to skulls full of mush, whatever. No one will ever have to have a tag day for Fred.
This is politics we're seeing. So many conservatives are unsophisticated about the inner workings. What's going on this week in endorsements is what's been going in since Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, LBJ, JFK, GWB. The Democrats or Republicans or Whigs will rally round their party when the candidate is chosen. What should they do, leave the party?
Our political system is sometimes weird and sometimes disappointing or enraging, but it's our system. A heck of a lot of countries in this world have very peaceable elections with no infighting or deals. In fact, many of them have one-party systems or no elections at all.
Toughen up to things as they are and not as some folks would like it to be.
Vote for the preservation of the Republic....don't stay home......the marxists and commies are banging at D.C.'s gate. We have to swallow hard and keep them out.
Fred hasn't turned into a liberal overnight....too many folks have no faith or trust in ANYTHING or ANYBODY any more and are trying to get the rest of us on FR to be the same way. This is one of the planks in the marxist agenda, lose all faith and become cynical about your great country.
The nihilist political posts on this forum won't work with me at all.
Leni
Exactly. You may have read some of my earlier posts on other related threads.
Is she sure that wasn’t Duncan Hunter at a Huckabee rally?
FOR THE LAST TIME, I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!!!!
‘McCain/Crist’
I’m having a hard enough time thinking of voting for McCain.....but, I know I WILL NOT VOTE FOR CRIST.
On the very same day they start hawking cherry Slurpees in Hell, Fred.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/11/27/guns.htm
McCain: Terrorists bypass laws by using gun shows
By Susan Page
WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain says he will force Senate consideration of a controversial gun control measure early next year bolstered by a newly powerful argument: Foreign terrorists have exploited a loophole to buy weapons at gun shows while bypassing federal background checks.
“Clearly, alleged members of terrorist organizations have been able to secure guns and weapons using the gun show loophole,” McCain, R-Ariz., said in a telephone interview with USA TODAY. “I think that lends some urgency” to tightening the law.
McCain and Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, notified GOP colleagues this week that they would attach the legislation to the first appropriate bill, probably a homeland security measure, after the Senate convenes in January.
The parliamentary move is likely to force debate on one of the most divisive issues in American politics, one that has been largely sidelined for the past year.
The proposal, also sponsored by Democratic senators Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Charles Schumer of New York, would mandate checks on buyers at weekend gun shows similar to those now in effect for customers of federally licensed gun dealers. The National Rifle Association and other critics call the proposal unworkable and intrusive.
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