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Fred Thompson Backs McCain
Washington Post ^ | 2/8/08 | Michael D. Shear

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; conservatives; elections; endorse; fredthompson; juanmccain; mccain; mcmexico; mcstain; ourmexicanoverlords; rinostampede; thompson
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To: Enchante

fwiw, I’m really not a GW-basher (most of the time)..... but he’s far from my ideal conservative president. I’ll take him over any of the most likely alternatives of the past decade but he has disappointed me (and others) so many times with his softness toward socialistic, big-government, big-spending, open borders weasels, allowing the ‘Rats and MSM to run wild over Plamegate and Gitmo and waterboarding etc., signing the despicable “Campaign Finance Reform” etc. etc. There’s no other current national leader who would have been better the past 6 years in the GWOT but I’m not myopic about the failings of the Bush admin. that could have been SO much better.......


781 posted on 02/08/2008 11:23:37 PM PST by Enchante (Hillary Clinton: As a little girl near Chicago I always dreamed of the NY Giants in the SuperBowl!!)
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To: Hattie
Politics is war. And it is dirty.

And in spite of what the starry eyed think the big plays happen in back rooms.

783 posted on 02/08/2008 11:24:19 PM PST by TigersEye (I'm a maverick. I'm sticking with conservatism.)
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To: Sun
Why would all of the voters, who were plenty angry, and fought so hard to stop the McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill by calling their reps., etc., end up voting for McCain.

That is the question I have been asking myself for weeks.

It makes absolutely no sense.

784 posted on 02/08/2008 11:24:35 PM PST by jan in Colorado ("It's easier to believe a lie one hears 1,000 times than to believe a fact that one has never heard)
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To: Kevmo
You're so articulate.

Ever thought about writing for a living?

(Don't)

785 posted on 02/08/2008 11:26:39 PM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: jan in Colorado

In Texas, our primary is a month away.


786 posted on 02/08/2008 11:27:21 PM PST by txhurl (Don't sausage me, bro!)
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To: NoGrayZone

No surprise, Fred always hung with McCain. I tried to tell my hubby a year ago, but he didn’t believe me. Whatever.


787 posted on 02/08/2008 11:27:42 PM PST by katykelly
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To: txflake
I'll bet they won't have a write in place either. We had eight votes for Mitt in our family and my daughter said she doesn't want to vote now. I told her I thought maybe they couldn't take Romney's name off since he just suspended.

We saw the Straight Talk Express bus on I-20 Thursday. Spouse made a bad signal. LOL. Anyway I am going to call someplace and find out what's ahead on this.

788 posted on 02/08/2008 11:28:07 PM PST by Hattie
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To: txflake
The Primaries need to change, don't you think? It really isn't right that a few liberal states get to pick the nominee!
789 posted on 02/08/2008 11:31:54 PM PST by jan in Colorado ("It's easier to believe a lie one hears 1,000 times than to believe a fact that one has never heard)
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To: TigersEye
And in spite of what the starry eyed think the big plays happen in back rooms.

Yup. Now I wonder what the Dems back room is going to do about Obama though.

790 posted on 02/08/2008 11:32:09 PM PST by Hattie
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To: Laptop_Ron
Your tagline:

I think it’s a little too subtle for some people or maybe it’s just an old concept.

Old concept. I was thinking along the same lines, only "McCain/Kennedy: shouldn't we get a kiss first?"

791 posted on 02/08/2008 11:32:46 PM PST by PosterQue (Independant and free from the GOPlantation)
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To: EternalVigilance

No matter which conservative we support, we don’t matter. Conservatives are a small minority in this country now. Big government compassionates and liberals have taken over.


792 posted on 02/08/2008 11:33:19 PM PST by Bull Market (I will not vote for John McCain.)
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To: Darkwolf377

~”But just folding and letting the other guy collect the pot isn’t a win, no matter how one wants to claim it is such.”~

Who’s folding? But sometimes you let the other fella get overconfident so you can call his bluff next time around.

Since we don’t have a strong hand, no better time to let the other side get cocky.


793 posted on 02/08/2008 11:34:22 PM PST by tantiboh (Don't blame me. I supported Romney!)
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To: Hattie
"Now I wonder what the Dems back room is going to do about Obama though."

Obama/Pelsoi...to get the single females and purchase an insurance policy for impeachment.

794 posted on 02/08/2008 11:34:58 PM PST by Earthdweller
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To: Hattie

The Dem side is a different story. They aren’t being controlled by a unified Party elite like the Pubbies are. They are in an internal power struggle. The Kennedy faction is trying to wrest back the Party from the Clintons. Obama is the Kennedy’s man. There will be no back room deal on that it’s a blood fight for Party control.


795 posted on 02/08/2008 11:36:25 PM PST by TigersEye (I'm a maverick. I'm sticking with conservatism.)
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To: sushiman

Exactly. They don’t want to hear our voice but we still have a voice in our own way but we have to use it.


796 posted on 02/08/2008 11:36:35 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Tennessee Nana
RINO FRomnbey calls Hunk “the Hickster”

I'm calling you out on that one. You are a damned liar and you know you are a damned liar! And I do mean DAMNED!

797 posted on 02/08/2008 11:37:28 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Politics are about compromise, not about getting everything you want.... Truthsearcher)
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To: Bull Market

...and that, my FRiends, is the bottom line.


798 posted on 02/08/2008 11:39:05 PM PST by Serb29 ("Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts ". - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Earthdweller

Nope, Obama is going to have to place a tough white guy for Veep.


799 posted on 02/08/2008 11:39:07 PM PST by txhurl (Don't sausage me, bro!)
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To: Laptop_Ron

Lots of things could happen between now and the Convention...McCain is old.


800 posted on 02/08/2008 11:39:28 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Politics are about compromise, not about getting everything you want.... Truthsearcher)
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