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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: sushiman

14 posts before the obligatory “it’s all predestined by the CFR” post.


81 posted on 02/08/2008 7:07:34 PM PST by RockinRight (Supreme Court Justice Fred Thompson. The next best place for Fred.)
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To: NoGrayZone
I'm glad I never got too excited about this guy. If it's true, people, we are in a cataclysmic battle against a whole phalanx of Benedict-Arnolds who have sold their souls.

Is it the sell-out ever going to stop?
82 posted on 02/08/2008 7:07:46 PM PST by farmer18th
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Now it’s time for McCain to do the right thing and put Fred on the ticket.

Yeah, right. Two old pharts beyond the age of 60, both with bouts of cancer currently in remission or under control who will remind voters of their grandfathers. That will go over well with the young electorate, won't it?

83 posted on 02/08/2008 7:08:00 PM PST by CedarDave (What's the difference between Britney Spears and John McCain? Nothing, they're both crazy)
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To: NoGrayZone

Them’s the breaks.

“The best laid plans of mice and men
gang aft aglee
and leave us naught but pain and grief
for promised joy”

- Robert Burns


84 posted on 02/08/2008 7:08:24 PM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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To: Perdogg
We can disagree on issues, but at the end of the day it’s about our country.

Yes, yes it is. Which is why none of the three are even remotely acceptable choices.

85 posted on 02/08/2008 7:08:31 PM PST by ShadowDancer ( Losers always look for excuses. Winners never quit.)
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To: Cicero
Fred waited until this was a done deal. Cheney and Bush endorsed McCain sooner than he did. Fred endorsement, therefore, did not give McCain any help toward winning the nomination, as it might have done if he had spoken before Super Tuesday.

I agree. McCain has the numbers. Fred is just trying to rally the troops...as they all will.

86 posted on 02/08/2008 7:08:37 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: ShadowDancer

“You are the exact people that have run this party into the ground.”

Very well and very accurately put. And I second that emotion directed at the surrender monkeys: “Shut it” (please).


87 posted on 02/08/2008 7:08:37 PM PST by David Isaac (Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: Digital Sniper

Don’t knock yourself out over it. We all thought he was a true conservative. Regardless, you put your money where your mouth was. That was the important thing.


88 posted on 02/08/2008 7:08:57 PM PST by Laptop_Ron (McCain/Kennedy--Shouldn't we have at least gotten dinner and a movie first?)
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To: lil'bit

Someone posted it in a FR thread so I googled.... I hope I am wrong, even if it means being hated by everyone here for being such a fool!


89 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:15 PM PST by NoGrayZone (I believe we are witnessing the birth of the new Conservative Party....Grab a cigar!)
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To: CedarDave

With Hillary, that makes 3. Except in Hill’s case, she is the cancer.


90 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:25 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: squidly

“(if you can stand all the crime, which is difficult)”

Shouldn’t you be saying “If you can survive all the crime”??


91 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:28 PM PST by devere
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To: NoGrayZone
With Romney out, and with no real delegate count and his campaign already ended (and not suspended) this is no surprise at this point.

Once Mccain gets enough delegates to put him over the top, I expect Romney will do the same. In the mean time, Romney's suspension means that if something happened to McCain (blow up, fopah, sickness, heart attack, stroke, etc.) Romney could step right back into it, retaining the delegates he has.

Despite the serious issues with McCain...and they are serious (like immigration, global warming, etc., etc.)...and despite his temperment and disdain for conservatives, and despite many of us having such great disgust for him over these issues... McCain would continue aggressively prosecuting actual military opeations in the war, he would hold the ground on abortions of fetuses in the womb, and he would be much better for the SCOTUS than either of the democrats. So the GOP leadership and candidates will rally around him because in those later areas, the democrats would be far worse.

92 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:31 PM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Laptop_Ron; sushiman
It was obvious from the very beginning.

Reminder and Facts

Not to mention that Fred not only voted for McCain's CFR, but he was instrumental in getting it past, he was No 3 in after McCain and Feingold in supporting and pushing it through.

93 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:43 PM PST by FocusNexus
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To: NoGrayZone

This is no surprise. BFD!

GO Fred GO!


94 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:43 PM PST by Reagan Man (McCain Wants My Conservative Vote --- EARN IT or NO DEAL !!!)
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To: sushiman

You’ve probably seen this already but I was unaware of this group until recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bilderberg_attendees


95 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:43 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: ShadowDancer

Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood your intentions.


96 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:45 PM PST by Laptop_Ron (McCain/Kennedy--Shouldn't we have at least gotten dinner and a movie first?)
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To: NoGrayZone

Fred’s greatest flaw as a candidate for me was always the company that he kept when he served in the Senate. I still think Fred was the best choice given the choices, but I am not surprised. Fred, I suspect would eventually have still endorsed McCain, even if Romney could have taken a competitive race to the convention.


97 posted on 02/08/2008 7:09:56 PM PST by Biblebelter (I will NEVER EVER vote for McCain or any other current Senator.)
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To: lil'bit

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1967453/posts?page=46


98 posted on 02/08/2008 7:10:00 PM PST by NoGrayZone (I believe we are witnessing the birth of the new Conservative Party....Grab a cigar!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

FR is infested with whacko extremists. This campaign has been a real revelation.


99 posted on 02/08/2008 7:10:05 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (If you don't vote, you don't matter.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Now it’s time for McCain to do the right thing and put Fred on the ticket. (And after the election, Dick Cheney can take McCain hunting).

LOL! You like McCain now?

100 posted on 02/08/2008 7:10:05 PM PST by FreeReign
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