Your post cracked me up: that Thompson is not a RINO compared to any of those on your list. He’s been to the left of most of those on some issues. Thompson has been a long-time McCain supporter including supporting campaign-finance reform. When he backed out of the race to whom did he throw his support? If you’re calling Jindal a RINO all I can say is WOW.
FYI... Fred Thompson was candidate #1 on FR in 2008.
If Fred was a Rino he never would have gotten past the forum front door, newbie.
“Your post cracked me up: that Thompson is not a RINO compared to any of those on your list.”
One mistake does not a RINO make. And he is not a candidate now or likely to become one so it is moot. As far as Thompson being a RINO, Rush Limbaugh and Jim Robinson both supported him in 2008 with glowing comments. I haven’t got time to list the reasons, but I will submit to you that Rush and JR (and you can add Mark Levin, who was “leaning” to Thompson before he withdrew)NEVER support Rinos.
“If you’re calling Jindal a RINO all I can say is WOW.”
All I can say is WOW. Do you know that he made a deal with legislators to triple their pay in return for getting his toothless ethics reforms through? He had to back down when the deal became public, but was late to do so. He is a very big spender in Louisiana and has spent much of his time outside the state fundraising for a Presidential run while collecting a paycheck from the citizens of Louisiana. Finally, when the state’s GOP senator, David Vitter, got in trouble about an indiscretion seven years before, Jindal came out and condemned him, which I found to be a political calculation and quite ungratious in light of the fact that Vitter had cleared the field of candidates for Jindal to run for Vitter’s old seat in Congress (which he vacated in 2004 on election to the Senate) move from Baton Rouge, where he had lived his entire life (except for college and a Washington job) to suburban New Orleans in 2005 (even though several of the candidates had announced for the job including the current congressman, Steve Scalise), which Jindal used as a springboard for his successful run for the Governor’s mansion in 2007, also with Vitter’s support.
In my book, a governor who cuts a back room deal to triple legislator’s pay, and has be be forced away from it, travels the country fundraising for a Presidential run while collecting a state check, is a big spender, and tries to score political points at the expense of someone who has done much to help him, is a RINO, and and a particularly disloyal one.
I used to have high hopes for Jindal. No more.
