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In a soon-to-be published memoir, GOP candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann accuses former President George W. Bush of “socialism” for his 2007 decision to bail out financial institutions teetering on collapse, according to reports. “The Bush administration, which had always professed faith in the free-market system, was now reversing its course,” Bachmann writes in “Core of Conviction,” a memoir to be released Nov. 15, according to Fox News, which obtained a copy. In the book, she criticizes Bush and then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who pushed for the $700 billion TARP program for “embracing a kind of ‘bailout socialism.’” She said...

Gov. Rick Perry is finding himself on unfamiliar battleground in the Republican nominating contest — attacked hard from the right — as the immigration and education policies he has supported to cultivate Hispanic voters put him directly at odds with the GOP’s conservative base. Perry opposes several immigration measures that Republicans like, including a U.S.-Mexico border fence and an Arizona-style legislation to require that police ask those they stop about immigration status. But the thing that continues to dog him on the campaign trail is the 2001 law he signed that allows illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition to attend...

Actually, I think it's Obama's Net Neutrality scheme already being implemented that is to blame. FR has been slower than a Brett Favre 40 yard Dash. Between FR's doldrums and Hunter's typing skills, it will be a better use of an hour of the former Congressman's time (and our time) when JR finally beats back the special agents in the Matrix. We'll reschedule for another day, post-Navidad. He did say to tell JimRob and the Freeper faithful to have a 'MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS and thanks for what your do for the country' (I'll post an interview we did prepping...

At 85, Phyllis Schlafly has still got game. The anti-feminist founder of the conservative Eagle Forum -- who counts Barry Goldwater's 1964 White House run and the 1982 death of the Equal Rights Amendment as exquisite victories and the "internationalist" presidencies of George Bush 41 and 43 as "not helpful to the Republican party" -- hasn't mellowed one whit. That she made abundantly clear Thursday afternoon at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington. Lord knows she still looks great, the poufy blonde hair perfectly lacquered, the fitted tweed jacket tricked out with her signature golden eagle brooch and...

Republican National Committee Chairman Robert M. "Mike" Duncan: "As Barack Obama wheezes over the finish line to his party's nomination, he has failed to convince voters that he has the experience and judgment to serve as Commander in Chief. ... The Republican Party is united behind John McCain, and we look forward to his debates with Barack Obama on how best to create new jobs at home and win the war against radical Islamic extremism."

I was surprised to hear Rush Limbaugh the other day say that there was no 'Thoroughbred' Conservative in the 2008 Republican nomination Field for President. I was thinking to myself, What? Rep. Duncan Hunter is Conservative right down the line. From his web site: Hunter' Ratings National Rifle Association: A+ Americans for Better Immigration: A+ Eagle Forum: 100% Christian Coalition: 100% Family Research Council Action: 100% Campaign for Working Families: 100% Concerned Women for America: 100% National Right to Life Committee: 100% Federation for American Immigration Reform: 100% National Federation of Independent Business: 100% Gun Owners of America: A (Read...

I know that it’s still early, and at this point anything can happen, but in spite of Fred’s slight bump in the polls in SC after the last debate, it’s still a two way race between McCain and Huck. Last night on BlogTalkRadio we were talking about the Thompson campaign, analyzing what went wrong and speculating as to whether or not things could turn around for the campaign. I know a lot of conservatives were stoked when they first heard Fred Thompson was considering running for president. The top tier of Rudy, McCain, and Romney were (and are) found to...

Manchester (NH): Fred Thompson spent most of caucus night in Iowa hovering between third and fourth place -- a far cry from the lofty first-place position he held in Rasmussen's poll of likely Republican caucus-goers last June. It has been a long time since Thompson has made a compelling reason to be in this race. And it should be a very short time before he confesses a compelling reason to exit stage right. A bystander in his own race, Thompson's political what-could-have-been slipped through his fingers long before he announced his candidacy. “The process for running for president has begun...

The four leading Republican candidates for president have demonstrated that they have four distinct styles of flip-flopping. Mitt Romney is the most notorious flip-flopper in the field, and his most notorious flip-flop concerned abortion. He claims that a conversation with scientists about human cloning made him see how abortion had devalued human life. Nobody can prove that Romney isn’t telling the truth, but nobody quites believe him, either. Romney has also changed positions on guns, immigration, and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. But it is not the number of his flip-flops that has impressed people so much as how they have...

Former Senator Fred Thompson to Keynote Conservative Christian Dinner on Friday November 16, 2007 in Hollywood, Florida Contact: Michelle McKinnie, Florida Family Policy Council, 407-251-5130, Media@FLfamily.org HOLLYWOOD, Florida, Nov. 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Florida Family Policy Council (FFPC) www.FLfamily.org will host a Gala Dinner at the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida beginning at 6:30pm on Friday evening, November 16, 2007. The event is being designed to introduce South Florida to the mission of the FFPC and will feature former Senator and Law and Order Actor Fred Thompson as the keynote speaker. Mr. Thompson will be accompanied by his...

The American electorate is a fickle mistress. Just ask former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.). When Thompson announced his candidacy for president just after Labor Day most national polls showed him running a close second behind former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the majority of state polls had him in the top three. No longer. Thompson's campaign has yet to take off as expected and voters -- especially in crucial early states like Iowa, New Hampshire and Florida. The most recent data comes from New Hampshire where two surveys were released over the weekend. The first, conducted by theUniversity...

Republican presidential candidates held a presidential debate last night. Much of the debate centered around criticizing Hilary Clinton, but before they got to Hilary, they spent some time arguing over who is more conservative. My problem is this: listening to them in the debate, all of the candidates sound good. I know that Giuliani is too liberal on too many issues to earn my vote. Romney, as the former governor of the liberal haven of Massachusetts gives me pause if for no other reason than he was elected in Massachusetts. I've heard many things from Romney that make me think...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are urging Fred Thompson to support their stance on homosexuality _ a position on which they say the Republican presidential candidate once "saw eye to eye" with them. Thompson was hired for a mid-1980s legal case in Kansas on the recommendation of Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps. The Topeka, Kan.-based church is now best known for protesting at soldiers' funerals, claiming their deaths are retribution for the nation's acceptance of homosexuality. Thompson campaign spokeswoman Karen Hanretty on Wednesday dismissed the church as "a radical fringe group, looking...

WASHINGTON -- Republicans, it seems, have already decided they're running against New York Senator Hillary Clinton, and have made the Democratic presidential candidate a frequent target on the campaign trail. References to "Hillary-care'' and other derisive remarks about Clinton's platform might rile up the conservative base. Rudy Giuliani, the GOP front-runner in national polls, argues incessantly that he's the one who can beat Clinton next November. But the focus on Clinton makes for a bad general election strategy, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson warned today. Addressing a polite, but unenthusiastic, audience of the Republican Jewish Council, Thompson said his party...

Tuesday night’s debate between the Republican candidates for the GOP presidential nomination showed once again why the majority of conservatives can’t get excited over any of the current hopefuls. Widely touted by the media as show-and-tell time for Fred Thompson – as the appearance that would make or break his candidacy – all that emerged from his corner was an acceptable performance, neither hot nor cold. He showed that he has a good grasp of the economic facts, but there was none of that fire that Republicans crave to see in their standard bearer. He didn’t damage himself, but he...

Hmmm...Ann is just one more who have come to the truth about this blowhard

The Associated Press NASHVILLE -- Tennessee's two Republican senators on Thursday voted in Washington against a non-binding resolution calling for continued support of the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Sen. Bill Frist said the landmark decision is flawed; Sen. Fred Thompson said the Supreme Court should be left alone on the issue."I'm The vote came on a resolution by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. The resolution said: "It is the sense of the Congress that Roe v. Wade was an appropriate decision and secures an important constitutional right and such a decision should not be overturned." A...

Here is Fred Thompson speaking on why he is running for President. He was speaking to the Des Moines Register Editorial Board.

On a campaign stop in Coralville, Iowa, Fred Thompson claimed that he helped guide John Roberts' Supreme Court confirmation through a Democratic-controlled Senate, despite Republicans holding the majority at the time. (more)

Here is Fred Thompson outlining his approach to defending traditional marriage by stopping judicial activism to promote same-sex marriage. Fred was speaking to the editorial board of the Des Moines Register. This is the complete video segment as opposed to a disingenuous cropped version of 1 minute also posted on YouTube.