Posted on 03/08/2007 7:43:28 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
He's a Howard Baker conservative. A RINO light.
I have no opinion of Thompson one way or another, but for all the moral perfectionists here at FR, I must tell them that he is divorced and his second wife is nearly half his age. She's something like 34 years old now. Now, THAT would be interesting.
He's a Howard Baker conservative. A RINO lite.
Sounds like a solid conservative to me.
Thompson said one reason he is hesitant about running is his longtime friendship with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Thompson was one of only four Republican senators to endorse McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign and was an important ally in McCain’s effort to pass campaign-finance reform in 2002.
Too bad Ted Faggard isn't running. We need a clean cut religious guy to give us a choice.
I'd fall into Thompson's camp. Where do you go to tell him he's got support?
I like Duncan Hunter, but Thompson would have the name recognition. Thompson's always played likable authority figures in the movies and TV, so that would give him a leg up.
He is to the right of Bush.
He is absolutely acceptable to this Hunter fan.
You have said that before.
Do you have a source, link?
Those would be good. How about his stand on illegal immigration?
Fred served in the Senate so he's not exactly some dope off the street.
Google Lori Morgan. Nuff said.
I know he dated her.
So what? He was not married. Nothing wrong with that.
That didn't take long.
According to that graph he's pretty similar to the congressman we just dumped. (Joe Schwarz) However a graph doesn't really tell the whole story because Schwarz was a liberal and I know Thompson is no liberal.
In any case I'll keep an open mind but Hunter is still my first pick.
So far, from what has been presented, his biggest negative is that he was a co-sponsor of McCain's Campaign Finance bill, and backed McCain in the 2000 election.
He also seems a bit weak on tort reform.
It's the kind of thing we really mean when we say we are going to need to make some compromises to find a good candidate. I think it's the kind of thing we COULD compromise on if we had to.
It's nothing like having to sell your soul, like you would for Rudy Guiliani.
The other wrap with Thompson is that he doesn't have a lot of "executive" experience, being only a Senator, and not having run a business.
I would like to hear his record/views on immigration, but other than that, I've ALWAYS liked him and his stands as solidly conservative.
GO FRED GO!!!
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