Fredipedia v2.17: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
Posted on 04/09/2007 4:06:46 AM PDT by Josh Painter
The signs are getting larger and louder that former Sen. Fred Thompson is moving toward a decision to get into the 2008 presidential race. His recent posting on the popular conservative community site RedState... garnered a surprising amount of traffic..
Another sign: other campaigns appear to be getting nervous. Increasingly minions for the Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani camps have been extending a whispering campaign against Thompson, both online and elsewhere...
Beyond attempting to diminish Thompson in the minds of voters, both campaigns -- and their online messengers -- are taking up two lines of attack: that Thompson is a flip-flopper like Romney on the abortion issue, and that Thompson's support of campaign finance reform somehow makes him less of a conservative...
"As far as we can tell, Senator Thompson never cast a pro-choice vote in his eight years in the Senate," says an aide to a current Republican U.S. Senator who asked that his staff look into Thompson, perhaps with an eye to an endorsement down the road...
Something else Thompson wasn't warm to was piles of soft money and the kind of anything-goes fundraising that President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were undertaking back in the 1990s. That's why he supported McCain-Feingold...
Thompson has been straight enough to say that what he voted for -- and President Bush signed into law -- hasn't worked out so well...
"But the fact that these other campaigns are focusing on a guy who isn't even in the race is remarkable to me," says a political consultant who is nonaligned in the race. "Romney ought to be focusing more in his own problems and less on distinguishing himself from someone else. When you're at three percent in the national polls, that's the kind of advice someone should be giving him."
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Good morning. I would vote for him.
I’m NOT one of those admonishing F.Thompson that he must enter the race now. Seems his greatest potential opponents are doing a good job of screwing their own campaigns up. Why not let them continue to implode for awhile while he continues to do commentary that builds his support?
When he decides the time is right run, Fred, run.
Mit Romney would have the most to loose. Fred Thompson would shatter his efforts at courting the conservative base.
Giuliani is in the lead, and at this stage, the nomination is his to loose (McCain has been touting hi pro-life record, but conservatives won’t forgive him for the Gang of 14 mess and abridging free speech).
Post 9/11, any candidate chosen by the far right is guaranteed to hand the election to her heinous.
I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1976. With one exception. I voted third party in 2004 because I determined never to vote for anyone who supported this criminal abuse of the Constitution known as "McCain-Feingold".
Not that it put anything in the balance, because ours was a red state by a 10% margin....
But in 2008 and in future, no matter who the candidate or how close the polls I intend to do the same.
Eslewhere perhaps, but it would never happen on FR
If a right wing fanatic were chosen, then your statement would be true in any election. None of the three major GOP candidates fit that category, nor does Fred Thompson.
D’oh! lol
There is a very important typo(or deliberate mistake) in that article.
“In fact, The American Spectator’s Philip Klein reported that back in 1994 National Right to Life executive co-director Darla St. Martin interviewed Thompson leading into his Senate campaign and confirmed he was against pro-life.”
They need to FIX that “against”.
It was hard enough voting twice for a "compassionate 'so-called' conservative" globalist.
I'll never vote for an anti-gun, pro-gay, pro-abortion liberal.
Fixed.
Other than Tompsons’s divorce and remarriage, do you know a single thing about him or any of his positions.
Yes, I know he played a president in hollywood but what does he stand for besides supporting McCain, supporting CFR, and rolling over for John Glenn.
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That's so weak but I've seen it here. A lot of people liked CFR --- it sounded good to them.
Thompson isn’t far right. He’s mainstream right, but the most conservative electable candidate by far.
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