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Is Fred Thompson the toughest tough guy in presidential race?
The Standard-Times (South Coastal MA) ^ | September 10, 2007 | Jack Spillane

Posted on 09/10/2007 2:07:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary is the toughest guy in the race. Just ask Vince Foster, or any of the other victims of “Arkan-cide”.


21 posted on 09/10/2007 4:35:49 AM PDT by flowerplough (Not a sociopath, merely a delusional narcissist.)
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Unfortunately you are right. Hellery is the toughest, and has the skeletons in her closet to prove it.

Thats the kind of toughness we don't need.

Is Fred tough enough to stay the course?

I bet not, based on his soft legislative record.

22 posted on 09/10/2007 4:47:23 AM PDT by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: Candor7; Clara Lou

It is a shame electoral campaigns are not like baseball, where there is a date, fairly early in the season, where the bottom of the league is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, and the contenders can get on with things.


23 posted on 09/10/2007 4:52:07 AM PDT by gridlock (I don't support Hillary Clinton because I am afraid of strong women.)
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To: Candor7

Toughness is not an issue. This is just the very first instance of post-election whining and navel gazing by the losers. It is just coming 14 months before the election, that’s all.

2008 will be no more about toughness than 2004 was about “values voters”. These are just excuses Democrats use when they lose.


24 posted on 09/10/2007 4:54:21 AM PDT by gridlock (I don't support Hillary Clinton because I am afraid of strong women.)
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To: Candor7

Golly, loser, you used obscene language “in context.” Guess the mods didn’t think much of it, either. And now you try to explain your way out of it! Duncanista clown. You’ve proved my point twice-over. No class, no class at all.


25 posted on 09/10/2007 5:01:19 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: gridlock; b9

You’re so right. When you have 4 candidates sharing 2% in the polls, you’d think they’d get a clue. But, you know, as long as they are still in, they can pull campaign donation$. Every little bit help$, I gue$$.


26 posted on 09/10/2007 5:06:01 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou

Yup ~ $$$ follow the yellow brick load $$$


27 posted on 09/10/2007 5:39:34 AM PDT by b9 ("Fred... doesn't suffer fools and he has the guts and the microphone to say what I think" ~ Samwise)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fred really socked it to the Clintons for all that illegal campaign financing they received from the Chinese in 1997. Wonder when Bill and Hillary are getting out of the big house as a result of his investigations?


28 posted on 09/10/2007 5:52:20 AM PDT by asparagus
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29 posted on 09/10/2007 6:13:09 AM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (John Cox 2008: Because Duncan Hunter just isn't obscure enough for me!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Being a tough guy is also the key to Rudy Giuliani's popularity.

Oh puh-leaze. Rooty is a 'tough guy' like I'm the King of Siam who does heart transplants in my spare time.

Rooty is an effete, limp wristed, lisping, nancy boy, draft dodger. He's also a power mad liberal control freak BULLY (Just like all liberals).

That's not 'toughness' it's fascism.

30 posted on 09/10/2007 6:27:44 AM PDT by Condor51 (Rudy makes John Kerry look like a Right Wing 'Gun Nut' Extremist)
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To: gridlock

Who cares? Remember Jimmie Carter?


31 posted on 09/10/2007 6:33:38 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Most men with boyish sounding names change them to the short version when they grow up, I.E.: Freddy(freddie), Bobby, Tommy all these are usually shortened to sound more adult. I don’t blame him one bit for changing it. It’s not like he changed it since he announced, he changed in back in the 1960s. Dems are obviously terrified of Fred, the hit pieces just keep rolling in.


32 posted on 09/10/2007 6:59:04 AM PDT by calex59
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Freddie Dalton Thompson (his given name), all folksy and self-assured...

The talking points get around don't they.......

33 posted on 09/10/2007 7:05:17 AM PDT by Doofer (Fred Dalton Thompson For President)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My parents called me “baby” until I was four or so. :)


34 posted on 09/10/2007 7:14:42 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: gridlock

Well, it’s not like he changed it to Savage, LOL.


35 posted on 09/10/2007 7:30:11 AM PDT by chaos_5 (Fred and Hunter 08)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
Who cares? Remember Jimmie Carter?

Ummm... bad example.

36 posted on 09/10/2007 7:32:34 AM PDT by LexBaird (Behold, thou hast drinken of the Aide of Kool, and are lost unto Men.)
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To: All; David Isaac

“I would think that their reason for not participating, is that their is a chance that they might not win, something no politician would want. The voters at the Value Voters debate are no-doubt dedicated conservatives, who know the difference between professing it and actually doing/living it.”

That’s about it, and in the Values Voters debate they will ask questions about BORDERS, as well as the obvious like abortion, marriage.

Hope you’ll watch it online on Sept. 17 at 7:30 ET.


37 posted on 09/10/2007 11:04:08 AM PDT by Sun (Duncan Hunter: pro-life/borders, understands Red China threat! http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx)
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I’ll be seeing and talking to Duncan Hunter, this Friday. He and most of the rest of the candidates will be appearing at the Michigan GOP Leadership Conference. I’ll be spending most of my time in the Hunter booth.

Keep the faith.


38 posted on 09/10/2007 12:35:34 PM PDT by David Isaac (Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: David Isaac

Boy am I jealous of you. :) If you have a chance, please ping me a line or two on how it went.

Duncan Hunter was just on Mark Levin’s show, and Hunter is really is so personable.

Also, Rush Limbaugh played a clip of Hunter’s speech today re: Petraeus.

Here’s Hunter’s speech, in case you missed it:

http://tank.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDZmMTk1ZGU3MWE3ZjEwYjE5Zjk4ZTEzYzQ3NTQxZDk=

http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx


39 posted on 09/10/2007 3:48:26 PM PDT by Sun (Duncan Hunter: pro-life/borders, understands Red China threat! http://www.gohunter08.com/Home.aspx)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Man, Second Div., you let me off easy. I read the article again (not at 3:20 a.m. this time) and I need to delete my prior post.

What angered me was the swipe at President Reagan’s “lack” of military service. Apart from enlisting in the 1930s, he was excluded from combat on account of poor eyesight.

Verifying that I found this link, of which the author seems completely oblivious to: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/military.html

This is posted because the folks who write for newspapers do not fact check — and then base a calumny on something demonstrably false.

I will stop posting at 3:00 a.m. from now on.

Thanks for your ever-vigilant work against the amnesty legislation a few months ago. And thanks for letting me off light for a bum reply.


40 posted on 09/10/2007 4:02:44 PM PDT by bajabaja
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