Posted on 12/16/2007 10:01:55 PM PST by bd476
'The Clear Conservative Choice: Hands Down!' Bus Tour Schedule
Contact: Darrel Ng, 571-730-1010; www.Fred08.com
MC LEAN, Va., Dec. 15 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Fred Thompson campaign announces the following schedule for Senator Thompson's bus tour through Iowa from December 17-December 22.
In addition, Senator Fred Thompson will appear in studio for a live interview with Bob Schieffer on CBS's Face The Nation on Sunday December 16 at 10:30 am ET.
Media inquiries for the Iowa tour should contact Darrel Ng at dng@fred08.com.
Members of the public who would like to RSVP or receive more information about the events should contact (515) 276-9427.
Monday, December 17, 2007
What: Fred Thompson Interview on WMT Mornings with Andy Peterson
When: 8:40 am ET, WMT
Where: Cedar Rapids, IA
Note: Listen live at www.wmtradio.com/main.html.
What: Fred Thompson Interview on Brian & The Judge
When: 9:35 am ET
Note: Listen live at www.foxnews.com/radio/brianandthejudge/index.html.
What: Fred Thompson Kicks Off "The Clear Conservative Choice: Hands Down!" Tour
When: 7:00 pm CT
Where: Grand River Center, 500 Bell Street, Dubuque, IA
Note: Doors Open at 6:15 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 6:30 pm
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 10:00 am CT
Where: Days Inn Manchester, 1220 West Marion Street, Manchester, IA
Note: Doors open at 9:30 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 9:40 am
What: Fred Thompson Participates in Radio Town Hall Event Hosted by KDEC's Darin Svenson
When: 1:20 pm CT
Where: Ruby's Restaurant, 120 E Water St, Decorah, IA 52101
Note: Doors open at 12:45 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 12:50 pm
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Waverly and Drops by Waverly Democrat
When: 4:25 pm CT
Where: Waverly Democrat, 311 W. Bremer, Waverly, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 7:00 pm CT
Where: Waterloo Center for the Arts, 225 Commercial Street, Waterloo, IA
Note: Doors open at 6:15 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 6:30 pm
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 9:00 am CT
Where: Cedar Rapids Marriott, 1200 Collins Road NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Note: Doors open at 8:30 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 8:40 am
What: Fred Thompson Participates in Radio Town Hall Event Hosted by KCJJ's Tommy Lang, Richard Podaski, and Steve Soboroff
When: 11:10 am CT
Where: Iowa River Power Company, 501 First Avenue, Coralville, IA 52241
Note: Doors open at 10:30 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 10:45 am
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Tipton and Drops by Tipton Conservative
When: 1:15 pm CT
Where: Tipton Conservative, 124 West 5th Street, Tipton, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Muscatine and Drops by Muscatine Daily Journal
When: 2:35 pm CT
Where: Muscatine Daily Journal, 301 East 3rd, Muscatine, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 6:30 pm CT
Where: Radisson Quad City Plaza, 111 East 2nd Street, Davenport, IA 52801
Note: Doors open at 5:45 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 6:00 pm
Thursday, December 20, 2007
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 10:00 am CT
Where: Carroll Country Club, 20069 Olympic Avenue, Carroll, IA 51401
Note: Doors open at 9:30 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 9:40 am
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Denison and Drops by Denison Review-Bulletin
When: 12:05 pm CT
Where: Denison Review-Bulletin, 1410 Broadway, Denison, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Fred Thompson Participates in Radio Town Hall Event Hosted by KSOM's Tom Robinson
When: 2:15 pm CT
Where: Family Table of Atlantic, Inc., 609 West 7th St, Atlantic, IA 50022
Note: Doors open at 1:45 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 1:55 pm
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Missouri Valley and Drops by Missouri Valley Times-News
When: 4:15 pm CT
Where: Missouri Valley Times-News, 501 E. Erie Street, Missouri Valley, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 7:00 pm CT
Where: Bayliss Park Hall, 530 First Avenue, Council Bluffs IA, 51503
Note: Doors open at 6:15 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 6:30 pm
Friday, December 21, 2007
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 9:00 am CT
Where: The Daily Grind, 511 4th Street, Sioux City, IA 51101
Note: Doors open at 8:30 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 8:40 am
What: Fred Thompson Participates in Radio Town Hall Event Hosted by KDCR's John Slegers
When: 11:35 am CT
Where: Dordt College-West Commons, 498 4th Avenue NE, Sioux Center, IA 51250
Note: Doors open at 11:00 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 11:05 am
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Sheldon and Drops by Northwest Iowa Review
When: 1:45 pm CT
Where: Northwest Iowa Review, 227 9th Street, Sheldon, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Spencer and Drops by Spencer Daily Reporter
When: 3:15 pm CT
Where: Spencer Daily Reporter, 310 East Milwaukee, Spencer, IA
Note: Newspaper Drop-by is closed press. Tour is Open press.
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 7:00 pm CT
Where: Webster County Republican Headquarters, 900 Central Avenue, Fort Dodge, IA
Note: Doors open at 6:15 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 6:30 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2007
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 10:00 am CT
Where: Music Man Square, 308 South Pennsylvania Avenue, Mason City, IA
Note: Doors open at 9:30 am CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 9:40 am
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 1:00 pm CT
Where: Olde Main Brewing Company, 316 Main Street, Ames, IA 50010
Note: Doors open at 12:30 pm CT. Please pre-set all equipment by 12:40 pm
What: Fred Thompson Tours Downtown Marshalltown
When: 3:30 pm CT
Where: Marshalltown, IA
Note: Tour is Open press.
What: Meet Fred Thompson
When: 5:10 pm CT
Where: Friends of Fred Thompson Iowa Headquarters, 2530 73rd Street, Urbandale, IA 50322
Note: Doors open at 4:30 pm CT. Please preset all equipment by 4:40 pm.
ALL TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE
From his campaign website:
And while we dont know for certain how or why climate change is occurring, it makes sense to take reasonable steps to reduce CO2 emissions without harming our economy.
This is, essentially, the regrettable "precautionary principle".
Anyway, I'm hoping to get a chance to ask him about it this week; we'll see what happens.
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I WORK IN TIPTON, SO I’LL TRY AND SEE HIM ON THE TOUR WEDNESDAY AT 1:00. Everything is covered with snow, and it will probably be colder than a witches .....
I was hoping she would; the only answer Fred got to give was, "I agree with Alan Keyes' position on global warming." Which was a great answer itself after Keyes' aimless rant.
I have read his Paul Harvey global warming statement; it's brilliant, but I'm not sure he's standing by it. Hope so.
FRED FRED FRED FRED FRED FRED FRED FRED
GO FRED!!
It was a joke. The moderator asked Keyes about global warming, and his answer was a rant completely unrelated to the question. Fred said, "I agree with Alan Keyes' position on global warming", which got laughs all around. Very funny line.
Pardon me if I have to be frank, but, we need to stick with Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter, them 2 will make a great ticket, they are our only clear choice.
Hunter is a good man, but I have no interest in him as a candidate. He's hyper-protectionist on trade and insists on continually using the meaningless phrase "trade loss" to describe the fact that we're buying more from China than we're selling to them. Economic populism just plain annoys me. And Fred's *not* the "only" clear choice; none of our candidates are perfect.
I wish there was away I can convince you and persuade you to support Fred and not waver.
Well, Fred himself gets a chance in person on Tuesday; we'll see how it goes.
I am not happy with the other candidates, I agree with Rush, that out of the top 4, Fred is the only true conservative.
Rush had good things to say about Fred, but your paraphrase is a rather gross mischaracterization of them.
This is pathetic.
Fred needs to start running on a campaign of “I’ve been conservative the longest” and start running a campaign on being the most serious and qualified candidate in very serious and dangerous times. Being “the conservative choice” only works if people also see him as credible on issues such as terrorism. He needs to be highlighting his experience as chairman of the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board and such. People want a tough candidate who is ready, willing, and able to take on the serious issues facing America. First Fred most prove he is viable on these issues, terrorism chief among them, and only then will him being “the conservative choice” be weighed as a factor.
This is pathetic.
Fred needs to stop running on a campaign of “I’ve been conservative the longest” and start running a campaign on being the most serious and qualified candidate in very serious and dangerous times. Being “the conservative choice” only works if people also see him as credible on issues such as terrorism. He needs to be highlighting his experience as chairman of the State Department’s International Security Advisory Board and such. People want a tough candidate who is ready, willing, and able to take on the serious issues facing America. First Fred most prove he is viable on these issues, terrorism chief among them, and only then will him being “the conservative choice” be weighed as a factor.
I hope Fred knows what he’s doing. He seems to be going into overdrive towards the end of this primary season while sitting out the first half. I hope its not too little too late. Out of the top tier candidates, it is true that Fred is the most conservative. The only thing he screwed up in my opinion was supporting the McCain/Feingold anti first amendment bill. He has apologized for that and now renounces it. I like Romney, but he has flip flopped on just too many issues where it seems that he is pandering to get conservative votes. I liked Huckabee at first, but the more I find out about him, the less I like. Too many tax raises, weak on immigration and nanny state beliefs in government.
Because of there only being one conservative in the top five candidates, I believe Rush Limbaugh could help out tremendously. I agree with his position to not interfere with the primaries by giving out support to someone. Let the candidates fight it out and win the nomination on their own. However, that position only holds true when the top tier candidates hold mostly conservative viewpoints. When only one candidate by and large holds conservative viewpoints out of the top tier of candidates I think it is time for Rush to rethink his position on this and come out in support of that candidate.
I think Fred's strategy is a good one. The mainstream media has consistently tagged him with the "too lazy/no fire in the belly" mantra -- something Fred didn't help with by sitting out for too long and keeping a light schedule. BUT, in the next few weeks, Iowa's going to witness a man campaigning like mad, and newspapers & TV stations raising questions like "Has he found his fire?" and "Is he too late?"
I think that'll give some voters a reason to look at his record. And, if they're conservatives, they'll like him.
Provided Gov. Huckabee is given his due scrutiny on taxes, immigration, pardons, donors, etc., I wouldn't be surprised to see Fred make an Iowa surge. And who knows what momentum can do from there...
You stated earlier in this thread that you were previously leaning towards Romney, but would support Thompson provided he unequivocably declared global warming to be a hoax. If this is truly your remaining criterion before making a firm decision, then there is one more question which needs an answer: "Has Romney declared global warming to be a hoax?"
If he has done so, then your line of argument is consistent and honest. If he has not, then there is something else at play, and your argument sounds remarkably like the myriad of "desperately seeking something to object to" posts which pervade these discussions.
Which is it?
Lazy.
If he has done so, then your line of argument is consistent and honest. If he has not, then there is something else at play, and your argument sounds remarkably like the myriad of "desperately seeking something to object to" posts which pervade these discussions.
Which is it?
Romney has not done so; he's basically taken the Bush line on it, which is better than most of the others but still not great. I'm supporting him because, so far, he's the closest match to what I'm looking for, with Thompson as a close second. But such a declaration from Thompson - or anyone else - would put them over the top for me. Unfortunately nobody in the race has had the courage to say it yet. I fail to see how this is inconsistent or dishonest.
With your clarification which I underlined above, that's a fair enough answer. As long as you are applying that criterion to all candidates equally it negates the appearance of inconsistency.
Looks like Fred’s gonna be in your neck of the woods this week!
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