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Can Thompson's late effort pay off?
Gannett News Service ^ | December 23, 2007 | Williams Theobald

Posted on 12/24/2007 12:08:24 AM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball

Edited on 12/24/2007 12:43:32 AM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Soliton
Huck is the real deal.

I've got some prime swampland real estate in Arizona to sell you...or perhaps you would be interested in buying a historic bridge in Brooklyn?

21 posted on 12/24/2007 1:50:22 AM PST by NautiNurse (Plants are people too)
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To: NautiNurse

Near Yuma, I hear? ;)


22 posted on 12/24/2007 1:55:01 AM PST by GOPyouth (Common Sense! Conservative Principles! Fred Thompson for President!)
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
My secular and staunchly sister-in-law is convinced that she’ll leave the country if Huckabee is elected. You’ld think that Taliban was about to overrun the country as fearful as she was.

Hillary wants to run against Huckabee because his fear factor will rally the secular progressives like nothing else.

23 posted on 12/24/2007 1:55:47 AM PST by Blue State Insurgent (Thompson Democrats)
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To: Soliton
I think Santa is on the way.. I will caucus with her tonight
24 posted on 12/24/2007 1:55:55 AM PST by primatreat ( Hold political and scientific idiots responsible by taking there money and glory away!)
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To: Soliton
Huck forsook the gospel ministry to become a politician, though he retains the title of minister, he is not one. That is not devotion, let alone true devotion!

He is a theological social gospel liberal seeking the kingdom of this world. Both his misapplication of the Bible and his political socialism reflect this. He is not “evangelical” or he would still be preaching not campaigning.

25 posted on 12/24/2007 1:57:43 AM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold)
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To: Soliton

“I supported Fred until the attacks came on Huck. If you compare the two’s proposed platforms they are very similar.”

Um, you’ve -got- to be kidding. They’re not even -remotely- similar. They’re not even on the same planet, except on abortion, and even there, why doesn’t Huck taking tens of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from the biggest stem cell researching company in the world bother you? It sure bothers me.

Qwinn


26 posted on 12/24/2007 1:59:34 AM PST by Qwinn
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To: Soliton
Criticisms of Huck are based on his past and not on his platform.

When did his positions change and why?

Fred's positions have remained constant throughout his political career. He doesn't have to twist word meaings or try to redefine conservatism to fit his platform.

...just that he is acting like a Southern Christian and people are more comfortable with faux Christians than real ones. Fred is a Hollywood facsimile.

That's an interesting thing to say considering one of the slams against Thompson is that he doesn't go to church often enough. If Fred were putting on a faux Christian costume, it would have been easy for his to start carrying a Bible and showing up at church every Sunday. He didn't do that because that's not how he lived his life prior to starting the campaign. If he'd suddenly altered his routine to include church on Sunday, you'd have better luck making the case.

27 posted on 12/24/2007 2:13:50 AM PST by jellybean (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=dailyfread Proud Ann-droid and a Steyn-aholic)
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To: Soliton
Fred and Huck’s STATED positions are almost identical. Criticisms of Huck are based on his past and not on his platform. Please go to his site and then criticize his positions.

There's a huge problem here. Fred has been a consistant conservative. That can hardly be said for Huckabee. There is nothing conservative about jacking up taxes, supporting socialized medicine (see SCHIP), joining the Global Warming© alarmists, calling for the shutdown of military detainment centers for terrorists, and rattling off propoganda that could seriously pass off as a discounted MoveOn.org ad in the NYTimes.

28 posted on 12/24/2007 2:18:16 AM PST by GOPyouth (Common Sense! Conservative Principles! Fred Thompson for President!)
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
McCain and Huckster are RINO's. Guiliani won't get the social conservative vote. Romney is an illusion. Only Fred is a consistent conservative. NOT a PERFECT conservative...but he's 90% there.

I had a conversation with my very lib bro-in-law. He laughed about Hillary being a total joke but strongly supported McCain "as a true moderate who did whatever it took to get the job done."

I thought it was an interesting statement. I honestly believe our primary process has been heavily corrupted by liberals who have either lied to pollers on their political affiliations or actually registered to vote as republicans in the primaries.

It's really the only explanation I can give for filthy RINOs getting such polling results. I don't know any republicans who are actually voting for them, so far their support seems to come from the left.

29 posted on 12/24/2007 2:19:31 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: jellybean
If he'd suddenly altered his routine to include church on Sunday

In that case wild horses couldn't drag me to vote for him.

30 posted on 12/24/2007 2:20:47 AM PST by HerrBlucher (He's the coolest thing around, gonna shut HRC down, gonna turn it on, wind it up, blow em out, FDT!)
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To: Soliton
Watch the Marjo Gortner film on Evangelical charismatic preachers and get back with me on the acting statement.

ROFLMAO

31 posted on 12/24/2007 2:21:49 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: Soliton
I supported Fred until the attacks came on Huck. If you compare the two’s proposed platforms they are very similar.

Absurd.

32 posted on 12/24/2007 2:21:55 AM PST by Petronski (Willard Myth Romney: 47% negatives)
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To: wardaddy
hell, there are folks who just dismiss the whole state of Arkansas... it’s the old it’s ok to bash Southern Christians thing here....

LET'S GET 'EM - LOL!

Most of my family is from Arkansas. The single consistent thing they continue to repeat is don't vote for anyone from Arkansas. My mom used to work in the state house when she was a PYT in the 50's. She said it was like a constant track event where you had to continually run away from all the lechers. She left after an exceptionally short time of this, disgusted.

Malvern, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Ouachita...I'm from Memphis myself, though. Good folks all over up there.

33 posted on 12/24/2007 2:26:51 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Soliton; John Valentine
I am not saying that Fred is acting conservative, just that he is acting like a Southern Christian and people are more comfortable with faux Christians than real ones. Fred is a Hollywood facsimile.

Comment:

ROFLMAO

Nice to know that we Southern Christians are not real Christin material.

You might want to get down on your knees and ask God just how (FAUX) we Southerners are in how we treat our commitment to God and country.

If you have any smarts you would ask half of FR to forgive you for such an inane offending statement.

34 posted on 12/24/2007 2:31:20 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: verklaring

Excellent comment.


35 posted on 12/24/2007 2:34:13 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: jellybean
Fred's positions have remained constant throughout his political career. He doesn't have to twist word meaings or try to redefine conservatism to fit his platform.
And his positions are consistent with a conservative view of the US constitution that is shared by only one other candidate: Duncan Hunter.

All the others, including Huckabee, fail to demonstrate even the slightest understanding of the relationship between a conservative view of the US constitution and the entire concept of American Liberty.

36 posted on 12/24/2007 2:36:03 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Soliton
I supported Fred until the attacks came on Huck.

Exactly what 'attacks' has Fred made on Huck. The only things I've seen coming from Fred about his opponents is making sure the voting public knows exactly what the other candidates have done, or have stood for in the past. Using your opponents words to make your point is not an attack, it's simply informative.

37 posted on 12/24/2007 3:01:54 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Soliton
I am not saying that Fred is acting conservative, just that he is acting like a Southern Christian and people are more comfortable with faux Christians than real ones. Fred is a Hollywood facsimile.

I think you have the wrong person who's acting like a Southern Christian. Fred has stated strongly that though he is a Christian, and a believer, he's not bringing that up in the race, because that's a private matter, and he won't pander to the voters in that way. To me, that's a breath of fresh air!

As far as the variations on Huckabee's name, there are folks here who've done that, but it wasn't Fred.

38 posted on 12/24/2007 3:07:01 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: Soliton

What Huckabee STATES and what he has DONE are sometimes different things. Since we have certainty about his actions, I think that’s what most folks would assume he would DO again, no matter what he says to try to get elected.


39 posted on 12/24/2007 3:09:21 AM PST by SuziQ
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To: GOPyouth
" And will tell you that you are un-christian if you don't agree with him. "

Just like the Mitt Bots would say, that if you disagree with them, your are a bigot.
40 posted on 12/24/2007 3:19:51 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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