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Thompson hammers home his conservative bona fides
The Quad-City Times ^ | December 27, 2007 | Tom Saul

Posted on 12/27/2007 7:34:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Just 15 days shy of Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, Fred Thompson hammered home his “constant, consistent conservative” record and values to a crowd of about 150 in Davenport on Wednesday.

With time growing short and Thompson trailing far behind Republican front runners Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, according to a Quad-City Times-Lee Enterprises newspaper poll published over the weekend, Thompson said it was no time to elect a novice to the nation’s most important job at such a crucial juncture in its history.

“It is not time for on-the-job training, it’s time for proven leadership,” Thompson said in a 45 minute speech that touched on hot button issues such as illegal immigration, the future of Social Security and the United State’s role in an increasingly dangerous world.

On immigration, Thompson said the country should secure its borders, send back those who are here illegally regardless of whether they have children here and penalize so-called “sanctuary cities” by withholding federal money from them.

“We should be a nation with high fences and wide gates and we should decide how long they are open,” Thompson told the mostly male partisan crowd. “It’s like our home. We get to decide who comes in our home.”

On the third day of a bus tour that will take him to 50 cities and towns in Iowa, Thompson said he would simplify the nation’s income tax code and flatten tax rates and reform Social Security to save it. Those were all issues he tackled during two terms in the U.S. Senate from 1994 through 2002 when he won a seat in Tennessee formerly held by Democrat Al Gore, he said.

On strengthening the military and battling terrorism, Thompson said, “You don’t go looking for a fight if you’re the United States of America, but if you find yourself in one, you win it.”

David Moeller, 41, of Davenport was an early backer of ex-Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, who dropped out of the race for the Republican nod in August. He now leans toward Thompson and attended the event at the Radisson Quad-City Plaza “to see if he backs up what I think he stands for.” He had his 14-year-old son Michael in tow.

The verdict?

“I didn’t disagree with a single thing he said,” Moeller said. “I hope he can be a candidate and a president who brings back conservative values to the White House. I hope the road he was talking about going down does something to shine a light on the fact that the Republican Party is for the little guy, and not just for big business like some people think, because that’s what the party really is about.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: campaigning; election; electionpresident; elections; fredthompson; gop; ia2008; republicans
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To: unspun
I haven't decided upon a candidate, yet.

This election isn't about abortion and you know it. It's about whether the crushing heel of government will rest on the necks of every American in the form of HillaryCare and every other form of socialism nationalized accordingly.

Ridding ourselves of the biggest threat to individual liberties to come along since Abe F'n Lincoln and Franklin F'n Roosevelt is what's at stake.

Save a Fetus, save a Whale, won't matter much if one's life is spent in servitude. At this point, it's the individual and his/her freedoms against the state. We lose this round, and you'll have the state cracking whips that'll make Roe v Wade pale.

41 posted on 12/27/2007 9:33:03 PM PST by budwiesest (Clowns to the left of me, clowns to the left of me, clowns to the left of me...etc.)
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To: delacoert
It was 15 days until the caucus when Fred gave this speech. I was there. His appearance at the Radisson in downtown Davenport was December 19th.
42 posted on 12/27/2007 9:34:48 PM PST by 2111USMC (www.Fred08.com)
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To: budwiesest
Save a Fetus, save a Whale, won't matter much if one's life is spent in servitude. At this point, it's the individual and his/her freedoms against the state. We lose this round, and you'll have the state cracking whips that'll make Roe v Wade pale.

So a small human life is to be equated with that of a whale?

Many people's lives have been spent in servitude -- many of your and my anscestors. Would you prefer they had been killed in the womb?

Do you see the government doing anything under Hillary Clinton that would further harm someone killed by an abortionist?

43 posted on 12/27/2007 9:40:26 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only compreensive, across-the-board conservative in the race is Alan Keyes.


44 posted on 12/27/2007 9:43:00 PM PST by TBP
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To: 2111USMC
You're right.

Sorry, about that.

45 posted on 12/27/2007 9:46:13 PM PST by delacoert
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fred was so good this morning on FoxNews Channel. Just happened to see it as I was leaving.


46 posted on 12/27/2007 9:52:45 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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47 posted on 12/27/2007 9:55:15 PM PST by Politicalmom (Huckabee’s foreign policy experience consists of eating at the International House of Pancakes.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fred needs to hammer this home!

He is the Conservative candidate in this race that can win (Ron Paul is good domestically, but in the international arena? Pitiful is too kind a word. The Monroe Doctrine died with the advent of air travel/missile technology.)

2nd ID Warriors!


48 posted on 12/27/2007 11:28:06 PM PST by ex 98C MI Dude (All my hate cannot be found)
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To: unspun
" You can't get a tax break if you have been aborted."
" You can't have a thoroughly, politically sacred building block of our whole society in America, if the fallacious travesty of homosexual "marriage" exists in America.

I do not argue with your passion on how to end this abomination in our country, what most Fred Thompson supporters are trying to say is, we need another approach.
We need a President who will not only appoint Strict Constitutional Originalist judges to the Supreme Court, but, in the same vein, judges to the Circuit courts also who will up hold the law, and not make up law, and rule against what the " PEOPLE " voted.
I do trust that Fred WILL appoint Supreme Court Justices to the bench who will not make law on the bench, who will uphold the US constitution as originally visioned.
That is were the major battle is, the Supreme Court.
I would be all for a Amendment For Life, and a Amendment for Marriage, and if it can be done, GREAT, but, it's very very difficult to do.
So we have to take another approach.
The only 2 I trust to appoint judges who would be on our side is : Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter.
I don't care what the rest say, I just DON'T TRUST THEM.
I don't care what Rudy says and promises that he will appoint strict constitutional originalist judges, he and Mitt are just trying to fool us.
49 posted on 12/27/2007 11:37:31 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: unspun
The first and major battle to end this abomination of abortion is at the Supreme Court level.
The only 2 I trust to appoint the kind of judges we need to overturn many bad laws is : Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter.
50 posted on 12/27/2007 11:41:02 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: unspun
So a small human life is to be equated with that of a whale?

Not quite, whales are free.

Many people's lives have been spent in servitude -- many of your and my anscestors. Would you prefer they had been killed in the womb?

You might want to ask that of slaves. Take your trusty reporter kit with microphone and ask the guy on the end of the rope towing ten-ton bricks to the top of a pyramid.[bring lots of bottled water]

Do you see the government doing anything under Hillary Clinton that would further harm someone killed by an abortionist?

Of course not. It's absurd. On the bright side, there are those willing to do what's necessary to prevent the harm of living under another Clinton administration while encouraging those who might seek an abortion to chose a different path. HillCare may even come with incentives to abort. Without the freedom to influence others, few alternatives exist. [aside from the totalitarian ones]

When did you first embrace slavery?

51 posted on 12/27/2007 11:41:16 PM PST by budwiesest (Clowns to the left of me, clowns to the left of me, clowns to the left of me...etc.)
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To: unspun
" Save a Fetus, save a Whale "
I don't think budwiesest was trying to equate a fetus to a whale, more rather, he must have been trying to give a example of the causes, or movements to save ( something ).
What he was trying to say is, our righteous causes or movements won't matter if we have government more intrusive in our life's.
Look, we don't doubt your passion and argument in trying to save the lives of the unborn, we are trying to find a new approach and stradtegery in achieving that goal, even if it takes one step at a time, and the first and major battle is at the Supreme Court level.
There are only 2 in this race whom we trust to appoint judges that we know will up hold our values at the supreme court level, and the circuit court level, and those are : Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter.
52 posted on 12/27/2007 11:51:57 PM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM .53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart, there is no GOD.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I like Fred. What does he believe about Israel? Is he for the terrible and unrealistic "road map to peace"? I hope we stop pushing it. Not only is it ridiculously ill informed but it is putting us as a nation on the wrong side of The Lord God. According to the Bible the anti-Christ is going to ratify a covenant concerning Israel with the promise of peace but it will prove disastrous. I hope the USA will have the wisdom to get out of the middle of the mess and not procure God’s wrath but rather His blessing.
53 posted on 12/28/2007 12:23:33 AM PST by Bellflower (A Brand New Day Is Coming!)
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To: unspun
The little creature in the womb does not know concepts of federalism. In whatever capacity we experience life in these earliest stages, we need love and nurture - not violence. Who would argue that the way we treat the weakest and most defenseless - incl. by way of the beneficence of law - does not reflect our character as a society? Abortion was illegal once. No women went to jail (unless they were the abortionist). Let's make it illegal again and re-inculcate in our society that a human life, no matter how small, how weak, how young, is worth so much it even enjoys protection under the law.

Let's do this.

54 posted on 12/28/2007 1:05:10 AM PST by Lexinom (Build the fence and call China to account. GoHunter08.com)
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To: Sola Veritas

Ping to my last post. The little creature does not know federalism, only that he/she needs love and nurture.


55 posted on 12/28/2007 1:07:17 AM PST by Lexinom (Build the fence and call China to account. GoHunter08.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here’s hoping for a Fred Surge in Iowa.

C’mon, Iowa, rock the world! Force the media off their script! You can do it!


56 posted on 12/28/2007 1:14:19 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: seekthetruth

I just sent mine in also last week. I plan to giving every two months until he’s President.


57 posted on 12/28/2007 2:02:41 AM PST by ONEBYEONE (u)
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To: unspun

Ah...

That explains why there is a single national murder law...

Oh wait...

You tout the Founding Fathers on your home page. Maybe it is time you actually read their work. You will find you are half right.


58 posted on 12/28/2007 2:38:43 AM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: unspun
Neither federalism nor incrementalism are adequate excuses for being against a Human Life Amendment and a Protection of Marriage Amendment.

“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it. “Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything. I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’ If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.” - Ronald Reagan, An American Life (autobiography)

59 posted on 12/28/2007 4:36:52 AM PST by kevkrom (All those in favor of Thompson, don't raise your hand.)
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To: unspun

“You can’t have a thoroughly, politically sacred building block of our whole society in America, if the fallacious travesty of homosexual “marriage” exists in America.”

You can’t possibly be for Huckabee then, since he has stated that sees a right to sodomy in the Constitution. Talk about the downfall of civilization, if sodomy becomes a protected right.


60 posted on 12/28/2007 5:28:32 AM PST by LadyNavyVet (An independent Freeper, not paid by any political campaign.)
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