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.”
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is the most supportive of Israel
InfoIsrael.net ^ | June 11, 2007 | Anthony David Marks and Hannah Amit
Posted on 06/11/2007 2:02:54 PM EDT by Politicalmom
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is the most supportive of Israel out of a dozen or so politicians seeking to win the US presidential seat. The former actor, who has also served as a US senator, claims Israel has been too restrained in its responses to Palestinian terrorism.
“Israel is at war,” Thompson opined in a column for the conservative website Townhall.com. And the Jewish State has gone to “incredible lengths to stop the war against them without harming Palestinian non-combatants.”
Thompson is also recorded as supporting an Israeli military strike against Iran, should international boycotts and diplomacy fail to detour the Islamic Republic from its nuclear arms race.
Thompson is expected to make his first visit to Israel in the near future where he will meet with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and other senior officials.
Liberal political elements in Israel fear Thompson is too far-right in his opinions and may do eventual harm to Israel. There are many in Israel, however, who would welcome Thompson and his hard-line policy against terror onboard the US leadership team. (Sources: Israel Today/IHC)
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=2/a/ix/110620074
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Speaking Out Against Iran and Syria. “The terror masters in Tehran and Damascus make only the most minor distinction between America and Israel. They say that America is the Great Satan, and Israel is the Little Satan, and both must be destroyed. The US must make it clear that we will not allow Iran to become a nuclear threat….In addition to pursuing sanctions and other traditional means, we need to take other steps to reach out to the Iranian people and help them get rid of their hated regime. Our goal is peace and freedom. The US must willingly accept its accustomed role of leadership in this effort.” (Thompson Statement Before the Republican Jewish Coalition on 10/16/07)
Affirming U.S. Support of Israel. “During last night’s debate in New Hampshire, I was appalled that none of the leading Democrats would stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran—a country intent on acquiring nuclear weapons and whose leader has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. A Thompson Administration would stand by Israel and all of our friends in the region. We would not wait for U.N. permission to support an ally or defend our interests abroad. The U.N. has not shown sufficient resolve toward stopping Iran’s nuclear ambitions.” (Thompson Press Release, 9/27/07)
Defending Israel’s Reaction To Missile Launches From Gaza. In defending Israel’s military response to these attacks he stated, “Let me ask you a hypothetical question. What do you think America would do if Canadian soldiers were firing dozens of missiles every day into Buffalo, NY? I can tell you, our response would look nothing like Israel’s restrained and pinpoint reactions to daily missile attacks from Gaza. We would use whatever means necessary to win the war.” (Haaretz, 9/12/07)
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Senate Record. Fred Thompson supports legislation that advances the United States’ and Israel’s security and interests. During his time in the U.S. Senate, Fred Thompson voted for a number of measures important to both countries, including-
* A Senate Resolution in 2002 Expressing Solidarity With Israel And Reaffirming Commitment To Israel’s Right To Self-Defense
* The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act Extension of 2001
* A Senate Resolution in 2001 Expressing Solidarity With Israel In Common Struggle Against Terrorism
* The China Nonproliferation Act he authored, which imposed sanctions on proliferators of WMD.
* The Iran Nonproliferation Act Of 2000
* A Senate Resolution in 1999 Expressing Opposition To Unilateral Declaration Of Palestinian State
* The Iran Missile Proliferation Sanctions Act Of 1998
* The Jerusalem Embassy Act Of 1995
“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.”
Isn’t it spelled “fellatious”?
“I guess I’m not getting through clearly. We should/must save whatever lives we can and make whatever progress to keep marriage, marriage. Incrementalism is important — but it is no excuse to oppose an ultimate, thorough Human Life Amendment and Marriage Amendment, as Thompson does.
“Leave it to the states” is the Steven A. Douglas approach.”
Didn’t Thompson get the endorsement of National Right to Life?
Yeah - peculiar, isn't it? Maybe they have an affinity, since they're lobbyists.
Thank you for the information. It’s sounds like Fred is our man. May God let us, by His grace, have a President who will lead this country righteously.
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