Melanie Morgan Endorses "Complete Conservative" Fred Thompson for President

What an opportunity you have for redemption, South Carolina! If the first shot of the Civil War was at Ft. Sumter (and for disunity rather than unity), what better symbolism than having the first shot of the ‘Uncivil’ War for uniting conservatism occur there as well! Go Fred!

What! But, after the last debate where Fred cleaned house, all the pundits said it was great, but a case of too little too late.

Surely there is no way Fred has chance! I mean, what, there are only like 46 states left yet to hold caucuses. WAY too late for Fred.

I would love to see her as Press Secretary in any GOP administration. She rocks.

Knowing history here helps. SC was fighting for UNITY of the South, federalism and Constitutional principles as envisioned by the founding fathers. Ignorant statements like yours don’t help.

WOW!!! What a Fred Bomb! Could have come a few days earlier, but we'll take it. This could have flipped more wavering McCain Vets if it would have come earlier.

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I’m not quite sure who she is but I love the way she thinks! This is a great article.

obviously far more intelligent than the average exercise equipment salesman.

http://ksfo.com/article.asp?id=53139

She’s on the air right now.

http://ksfo.com/article.asp?id=53139

Knowing history here helps. SC was fighting for UNITY of the South, federalism and Constitutional principles as envisioned by the founding fathers.

Amen brother.

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One of the most outspoken and outdone Troops Support organizations in the US. Period.

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What a wonderfully written piece and a strong case for our strongest candidate.

Thanks Melanie.

OK...I remember now! Her name was familiar but I couldn’t place it. She writes a great endorsement...I hope it peels some Vets away from McCain.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/matalin_race_debate_on_hannity.html

Matalin; Race Debate on “Hannity & Colmes”
Hannity & Colmes

01/17/08

SEAN HANNITY, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome to HANNITY AND COLMES. Glad you’re with us. I’m Sean Hannity. We get right to our top story tonight. We’re just two days away from the first in the south presidential primary in South Carolina. The candidates have been criss-crossing the state while volunteers make phone calls and television ads filling the airwaves. And as was the case eight years ago, it seems to be getting really nasty.

Joining us now is Fred Thompson’s campaign adviser, Mary Matalin. Mary, always good to see you.

MARY MATALIN, THOMPSON CAMPAIGN ADVISER: Hey Sean.

HANNITY: By the way, I have another debate with James coming up, Tim Russert moderating. It should be a lot of fun. I need your tips because he’s got great jokes.

COLMES: Jams will win.

HANNITY: Let me first start with Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney and John McCain on the issue — believe it or not, it’s back again in South Carolina, and that is the Confederate Flag. What is Fred Thompson’s position?

MATALIN: Well, can I just back up for a moment. On all of these issues, what Fred has been doing is running an honorable campaign with lots of integrity. And I think the story of the day more than the flag and more than these state issues is the issue of campaigns that aren’t being run so honorably, notably and specifically the Huckabee campaign, which has run millions across these early states of push polls distorting everyone’s record, not just Fred’s.

And this is not what this campaign is about. This is conservatism at the crossroads. The country is at the crossroads. It’s a very unmanly thing to do. It’s a very morally suspect thing to do. And Huckabee should just stop it right now. And before we talk about any issues, we should agree that we’re going to be talking about those issues that are important, critical to this country for the next four years.

HANNITY: You’ve got your case in point out there. Let me ask you again — I want to go back because this has now become, as it does, it seems, every four years, a pretty explosive issue in South Carolina. Mike Huckabee is saying today, and he’s talking specifically about Senator McCain and Mitt Romney — he goes you don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag. He said, in fact, if someone came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell them what to do with the flag pole. That’s what we’d do.

Is Senator Thompson going to weigh in on this or not?

MATALIN: You know, I honestly don’t know. There are people that would come on here without having any facts and render an opinion. In general, the Thompson philosophy is a state’s rights one. And I don’t know that this rises to the level of a national federal issue.

But I will go back to Huckabee. He ought to let people come and look in his state because what he’s done in Arkansas is distinctly different. His record on immigration, taxes, and spending is distinctly different than what he’s saying in South Carolina. Of course he wants to change the subject and talk about poll sitting. I don’t even know what that means.

HANNITY: Fred in the South Carolina debate — we were there and I asked him about it the other night, and he started arguing with me. It was kind of funny. But more importantly he went after Mike Huckabee, Governor Huckabee, and basically called him a Democrat in the debate. And I said OK, Senator McCain is often at odds with conservatives, McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, taxes, the Gang of 14. I know he sat next to him in the Senate for a long time. Why does he seem only willing to attack or go after or challenge Mike Huckabee but not Senator McCain? Senator McCain is leading there?

MATALIN: No, of course, he’s been challenging — I wouldn’t call it attacking. He’s been challenging each of these candidates on their issues. And specifically relative to McCain, he said he disagreed with his immigration issue. Let me say this, Fred Thompson would not have gotten in the race if John McCain was scratching the conservative itch. You listed all the things that John has not been conservative on. I would add to that, it was a tipping point for a lot of conservatives, he’s now jumped on the pseudo-religious global warming bandwagon. That’s just madness.

But they are friends, and if they thought John would have been able to carry the banner that could unite the party to beat the liberals in the fall, he wouldn’t have jumped in the first place.

COLMES: No one is beating liberals in the fall. Hi, Mary, how are you?

MATALIN: Hey, Alan.

COLMES: Group calling itself Vietnam Veterans Against McCain has put out a leaflet accusing him of collaborating with the enemy during the years he was a POW. Our own Carl Cameron is reporting that when McCain aggressively denounced it as a smear, aides to Fred Thompson called him a whiner looking for sympathy as a victim. Is that your view, and do you know of anybody in your campaign who said that about John McCain?

MATALIN: No, you know, that’s despicable. John McCain is a hero, a real hero, a big hero, a moving hero. That’s a despicable tactic, and it’s one that Fred Thompson never — nothing like that has ever come out of anybody’s mouth in our campaign. We all love John McCain. We just don’t think he’s the kind of conservative that can unite the party.

No, he’s not a whiner. He’s not a whiner. He’s a hero.

COLMES: Fred Thompson was on HANNITY AND COLMES a couple of years ago. In fact, I think it was back in 2004, and he said that getting illegal trespassers out of the country is, quote, not going to happen. The solution is to work out a deal where they can have some aspirations for citizenship, but that we shouldn’t make it easy so it’s not unfair to other aliens working to get in. That sounds like a pro-amnesty position, very close to the position John McCain has.

MATALIN: Goodness gracious, Alan. What Fred has put out has been the only practical solution on immigration. It’s a solution by attrition. We’re not going to deport 12 million people, but we have to rigorously enforce what’s on the books, and we have to cease with these magnet problems, the likes that Huckabee ran in his state. The state was a virtual magnet for illegal immigrants, another flip-flop on Huckabee’s part. And everyone’s moved to the Thompson position of securing the borders first and enforcing the law secondly.

COLMES: You’re going after Huckabee here. Look, also, one other item I want to bring up, which is the Bush economy, the Bush/Cheney recession, which seems to be happening. Ben Bernanke is basically saying to Chuck Schumer he believes that’s exactly what’s going on, and you’ve got Hillary Clinton proposing a 70 billion dollar economic stimulus package that involves money for people, poor, and middle class, to help pay their energy bills and providing money, direct tax rebates to working and middle class families.

What is Fred Thompson’s plan to deal with what some perceive as a coming recession, if it’s not here already?

MATALIN: Yes, well, even Nancy Pelosi is refusing to use the R word. There’s certain agreement that there will be a slowdown. To call it recession would accelerate that process. It’s not a good thing to be saying. What Fred has said today was this is not the time for quick sound bites and snap political nonsense. We need sound minds and a long-term strategy on this. But I love to hear Democrats talking about tax cuts, Alan. They’re obviously not listening to you.

COLMES: For the middle class, not for the wealthy, Mary, for people making under six figures.

HANNITY: How about everybody? .

COLMES: Rich already go theirs with Bush. That doesn’t seem to be helping the economy very much.

(CROSS TALK)

HANNITY: It is, Alan. The economy is phenomenal. Where have you been living?

COLMES: Let’s you and I go at it for the next 45 minutes.

MATALIN: Thanks for having me, guys.

HANNITY: Thank you, Mary.

PRAISE GOD!!! Last night on “The O’Reilly Factor” she would not come right out with and outright endorsement of Fred.

Problem is: How many folks in SC will read this article in “WorldNetDaily” before voting tomorrow?

O.K. Freepers, e-mail this article to every person you know in SC.

What an opportunity you have for redemption, South Carolina!

You mean that us saving everyone from McCain in 2000 wasn't enough?

there are only like 46 states left yet to hold caucuses

Uh.....I think you meant......Primaries....

Doing my part to also help get it out to South Carolina.