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To: powderfan

“Your post cracked me up: that Thompson is not a RINO compared to any of those on your list.”

One mistake does not a RINO make. And he is not a candidate now or likely to become one so it is moot. As far as Thompson being a RINO, Rush Limbaugh and Jim Robinson both supported him in 2008 with glowing comments. I haven’t got time to list the reasons, but I will submit to you that Rush and JR (and you can add Mark Levin, who was “leaning” to Thompson before he withdrew)NEVER support Rinos.

“If you’re calling Jindal a RINO all I can say is WOW.”

All I can say is WOW. Do you know that he made a deal with legislators to triple their pay in return for getting his toothless ethics reforms through? He had to back down when the deal became public, but was late to do so. He is a very big spender in Louisiana and has spent much of his time outside the state fundraising for a Presidential run while collecting a paycheck from the citizens of Louisiana. Finally, when the state’s GOP senator, David Vitter, got in trouble about an indiscretion seven years before, Jindal came out and condemned him, which I found to be a political calculation and quite ungratious in light of the fact that Vitter had cleared the field of candidates for Jindal to run for Vitter’s old seat in Congress (which he vacated in 2004 on election to the Senate) move from Baton Rouge, where he had lived his entire life (except for college and a Washington job) to suburban New Orleans in 2005 (even though several of the candidates had announced for the job including the current congressman, Steve Scalise), which Jindal used as a springboard for his successful run for the Governor’s mansion in 2007, also with Vitter’s support.

In my book, a governor who cuts a back room deal to triple legislator’s pay, and has be be forced away from it, travels the country fundraising for a Presidential run while collecting a state check, is a big spender, and tries to score political points at the expense of someone who has done much to help him, is a RINO, and and a particularly disloyal one.

I used to have high hopes for Jindal. No more.


45 posted on 02/27/2010 11:43:30 AM PST by Brices Crossroads (Politico and)
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To: Brices Crossroads

Nice summation on Jindal He’s definitely a ‘Big R’ Republican. Nice guy though.


50 posted on 02/27/2010 11:50:50 AM PST by Al B.
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To: Brices Crossroads

Plus, he has suggested he breaks ranks with Republicans over health care.


59 posted on 02/27/2010 12:15:19 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Brices Crossroads; Reagan Man

1. Not a newbie, been on here since 2005. Couldn’t remember my password when my computer crashed.
2. Reagan Man, I was one of the ones who voted in that poll, and guess who I voted for... Thompson
3. I didn’t call Thompson a RINO. My point was that he has taken positions to the left of all of those so-called “RINOs” on that list.
4. Brices Crossroads, the only person I remember Rush endorsing was Romney...as well as Hannity, Coulter, el al.

Some of his votes:
-Voted NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds in 1995
-Voted YES on banning “soft money” contributions and restricting issue ads. (Mar 2002)
-Voted YES on banning campaign donations from unions & corporations. (Apr 2001)
-Voted YES on funding for National Endowment for the Arts. (Aug 1999)
-Voted YES on favoring 1997 McCain-Feingold overhaul of campaign finance. (Oct 1997)
-Voted YES on funding GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Apr 2001)

My point is that if you consider Jindal, Romney, etc to be RINOs then you have to consider Thompson a RINO. Just because he is an actor doesn’t make him Reagan


65 posted on 02/27/2010 1:15:22 PM PST by powderfan (Santorum for VP)
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