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
“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.”
Like I said, everyone can cherry pick a vote that he disagrees with. Fred Thompson is a constitutionalist. His wrongheaded votes on CFR, which he acknowledged, were not motivated by hostility to the First Amendment but by a genuine nausea about the corruption in Congress. Like I said, this site is anti-RINO central and had Fred been a RINO he would not have drawn the level of support he did nor would JR have supported him.
“Brices Crossroads, the only person I remember Rush endorsing was Romney...as well as Hannity, Coulter, el al.”
Rush endorsed Romney, as did Mark Levin, AFTER Thompson dropped out in a last ditch effort to stop McCain. After one of the debates, Rush specifically said that Thompson was the clearest articulator of Reaganite,constitutionalist principles in the field, and he played several clips of Fred to show it. If you would like to listen to how Rush appraised the other candidates as “moderates” and Fred Thompson as the only one of the four top tier candidates(Huckabee, Romney and McCain being the others) as a conservative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5WEMPKam0
Sorry, powderfan, my own investigation and observation of FT tells me he is no RINO. But if I was clueless or had some doubt, I would take the work of Jim Robinson and Rush Limbaugh over yours. Without a second thought.