“I didnt 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.
Again I didn’t call Thompson a RINO. I like Thopmson. It does sound like you’re cherry-picking on Jindal, Cantor, etc