Posted on 08/20/2007 2:37:30 PM PDT by hardback
“Nice guy, good on Tv, but I fear He’s Bob Dole”
... or George Bush (Sr. or Jr.), or Gerald Ford, or any other moderate, Rockefeller, or compassionate-conservative “Republican”. That is a very reasonable concern.
How many of the afore-mentioned, were also CFR members.
Not the "James Bond" Sean Connery, but a 65 year old Sean Connery (Bald and all!). And no, I'm not comparing dialects either.
I wonder how Fred looks in a kilt! LOL :0)
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Damning with faint praise, TA?
Why I feel that Fred Thompson is the only one in the bunch that can revive that old-time religion of genuine Reagan-like conservatism. Its his remarkable ability to communicate, honestly and openly and with such flair.
A major irritation of the Republican base has been Bushs trouble articulating. Given a prepared speech he can deliver it with the best of them, but slap a microphone in front of him like at a press conference and we Republicans cringe. His sloppy speaking style only serves to bolster the perception of his incompetence. That is why the most important but least discussed asset we are looking for in a candidate is the ability to communicate, and Fred Thompson seems to be what we the Republicans are yearning for.
We need to not just get a victory in 2008, but we need to look beyond Bush and focus on the long term vision of the Conservative movement. Each of the candidates running have good attributes, and maybe just maybe a few of them have what it takes to beat Hillary, but where will they take the party?
Is this just about beating Hillary? Yea, we get some sweet revenge, but we could also get four years of more of the same politics as usual in D.C. . Or is this about a rediscovery of our values and our common sense as a Nation, and the resurgence of national pride? We need the President to be the Nations President once again.
Its been written not long after the mess in Florida with the hanging chads, that to half the Nation, President Bush was their President, but to the other half he was not President at all. We can as Americans no longer afford to have that sort of a divide between our people.
Ronald Reagan said he left the entertainment world for politics because he wanted to protect something precious. Well the office of President is something precious and the respect for it should be preserved. The President once again needs to be Our President, weather you voted for him or not. Out of all the potential presidential candidates, Fred Thompson is the one that can unite us and move us forward to better things.
In President Reagans Farewell Address he said, I wasn’t a great communicator, but I communicated great things. Fred Thompson is a communicator of great things and I am honored to be behind him.
All one need look at is the “progress” made in the country in the last five or six decades, most notably. Take a look at the social fabric, the complete indoctrinational, non-intellectual morass that our education system has become, the way in which our military (the individual soldiers have never been more competent or professional, just leadership both military and civilian, seems to be a disgrace)) wins wars, the courts, the media, the list is endless.
When we have not had a comlete dolt (Carter) or a degenerate adolescent (guess who) in office, we have had an acceptable Republican. What have conservatives gained? Even during the terms of Reagan, we took some pretty big hits, S. D. O’Connor, the amnesty that has led to our current immigration problem, and cut-and-run when the hundreds of Marines were killed in Lebanon, are examples. I consider both of the Bushes to be able to stand on their own “de”merits.
Conservatism and with it, commonsense (which is what conservatism basically is), is taking a severe beating. A “good-enough”, compromise (check definition) candidate is not going to stop the erosion and eventual destruction of the American culture.
We have to stop the d@#* bleeding now.
Fred’s drifting in and out of acting does not bother me nearly as bad as history as a lobbyist (it is not pretty) and a CFR member.
Romney is almost slicker than Willy. And while he may be a gifted businessman, how difficult is it to get a start, when your dad is a past-Governor/Presidential candidate and your mom a Senator. It is quite amazing, the relationship between politicians and big-money.
Even with that, these two are preferrable to Rudy and McCain and infinitely better thanany of Dem candidates.
The word lobbyist seems to be missing from your list. Also a lot of that list involves being appointed to insider jobs by, of course, insiders. CFR membership is not looked upon as a plus, by very many conservatives.
IMHO, Hunter could be better than Reagan.
I call them as I see them. And that’s how I see it. : )
Unless I’m losing my mind, I distinctly heard Fred Thompson say he would never apologize for America. Indeed, he went on to mention the many, many Americans who died to free other countries. I also like Duncan Hunter, but if he walked in my door right now I wouldn’t know who he was.
Fair enough. :)
Where's the proof? That's about as fair as your other assessments of Mitt. Clinton had a low draft number and used ROTC to stay out of the military, deferring his military service and later drawing a higher draft nemuber. Mitt drew a high draft number and was never drafted, end of story.
Mitt is for the AWB ban as were both Bushes, and many other Republicans. He is hardly any more anti-gun than most of his fellow Republican politicians. You may not agree with them or him, but stop painting him as if his stance on the gun issues is uncommon for Republicans. It isn't. It won't surprise me at all if we learn Thompson is also for the AWB ban.
Perhaps you better prefer the anti-gun positions of the Democrats which is what you shall have if you continue to spew distortions about viable Republican presidential candidates like Mitt.
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