Posted on 11/06/2007 9:56:25 AM PST by jaybeegee
Republican Fred Thompson will begin airing TV ads in Iowa this week, casting himself as a consistent conservative and seeking to emerge as the top challenger to Mitt Romney who leads in state polls.
The ads, which will start airing Wednesday and will also be telecast nationally on Fox News Channel, are biographical spots designed to set the stage for the next eight weeks of campaigning. In them, Thompson appeals to the conservative sentiments that define many Iowa caucus goers.
"I grew up in a little hometown just like this," he says, speaking inside a small-town coffee shop. "Started the first Young Republican club in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee."
In one ad, lasting 60 seconds, he offers a broad view of his record and vision.
"In eight years in the United States Senate, I fought for tax cuts and for conservative judges," he says. "And I'm proud to have had a 100 percent pro-life voting record. Common sense conservative principles. Free people. Free markets and a government that doesn't tax and regulate us to death, but defends us and protects our borders."
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That would be great if Fred took Iowa !
I’m curious to see how far the MSM is going to push the “ Huckster ascension “ in Iowa ? That has to be worrying the Mitt camp as well .
Mitt has been a member of the NRA all of his conservative political life!
Get your facts straight!
That's the height of political discourse.
Fred’s a real man. Unlike like Rudy and Mitt who will do and say anything, change their image, to become president. Fred’s genuine.
Wow. Great ads!
Where can I get me one of them there huntin' licenses? --John F'n Kerry
Given Fred’s other political runs, it is not out of the realm of possibility that he could pull this off. He does best with the voters, not the pundits and so called experts..
That’s a reasonable expectation, spiff; but post five (your post) resembles the behaviour you seem to dislike.
And what do Ii do after that...
Why should I vote for a candidate whose supporters make puerile comments like that?
I'm sure the political junkies will say it's short on substance, but this is just a warm-up message to introduce himself to the voters. I imagine later ads will be more focused on specific issues.
Certainly THIS thread is not turning out the way he might have liked.
Agreed. Fred’s the real thing.
You sound just like the crazy liberal attack dogs.
Never realized you needed so much the attention.
It failed.
Excellent.
At the end it says: Fred Thompson, President.
Not for,...just President. I like how that sounds.
Did you see the game last night? Roethlisberger was great.
IMHO, the MSM does not understand the depth of support for Fred. We view him as a reliable conservative, and understand that federalism can lead to outcomes that we may not like, in different states. This is a discussion that our country needs to have, and hasn't, for many years: what powers need to be returned to state and local governments, as federal authority has become too far reaching.
There is no question that the Beltway Establishment, Democrats and RINOs alike, want DC to be the political center of the universe. Unless I completely misread American history, the Founding Fathers never intended that, just as they never dreamed of the evolution of the permanent political class that now resides in Congress and the Senate.
I like the fact that Fred didn't join the race as early as the others, just as I've grown weary of the reportage on the "horse race" instead of the issues of the day. I also like the fact that Fred is running his own race, in his own time. It indicates that FDT is "comfortable in his own skin", a quality I don't see in the other candidates.
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