Posted on 12/22/2007 11:13:37 AM PST by RDTF
Senator Fred Thompson had this video produced to thank our troops for their courage and sacrifice, and to let them know they are not forgotten as they are away from their loved ones during the Christmas holiday.
Please forward the link to everyone in your address books.
And if you can, while you are at Fred’s site for the video, leave him a Christmas present.
Just realized I only pinged half the list.
Just......perfect. Thanks for posting it.
The video is a MUST SEE. Get a kleenex. Fred did not put himself in it at all: it’s all about the troops. Wish all the Iowa voters could see it.
I hope your right, my gut tells me people are swinging Fred's way. Had a friend all the way across the country email me and we both came to the same conclusion last week, it is Fred.
I posted this on another "Fred-Tread" yesterday:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942906/posts?page=141#141
Here is a copy of what I said:
It is funny, Rush has been tormenting the libs especially after the heat he took on what he said about Hillary that this is his sandbox so to speak, you only play in it. In a sense they have been feeding us Huck, Rudy, McCain and Romney. It would be just like him to show them that yes it is his sand box and thwart their moves to be king maker by being one himself ! Oh the irony of that is just to delicious! It is Rush saying wake up America you half time listeners, it is time to get back to the party of Reagan and I am not carrying your water. Fred will carry his own....
I think it is time to stop the nonsense, I hope Rush goes for it and backs Fred and sets them all straight.
Do it Rush and drive them nuts!
Absolutely perfect!
The thing we would all want to say.
“I hope Rush goes for it and backs Fred and sets them all straight.”
That’s exactly what I’ve been hoping. But Rush said something else yesterday that made me think. He made a particular point regarding his show and the relationship with his audience, and I later realized that what he said could also apply to the Fred Thompson phenomenon.
Rush said that the drivebys couldn’t take him out or destroy his show or his ratings in any way because they had nothing to do with building it. What built it was the development of the connection between Rush and his audience.
In the same way Fred Thompson is campaigning without the mainstream media, or in spite of them, or whatever. Maybe Thompson’s strategy of building his audience the old fashioned way on a grassroots level will give him the power base to withstand future attempts by the media to take him down, due to the fact that they had nothing to do with building him up.
Maybe Rush’s appearance of neutrality regarding Thompson is just his way of giving Thompson room to build a solid base of support using the old fashioned, tried and true methods. Who knows. But it seems like a good way to win. It would be like a double irony because the media would be thwarting themselves.
Something about the way Rush says “Don’t doubt me,” that catches my attention.
Very nicely done! Land of the Free because of the Brave!
FRED THOMPSON - NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT (I’ll protect the American people and American values, whatever it takes to stop the Islamic-Fascists including water-boarding) - 2ND AMENDMENT ADVOCATE (arming the People to disarm criminals) – INCREASE THE MILITARY’S STRENGTH AND SIZE (giving those brave men and women a Commander in Chief to be proud of) - SECURE AND SEAL THE BORDERS (don’t give sanctuary anywhere to illegal’s, don’t employ illegal’s, don’t rent to illegal’s, don’t extend credit to illegal’s, don’t give illegal’s rights they don’t deserve, report all crimes committed by illegal’s and deport those illegal’s who have already committed crimes against America) - LAW AND ORDER (enforcement first and foremost with laws currently on the books) – DENY FEDERAL DOLLARS TO SANCTUARY CITIES (enough is enough) – CONSERVATIVE JUSTICES FOR SUPREMES (those who will interpret the law, not create rights that do not exist) – PRO-LIFE ADVOCATE (nominate superior Constitutional Justices to overturn Roe vs Wade) - SOCIAL SECURITY REFORMER (reform a broken program that can’t sustain itself and will bankrupt future generations, with the added benefit of private savings accounts) - DEFEAT ANY DEMOCRAT AND RINO (any fool DemocRATS put up) – TAX SIMPLIFICATION (variety of choice for the tax payer) - WON’T PUT UP WITH CRAP FROM THE MSM (including stupid questions by moderators and pundits) - “WE THE PEOPLE” CANDIDATE (We the People asked him to run and he stepped up) - PING!
This one, as always, is for the troops.
Merry Christmas to the troops!
Fred Thompson has more class in his little pinky than the rest of the candidates, both Republican and Democrat. His video is superb! God Bless Fred and God Bless our troops.
Fred Thompson has more class in his little pinky than the rest of the candidates, both Republican and Democrat. His video is superb! God Bless Fred and God Bless our troops.
Compare candidates.
This is Fred Thompson.
God Bless him in his effort and our priceless troops and their families.
I like Fred, too. Loved his “we don’t wear hats...” video!
A CHRISTMAS GUARDIAN
The embers glowed softly and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, an angel at rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white
transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling of all the lights on the tree
Completed the magic that Christmas Eve.
My eyelids grew heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love, I fell asleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
I slumbered....perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know,
Then I heard footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was there.
Standing out in the cold in the dark of the night,
a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled there in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, my wife, and our child.
“What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on this cold Christmas Eve!
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.
To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light.
Then he sighed and he said “It’s really all right,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”
“It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
“My Gramps died at ‘Pearl on a day in December,
Then he sighed, “That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘Nam’,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
“I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures; he’s sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
“I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
“I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.”
“So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”
“But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?
“It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son.
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
“Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
“To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
“Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”
I gotta hand it to the Big Guy. Great video message.
Good video for the troops.
gpapa
Die-hard Packer fan since birth
I’m impressed that you’re impressed.
GO PANTHERS! (Just for tonight, of course)
Awesome. Thanks for the link.
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