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Fred Thompson Is the Real Deal
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| January 15, 2008
| Philip V. Brennan
Posted on 01/15/2008 1:39:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rush Limbaugh complains that what is lacking in the GOP field are "the right people to express our conservative ideas and principles." The dirty little secret is Rush doesn't support Conservatives running against Rinos. Just take a look at Tom McClintock
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posted on
01/15/2008 2:16:53 PM PST
by
Bommer
("He that controls the spice controls the universe!" (unfortunately that spice is Nutmeg!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/15/2008 2:18:37 PM PST
by
Ditto
(Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/15/2008 2:23:35 PM PST
by
cleveland gop
(I gotta feeling the PACKERS are going to the SUPER BOWL!!! I'm with FRED! Are you?)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
You are too kind. You are correct on the mistype - I did some editing there and left a ‘my’ in the wrong place. Thanks again for your feedback.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
While I am a FredHead (just mailed in my CA absentee for him) and loved! the 17-minute “mini-manifesto” too,
it’s not really fair to compare it to Reagan’s tour de force in 1964. If Reagan’s speech was a 10, Thompson’s was about an 8. Thompson is great, but he’s not a “get up on your feet and cheer” sort of speaker. He’s one with gravity, the guy whom you watch, then you nod your head with conviction and think to yourself, “Finally someone’s SAID it.”
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01/15/2008 2:42:44 PM PST
by
pogo101
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do you know if this speech, or, at least, the pertinent portions of it, has been transribed into print?
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posted on
01/15/2008 2:45:26 PM PST
by
LucyJo
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hear. Hear... Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
01/15/2008 2:55:38 PM PST
by
LibertyRocks
(Fred Thompson in '08)
To: LucyJo; 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/15/2008 2:58:15 PM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." —Thomas Jefferson)
To: Bommer
I don't recall Rush ever taking sides in California against McClintock. He has always been one who has argued with stay at home cause I'm mad Republicans, explaining that the alternative is worse. Thus, he tried to keep people from supporting Clinton or Perot in 1992, even though they were mad at Bush and even though Bush was not his favorite, and he tried to keep people from punishing the Pubbies by not voting in 1996. But he has never been faced with a situation as frustrating as this one, with this cast of characters claiming the GOP mantle as though Ronald Reagan and what he PROVED had never happened. He is at the brink of getting personally involved to direct the party from the abyss.
Rush is the only one we have left, the only Buckley, Goldwater, Reagan who serves as the intellectual stalwart articulating and promulgating the conservative philosophy. He is one of the last lights still shining. He deserves our respect and admiration. Without him out there every day, fighting back against the propaganda, the conservative movement would gradually whither away. A politician with similar vision is needed to translate the ideas into action, as Reagan did. The past 16 years can be viewed as an effort by Democrats and liberal Republicans to undo Reagan's legacy, and it has taken this long to do it, but now their efforts have paid off. The Dems feel confident enough to demand purely socialist programs, and the Pubbies all say "me too". All except Hunter and Thompson. Hunter is the longest of long shots, but Thompson is still out there and he is an honest conservative, if not as conservative as we would like. Much depends on getting behind him and getting him nominated. Failing that, and the Reagan era is truly dead.
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01/15/2008 3:07:52 PM PST
by
Defiant
(Hillary needs Obama in the race to make it seem she has experience by comparison.)
To: Albion Wilde
Thank you very much,AW, and shame on me for not checking!
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posted on
01/15/2008 4:03:52 PM PST
by
LucyJo
To: pissant
I can always use a good laugh from you, the FR court jester.
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posted on
01/15/2008 6:03:05 PM PST
by
Pistolshot
(Those with a lively sense of curiosity learn something new every day of their lives.)
To: Pistolshot
Yes, it is darn right knee slapping to see folks support the best man for the POTUS
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posted on
01/15/2008 6:04:22 PM PST
by
pissant
(Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
To: pissant
Thanks. I KNEW you’d come around to Fred sooner or later.
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posted on
01/15/2008 6:15:13 PM PST
by
Pistolshot
(Those with a lively sense of curiosity learn something new every day of their lives.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Go Fred! We know you can do it!
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posted on
01/15/2008 6:21:17 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
GO FRED!
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posted on
01/15/2008 6:42:45 PM PST
by
Reagan Man
(FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do you think this will get noticed by Rush tomorrow ?
HEY SNERDLY ? come on now, wake RUSH up !!
SNERDLY ? Rush needs to have a 4 day Marathon for Fred !!
We know Rush won't directly endorse Fred, but, Rush can extol what most conservatives want in a conservative and point out the positives every day on your show until Saturday.
Wake up Rush !! do a Fredathon on your show ... Fred needs the support... and make it a point to talk to your evangelical listeners.
To: Mister Politics
Fred needs to make the same kind of video for SC as he did for Iowa ... you hear that THOMPSON campaign ?
To: Old Teufel Hunden
Both of you can co-write for Fred.... call them, call Fred’s campaign.
To: Pistolshot
He’ll get inline when Hunter endorses Fred.
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