Fred Thompson Is the Real Deal

NewsMax ^ | January 15, 2008 | Philip V. Brennan

[Bommer]

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

[Ditto]

Bump for later

[cleveland gop]

Second that!
GO FRED!

[Servant of the Cross]

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.

[pogo101]

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.”

[LucyJo]

Do you know if this speech, or, at least, the pertinent portions of it, has been transribed into print?

[LibertyRocks]

Hear. Hear... Thanks for posting this.

[Albion Wilde]

Here is Fred's Iowa speech, linked from his web site.

[Defiant]

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.

[LucyJo]

Thank you very much,AW, and shame on me for not checking!

[Pistolshot]

I can always use a good laugh from you, the FR court jester.

[pissant]

Yes, it is darn right knee slapping to see folks support the best man for the POTUS

[Pistolshot]

Thanks. I KNEW you’d come around to Fred sooner or later.

[Salvation]

Go Fred! We know you can do it!

[Reagan Man]

GO FRED!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

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.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Fred needs to make the same kind of video for SC as he did for Iowa ... you hear that THOMPSON campaign ?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Both of you can co-write for Fred.... call them, call Fred’s campaign.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

He’ll get inline when Hunter endorses Fred.