Posted on 06/08/2008 10:13:10 AM PDT by kellynla
Too bad Fred did not really want to be President. He could have done a good job for America and Constitutional conservatism.
Can you do a FRed ping, and could you please send me a copy of the list?
My computer crashed, and the program I was using wouldn’t restore. *Sigh*
Thanks for posting the entire article Kelly.
TownHall takes forever to load on a 56K dialup line.
And, a MASSIVE Fred BUMP!!
He is STILL da man.
Blinding sanity in a world gone mad.
My dad wasn’t a Fredhead, I had to talk Fred up to him. But now, every few weeks, he says “I read such and such from Fred.
I really think we lost the best man.”
Wahhhhh!!!
It’s sad that there are so few good men like him nowadays.
I agree with everything he said but this...
"In stopping or reneging on free trade agreements with other countries, and making the word of the United States less reliable."
The Dems want these agreements to stay the same because it is hurting our America to have unfair trade agreements. The Republicans can not get in bed with the socialist agenda and leave the bedrock of America behind in the dust without severe consequences. We are an up lifting party, an American Dream party, not a screw you for trying, we have a bunch of new customers party...right?
It makes me sad we got the RHINO instead. I envision my grandchildren’s liberties flying out the window with McCain instead of being solidly protected as they would have been with Fred. I feel old and outvoted. The next generation is dropping the ball. The boomers apparently failed to teach them the value of the Republic that was handed to them.
So is this the same Fred that was on the campaign trail? I don’t recall hearing this message then...
You know, there is one thing about Hillary that I am really impressed with - she doesn’t back down to the media. When the media starts their drumbeat about what a Republican should do, the republicans cave within days. After the first few primaries, the media started their drumbeat about how it’s time for Hillary to step out of the race, AND SHE IGNORED THEM! While she has ‘suspended” her campaign, she’s technically STILL in the race. The media treated her like they treat Republicans, and she didn’t cave.
Where can we get some of that attitude in the Republican party? Maybe if our Republican “leaders” didn’t cave so quickly in the face of media disapproval, they’d have done what they said they would back in 2000 and would still be in the majority.
Hillary recognizes that the media doesn’t decide for the voters (at least not anymore), and that’s where she’s ahead of all Republicans.
* sniff *
I miss Fred.
Obama wouldn’t even know what hit him. Fred would just squash him like a litte bug—perhaps like a...gnat? ;^)
The text surrounding your quote is ...
The Democratic Party of today would abandon many of these principles and what they would not abandon they would distort. They have their own principles. They believe: In highlighting and dwelling on America’s imperfections. In isolationism. In policies that will give the world the impression that we are weak and divided. In declaring defeat even when we are winning. In stopping or reneging on free trade agreements with other countries, and making the word of the United States less reliable. In turning over the education of our children to the NEA. In continuing to expand our entitlement program spending even as these programs are headed bankruptcy.
would have been a fine acceptance speech....
“I don’t recall hearing this message then...”
You weren’t listening.
I miss Fred, too.
Fred, Y’all need to be knocking some sense into that friend of yours, John.
Fred needs to be right next to John’s ear.
Which was, I believe, exactly the problem. He was not reported in the media.
Fred is a pretty savvy guy. I believe he saw they way he was being ghosted in the media vs. the way Juan MxCain was being butt-smooched, fawned over, talked up, etc and figured out early in the race the media was going to bury him anyway so he stopped while he was ahead. If you hung out on Fred's website when he was running you would have seen a lot more of what he wrote above.
townhall.com has copies of his columns and statements here.
Warning: If you read Fred's commentary you probably will not be able to force yourself to vote for little Juan.
Yep!
Here is a list of his commentary on the issues just from April to August. But ya did not hear a scrap of this from the MSM did ya?
Tuesday Aug 21, 2007
A New York State of Mind Average Vote:
Saturday Aug 18, 2007
The Importance of Border Security Average Vote:
Tuesday Aug 14, 2007
Sanctuary Cities Average Vote:
Monday Aug 13, 2007
The Gas Tax Average Vote:
Tuesday Aug 7, 2007
The Economic Reality
Wednesday Aug 1, 2007
Judge Southwick Should Be Confirmed
Monday July 30, 2007
Eminent Domain
Friday July 27, 2007
On Federalism
Thursday July 26, 2007
Hazleton Immigration Decision
Friday June 29, 2007
A Better than Fair Day
Thursday June 28, 2007
The Darfur Genocide and Global Warming
Wednesday June 27, 2007
Common Sense on Capital Punishment
Tuesday June 26, 2007
Duplicating Disaster
Monday June 25, 2007
The Queen and Free Speech
Friday June 22, 2007
Tax Cuts for Kids
Thursday June 21, 2007
A Federalist Approach to Malpractice Abuse
Wednesday June 20, 2007
Good News about CAIR
Tuesday June 19, 2007
Union Dues and Secret Ballots
Tuesday June 19, 2007
Fred Thompson’s Remarks to Policy Exchange in London
Monday June 18, 2007
Reading Harry Reid
Friday June 15, 2007
Banning Dave Barry
Thursday June 14, 2007
The Castro/Chavez Axis
Wednesday June 13, 2007
A Prescription for the Nursing Shortage
Monday June 11, 2007
An Unsustainable Development
Thursday June 7, 2007
The New Hostages
Thursday June 7, 2007
Sentencing of Scooter Libby
Monday June 4, 2007
A Story of Vigilance
Friday June 1, 2007
Speaking Up for Freedom
Wednesday May 30, 2007
Living in Terror
Friday May 25, 2007
I Remember Average Vote:
Monday May 21, 2007
Tolerating Trafficking
Saturday May 19, 2007
The Immigration Bill: Comprehensive or Incomprehensible?
Thursday May 17, 2007
You’re Listening to Radio Free Congress
Thursday May 17, 2007
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past
Wednesday May 16, 2007
It’s a Small World After All
Wednesday May 16, 2007
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past
Tuesday May 15, 2007
Power of The President
Monday May 14, 2007
First Principles First Average Vote:
Friday May 11, 2007
Armed with the Truth Average Vote:
Thursday May 10, 2007
A Toast to Monsieur Sarkozy Average Vote:
Wednesday May 9, 2007
Tenent’s Time with Tim Average Vote:
Tuesday May 8, 2007
To the Shores of Tripoli Average Vote:
Saturday May 5, 2007
Excerpt: Prepared Remarks for Speech to Lincoln Club Annual Dinner
Friday May 4, 2007
Images of Oppression
Thursday May 3, 2007
The myth of Cuban health care
Monday Apr 30, 2007
Sticks and Stones
Saturday Apr 28, 2007
The NFL Backdraft
Thursday Apr 26, 2007
Rewriting History a Classroom at a
Tuesday Apr 24, 2007
Black and White Decisions
Monday Apr 23, 2007
Talking about Federalism
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Here is a typical example of one that clearly indicates the other candidates were like screechy little kids next to his grasp of events, the nation and world affairs...
Friday, June 01, 2007
Speaking Up for Freedom
By Fred Thompson
Well, he’s done it. Hugo Chavez was already systematically silencing criticism of his autocratic rule through threats and intimidation. Journalists have been threatened, beaten and even killed. Now he’s shut down the last opposition television networks in Venezuela and arrested nearly 200 protesters – mostly students. It’s a monumental tragedy and the Venezuelan people will pay the price for decades to come. Americans are also at risk as he funds anti-American candidates and radicals all over Latin America.
It’s equally tragic that the U.S. is in no position to provide the victims of this emerging dictator with the truth. There was a time, though, when Americans were on the front lines of pro-freedom movements all over the world. I’m talking about the “surrogate” broadcast network that included Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, often called “the Radios.”
When Ronald Reagan was elected, he greatly empowered the private, congressionally funded effort and handpicked the Radios’ top staff to bring freedom to the Soviet Union. Steve Forbes led the group.
Cynics still say that the USSR fell of its own weight, and that President Reagan’s efforts to bring it down were irrelevant, but Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev say differently. Both have said that, without the Radios, the USSR wouldn’t have fallen. The Radios were not some bland public relations effort, attracting audiences only with American pop music. They engaged the intellectual and influential populations behind the Iron Curtain with accurate news and smart programming about freedom and democracy. They had sources and networks within those countries that sometimes outperformed the CIA. When Soviet hardliners and reformers were facing off, and crowds and tanks were on the streets of Moscow and Bucharest, the radios were sending real-time information to the people, including the military, and reminding them of what was at stake.
Then we won the Cold War. The USSR collapsed in 1991, and America relaxed. Military downsizing began and the Radios began to reduce broadcast air time to target countries.
Now, of course, we know that the Islamofascists, many trained by the old Soviets, were making plans and plots of their own. Unfortunately, the plans to broadcast a pro-freedom message into Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Kurdistan and Ukraine were shelved or diluted. Reagan’s ideological audacity was replaced with a more “diplomatic” tone.
And see where it’s got us? Not only has Islamic totalitarianism spread without a true ideological challenge, many of the freed Soviet bloc countries are slipping back into repression. Russia is making the same old threats and even protecting Iran’s efforts to build nukes.
We’ll never know if Afghanistan might have rejected al Qaeda if America had actively engaged that country as we did those Eastern Europeans. We can’t know if Venezuelans would have chosen liberty over the false security of authoritarianism if they had been challenged to face the issues. I do know, though, that it’s time for a new generation of Americans to stand up for freedom — like others before us. And this time, we’ll have a whole new set of media technologies.
It was very disappointing to see him cave to the media pressure of their message (he's too old, he doesn't have any energy, he started to late yada yada yada).
Now, when will the Republican Party start listening to this message? Or is it really too late, and a new party will be necessary to get back to celebrating Freedom instead of Diversity?
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