“I don’t recall hearing this message then...”
You weren’t listening.
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.
Too many weren't listening. Fred is the proof that many really did not know what message they wanted to hear. The conservative message obviously was not it.
So many on this board were interested in who they DID NOT WANT and were working "towards" that goal of "not". Working toward "not" will never get anything good. We are still seeing that, and our side may lose this race because of it.