Afraid of the truth?
This is HISTORICAL FACT:
The leader of the TN Anti-Religious Right forces at the time was Michael McCloskey.
During the same time, Fred Thompson was making noises of running for the US Senate. McCloskey was one of the ones who was influential in recruiting him to run. McCloskey saw him as a Celebrity counter-force to the Religious Right/Pro-Lifers that could win the GOP Nomination.
And the Religious Right, predictably came after Thompson. It was a bitterly fought primary. Thompson’s opponent was Religious Rightist John Bakkes. In the end, Thompson’s celebrity status carried him through, and he won with 62% to Bakkes’s 37%. Many credited McCloskey and his “Young Republican brigades” with helping Thompson’s win.
Not afraid of the truth. Just tired of the FUD from the rudy bots. The ones who have no standing trying to cry “he’s pro choice” considering their 100% NARAL rated candidate.
The truth:
- Fred Thompson was endorsed by a pro life group when he ran in 1994
- Fred Thompson has a solid pro life voting record in the senate
- Fred Thompson has a zero rating from NARAL
- Fred Thompson has said Roe V wade was bad law.
National Right to Life Committee on Fred Thompson:
“This morning, I cited reports being promoted by the pro-Romney blog Evangelicals for Mitt suggesting that Fred Thompson ran his two campaigns for Senate in Tennessee as a pro-choicer. Not so, National Right to Life executive co-director Darla St. Martin just told me.
St. Martin said that she went down to Tennessee in 1994 to speak with Thompson personally when he first ran for Senate, and that she determined he was against abortion.
‘I interviewed him and on all of the questions I asked him, he opposed abortion,’ St. Martin said. She told me that the group went on to support him in that election, and his record reinforced for her that their determination was correct.
‘He has a consistent voting record that is pro-life,’ she said.
On the NRLC website, they archive their congressional ratings back to 1997, so they include six of his eight years in the Senate. Thompson took the pro-life position on every vote he cast on the abortion issue…”
Source: American Spectator
“NARAL also rated nine other Republicans… Based on their abortion rights stance, the following Republicans received a grade of ‘F’: …Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee…”
At what time? Why have you redacted this important fact?
Fred Thompson is pro-life. He has ALWAYS VOTED pro-life.
Here are the real FACTS. Here are the FACTS that MATTER:
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Fred Thompson’s Vote/Match questionaire responses:
STRONGLY OPPOSES topic 1: “Abortion is a woman’s right”
http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson_SenateMatch.htm
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Fred Thompson’s Senate VOTING RECORD on Life issues:
Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Fred_Thompson.htm#Abortion
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Pro-choice National Right to Life Cmte. on Fred Thompson:
“This morning, I cited reports being promoted by the pro-Romney blog Evangelicals for Mitt suggesting that Fred Thompson ran his two campaigns for Senate in Tennessee as a pro-choicer. Not so, National Right to Life executive co-director Darla St. Martin just told me.
St. Martin said that she went down to Tennessee in 1994 to speak with Thompson personally when he first ran for Senate, and that she determined he was against abortion.
‘I interviewed him and on all of the questions I asked him, he opposed abortion,’ St. Martin said. She told me that the group went on to support him in that election, and his record reinforced for her that their determination was correct.
‘He has a consistent voting record that is pro-life,’ she said.
On the NRLC website, they archive their congressional ratings back to 1997, so they include six of his eight years in the Senate. Thompson took the pro-life position on every vote he cast on the abortion issue...”
http://www.spectator.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=6017
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Pro-Abortion group NARAL graded Fred with an “F”:
“NARAL also rated nine other Republicans... Based on their abortion rights stance, the following Republicans received a grade of ‘F’: ...Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee...”
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Try=No&Page=\Politics\archive\200007\POL20000714a.html
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National Right To Life Considered Fred to be PRO-LIFE:
“With 54% of the vote, pro-life former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander (R) won the seat of retiring PRO-LIFE Senator Fred Thompson.”
http://www.nrlc.org/news/2002/NRL11/senate.html
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Pro-Abortion group Planned Parenthood found nothing to like about Fred Thompson, his postition on Life issues and his PRO-LIFE voting record:
“Listed below is the name, state and party of each of these senators along with Planned Parenthood’s rating of them.
Name State Party PP rating...
Fred Thompson TN R 0% “
http://www.all.org/stopp/rr0111.htm
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Don’t be misled by Rudy McRomney and Ron Paul supporters and their near panic response to an impending Fred Thompson entry into the presidential race. The Rudy McRomney and Ron Paul backers’ campaigns of misinformation and distortion can’t change Senate voting records or interest group ratings from the past. These campaigns cannot change the fact that Mr. Guiliani supports taxpayer-funded aborion on demand. When you decide who to support for the GOP presidential nomination, remember who keeps pounding away at what Fred Thompson may have said or didn’t say a dozen yeasrs in the past. Remember who doesn’t want to dicuss Mr. Guiliani’s position and record on abortion, guns, immigration and the gay agenda today and every day.
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Fred Thompson is the real deal.
You’re debasing yourself even more than you did during the Schwarzenegger campaign. I didn’t think that was possible.
This line of attack is particularly galling... since everyone here knows that if Thompson was really pro-abortion, you’d be behind him 100%.
And then, once elected, Fred Thompson went on to achieve a good, conservative record in the Senate. Not the most conservative record, but pretty darned good. So, I don’t know what your point is with posting this crap.