Why the R’s just don’t back McCain is beyond me. I truly believe that–barring a ‘Super Tuesday’ rout by Gulianni–he’ll be the nominee. In that case, all the trouble they’ve been giving him over his Goldwater conservative positions will be terribly damaging to him in the general election.

Karl Rove is pulling strings for Thompson and as soon as the public is confronted with those facts his numbers will decline. Rove is also the mastermind behind the amnesty bill. Look for the Thompson/Rove campaign to keep this info from as many people as they can. Thompson is just another Rove puppet.

before he was against it. Thompson was also for the Mcain/Feingold bill before he was against it. I guess he too is a flip flopper.

Just because Fred Thomspon was not like every other Senator in congress trying to get his name on bills without substance, does not make him Lazy. Lazy is taking some media coined stereotype that everyone else is using rather then doing any research for your article.

Fred Thompson had to dissolve a phony PAC that he set up for his son, Daniel. The phony, shell PAC gave out about $66,000 while netting his son $178,000. Payments to his son were described as consulting fees.

In order to avoid any scandal, Thompson ended the PAC days before he let the word out that he was running for President. How convenient.

Before he was elected to the Senate, Thompson spent nearly two decades in Washington as a lawyer-lobbyist, representing such entities as Westinghouse, the deposed leader of Haiti, the Teamsters Union pension fund and the Tennessee Savings and Loan Association.

After a review of lobbying records and Thompson’s tax returns, The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal reported in 1994 that he earned $507,000 from lobbying in 1975-93. That figure, a fraction of his total legal income, reflects a narrower definition of lobbying than the one in the current law. Thompson reported $3.7 million in income from lawyering and acting from 1983 to 1993, according to The Commercial Appeal and other Tennessee newspapers that cited his tax returns.

All I know is, this guy had better live up to the hype, because the GOP has jack and shit right now for candidates. And regardless of who they run, Republicans had better hope that Hillary wins the nomination on the Dems’ side, because Obama would nab every independent voter in the country.

Isn’t it just wonderful that the new elections & ethics laws exempt PACs and now almost all congressmembers have a PAC? (things that make you go) HHHMMMMM!!!!

I think active politicians should be excluded from PACs as they are an obvious conflict of interest.

On Immigration… People keep calling it Amnesty because it is such a charged word. As an immigrant myself I wonder, why give people in the country illegaly citizenship? If they came in illegaly why would you reward them with citizenship. I could see residence for 10 years and then get out for 5 and give someone else a shot at america’s prosperity. Seems to me both sides are just playing a game with legislation they really do not want to pass or even do anything about. Makes for good television though, the sheep eat it up.

Even more interesting is that Thompson is the one that fine tuned the Mcain/Feingold bill only to turn around and manipulate PAC’s that ultimately lined the pockets of his own blood relatives. The guy is shady, which is why he has yet to officially announce. He doesnt want to answer questions from informed voters. Instead he is off to Isreal and London to campaign for the US Presidency on foreign soil. I guess while other candidates are out speaking to Americans about what is important to Americans, Thompson will be trying to pad his resume abroad.

With several candidates who would be better for Americas future, its a shock that Fred Thompson is in a tie with Rudy in any poll. We dont need another Reagan we need a progressive. Conservatisim cant deliver the future we deserve.

Fred refuses to officially announce so he doesnt have to debate his opponents or particpate in the process he is quick to criticise.

Fred refuses to field questions from reporters or even his own supporters.

Karl Rove, who is the mastermind behind the amnesty bill is the one pulling strings and stiff arming people into showing support for Fred.

Matlin/Carville is sending Thompson the Israel and London later this month to make it appear Fred has foreign affaris experience, when in reality, he doesn’t.

Fred was for abortion before he was against it.

Fred was for Mcain/Feingold before he was against it.

Fred is a globalist.

Fred is a lobbyist.

Fred is a dirty ol man with a fetish for young girls.

This is just begining and this is all really know about the guy. I predect that more we know about Fred, the less people will support him. It is however, interesting to see SoCon twist themselves into a pretzel trying to sell this guy as the SoCon candidate when he is anything but that.

Nice try.

This is a the guy whose questioning revealed the existence of the recording equipment in the Nixon Oval Office, and who brought down a corrupt Democratic governor of Tennessee when he went home.

Your post is pretty much the liberal party line. The fact is, though, that the reason so many of us back Thompson is because he is the most effective communicator in the modern history of politics- including Ronald Reagan.

Take your pick- debates, or sound bites at twenty paces. Fred Thompson will shread Hillary or anybody else unfortunate enough to be the Democratic nominee next year. He or she simply won’t know what hit him or her.

In the meantime, you just keep telling yourself that it’s all about Republican dissatisfaction with the alternatives.

Please.

BTW, Thompson’s pro-choice stand (in the first trimester)was decades ago, and he never was against McCain-Feingold.

Bill Clinton and Al Gore were both once pro-life. Does that make them flip floppers?

Thompson is just 6 ft of baggage that will force it’s way into the debates among the already crowded field of windbags. This sack of meat will just take away time from the only real candidate, Ron Paul. It’s time the party started backing real, electable candidates before it’s too late. Ron Paul 2008.

I’ll tell you why we Republicans don’t back McCain, It’s because he is a nut. His positions do not come close to mainstream Republicans and we see him as worse than a liberal. His willingness to ignore what the majority of Republicans want will be his downfall. I will vote for Fred Thompson and McCain be damned.

I’ll tell you why we Republicans don’t back McCain, It’s because he is a nut. His positions do not come close to mainstream Republicans and we see him as worse than a liberal. His willingness to ignore what the majority of Republicans want will be his downfall. I will vote for Fred Thompson and McCain be damned.

Oh man this is hillarious… did you see bush get his watch ripped off in albania? He didn’t even notice, just shows how out of touch with reality he is. Much like the pope the other day with people yelling and wrestling right behind him didn’t even notice. Totally unaware of their surroundings.
These things always come in threes, what’s next? General Pace doesn’t notice that the Sunny insurgents he’s helping so they fight the al-qaidas are actually using those weapons to keep killing americans?

What is really amazing is the number of democrats who are so terribly afraid of a man who has not yet even declared his candidacy. Thanks for showing us how threatened you are by Fred Thompson.

“i just neutered my cat — now he’s a liberal”

I have met Fred THompson, and I know a great deal about the man. What liberals are afraid of is that he will reenergize the party base, a disaster for Dems. Republicans fear he will win, a true conservative, he will buck many compromises the moderates have backed. These twom parties disagree just enough to avoid a third party.

With Fred, what you see is what you get! No spin!

Lazy Presidents — like the late Ronald Reagan — DELEGATE to others and have a clear sense of what they can and can’t accomplish.

And he’s as good a communicator as Reagan. Thompson nailed the illegal immigration issue with his statement that it’s our house and we should be able to decide who enters it, a concept every Mexican, Guatemalan, et al understands.

Michael Moore challenged him to a debate and in a near nanosecond Thompson wrote and filmed a devastating responsen widely seen on Youtube.

He would make Obama seem like a callow boy who should wait 8 or 12 years before trying again. And Hillary? His relaxed Southern courtliness would bring out the shrike in her.

Presidential debates between Thompson and any of the Democrats would be party events bigger than the now overfamiliar Oscars.

Listening to Sen. Thompson speak last night, it made me realize, this is a man that is a true Stateman. Unlike our other choices on both sides that are politicians. He is not in, or going to be in, the race for his ego. He will enter because he truly believes he will change the course of our Country and take back our Country! I believe, and respect the fact that he is waiting to make sure he can win before entering, unlike the others that have tossed their hats in the ring(except for Edwards who does not wear a hat for fear of messing his 70’s looking feathered hair-do) to give them their airtime and 15 minutes of fame! Go FRED!

should be a fraid of a Thompson Presidency. He is completely unqualified and inept. Its not about party lines. Its about what is best for the direction of this country and he doesnt measure up. He is a joke. He cant win, which is why is afraid to announce. He knows as soon as people start asking questions about his ties to Haiti and the SAvings & loan scandals, the sooner the truth will get out that his nothing but a grimy, self serving, DC lobbyist, who made millions for himself at the expense of others.

Thompson is toast!

Thompson supports the amnesty bill!

Unqualified? Inept? Scandalous? Grimy? Self-serving? Perfect Republican. We’ve got a winner, folks. On to the general election.
Psst! Watch the white girl in prison/ran away/murdered. Pay no attention to those silly foreign stories or those complicated things about science and economics that just make you confused. Look! A white girl shaved her head.

Those who suggest Thompson is a flip-flopper are in panic mode! I’ve followed him closely for his entire career. One thing he is not is a flip-flopper. Wise up folks we can see right through it! You will have a better chance at disagreeing with his positions than trying to paint him with the Clinton super-flopper brush!

Fred may have changed his point of view on one or two things but that is natural. He has never waivered from his basic belief systems. He is real. That scares the H, E, double hocky sticks out of the translucent dems!

Hey, Morgan, feeling a little panicky are you? Provide some facts, dates and such…verifiable, if you can! I’m guessing you’re a colledge kid or professor, which is about the same other than age?

I’m not sure how qualified Fred is. I do know that he is the most honest of the lot running on either side. Hillary could do the job if you could just trust her…which, you can not!

Thompson is just another Repubican who is in and out of the political scene-Another Actor who will be led around by special interest groups.

His legislative voting record is abysmal and, he will be another platform-pusher and we can expect more wars, tax cuts to continue the welfare system for the wealthy, and fascism to become the classist blight that destroys America-Bush and Party are making great gains to accelerate the horrendous Process…

I’m sick of “Law & Order” and another Republican Face attempting to steer the country into more turmoil…(Another “moral” midget-but it’s O.K.-’Cause Thompson is a Republican-they are under a Different “Justice System” than the rest of us.

of course he is electable, any one is if they hang around the Republican mens rooms long enough.
This guys voting record and his dependence on someone allays telling him how to vote, lack of any initatives or initative period makes Thompson a natural.

of course he is electable, any one is if they hang around the Republican mens rooms long enough.
This guys voting record and his dependence on someone always telling him how to vote, lack of any initatives or initative period makes Thompson a natural.

Whomever Thompson runs against… it is sure that that there will be a great dissapointment Loony Left community. America still stands for morality… one of the many great qualities dems do not posses. Thank God we dont have to count on Rudi to get us there!

This we know. Democrats are all about raising taxes, larger government, socializing health care, basically messing up this great country. I say Fred is a shoe in!

Fred has been a lobbyist most of his politcal life and now all of the sudden he wants to claim he is a DC outsider.

Thats about as disenfenous as they come. But please, dont let a sill thing like FACTS stop you from telling everyone how he soooooo honest.

gimme a break.

Do you really “fear, though, that Fred’s numbers are softer than his Dixie Drawl”? You fear that? The tone of your article seems to be the opposite…you HOPE that Fred’s numbers are softer than his Dixie Drawl….I think that better matches the overall tone of your concluding paragraphs. By the way, you’re wrong!

“While Thompson may play a Reagan Republican on television, his real-life record is that of a lazy man’s John McCain.”

Sounds like you’re floating out the talking points to see how well they’ll stick.

“Thompson began working for Equitas in 2004 as part of a gold-plated team that included some of Washington’s best-known lobbying firms: Quinn Gillespie & Associates (led by Edward W. Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee), Ickes & Enright Group (led by Harold Ickes, an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York) and DLA Piper, one of D.C.’s biggest lobbying law firms.”

Most of the candidates are backed by the money of David Rockefeller in one way or another, and that money is being spent for the purpose of pushing forward the agenda for One World Government, which will greatly benefit international corporations.

All of these candidates are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, which advocates One World Government –

Fred Thompson (also member of the pro-war American Enterprise Institute)
Rudy Giuliani
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Jim Gilmore
Newt Gingrich
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd
Bill Richardson

Too bad the Dumbocrats don’t have a “new kid in town”. They need one because there is something we all know deep down in our hearts. The next President of the United States of America will be neither black nor female. Hate it for you…

oh yea, dumbocrats… too bad Bush can’t run again, you could once again vote for a person who can’t finish a sentence, much less a press briefing without stammering 20 times. Just think, perhaps Cheney decides to run again so you can vote for a guy that shoots his friend in the face and then goes to hide from the police till he’s sober. Only decent guy in the rep ticket is Ron Paul and they are already calling him a cook. A CIA analyst says Paul nailed it and Ruddy calls for a retraction, talk about out of touch with reality.

Can anyone explain to me why, if Iraq is so impotant to win in terms of the ‘war on terror’ and this is ‘the long war’, and it is obvious we don’t have enough troops to control our friends, much less out enemies; our politicians have not yet instituted the draft and ramped up production at home instead of in countries that harbor our enemies?

Could it be that the administration thinks in terms of politics and the popularity of the party instead of doing things correctly?

Hell ambulance chaser, a 76 is like the kiss of death from the christians. Just being a Republican almost guarantees a 99. There are over 200 Republicans with a higher rating and 8 with a lower rating than Paul from the Christian Coalition… makes me more likely to vote for him. And yeah I voted for him when he was a Libertarian so if he sneeks onto the Demo ticket I’ll still try to get the outsider in.

Thompson thus far has employed an extremely intelligent strategy, namely, sit on the sidelines and watch the other contenders beat the crap out of one another. With McCain going after Romney and Guilianni unable to raise any kind of real money the Republican field is already bloody and we have another year and a half to go. Unfortunately for Fred sooner or later he will have to strap-up and get in the game too, and then we will all see him get hit with the same dirt that is already flying!

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Damn, hit by the sensor again.

What was it Tim? Length? Content? Use of the word Pu$$#?

Told you a month and a half ago my Hendersonville neighbor was in the hunt. Old Freddy is the feel good trusting faced already famous white boy now voted most likely to succeed… we need law & order.

It’s amazing how Bible-thumping “conservatives” rant on the immorality of liberalism. I bet the money-lenders in the temple said the same thing about Jesus. (I’m not waxing theological, I’m referring to the historical event) “Who’s the unkempt guy messing with our business talking about loving neighbors and not killing people for their possessions?” “It’s immoral!” “Crucify him!”

All the Republican Candidates have Flip-floped on all the major issues. They are so busy kissing Bush’s —, they forgot to look at the cliff he is leading them over..
Thompson was a Do-Nothing politician who now has the Republican Must-”Face & Name Recognition”…Maybe he can Deregulate more businesses into the ditch…No apptitude and he is too old and has not added anything to Either Career…How desperate is the Republican Party-Bush and anything that claims to be a “politician” or “actor”-same thing…Amazing!

WARNING: Serial poster “Cake” is off her meds … again. Read at your own risk.

The Management

Fred will carry the day in 08.