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Fred Thompson considering running in 2008
Topic Started: Mar 12 2007, 06:18 AM (212 Views)
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WASHINGTON - Fred Thompson thinks there isn't enough "star" power in the GOP presidential field, so the professional actor and former Tennessee senator is considering getting into the 2008 race.

Thompson, who plays district attorney Arthur Branch on NBC's drama "Law & Order," said Sunday that he's going to "leave the door open" and make a decision in the coming months.

"I'm going to wait and see what happens," Thompson said. "I want to see my colleagues on the campaign trial, what they say, what they emphasize, whether they can carry the ball next November."

"I think people are somewhat disillusioned. A lot of people are cynical out there. They're looking for something different," he said.

Thompson, 64, said he was pondering a run after former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and other Tennessee Republicans began drumming up support for his possible GOP candidacy, citing his conservative credentials.

On the issues, Thompson said he:

* Is "pro-life," and believes federal judges should overturn the 1973
Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision as "bad law and bad medical science."

* Opposes gay marriage, but would let states decide whether to allow civil unions. "Marriage is between a man and a woman, and judges shouldn't be allowed to change that."

* Opposes gun control, and praised last week's 2-1 federal appeals decision overturning a long-standing handgun ban. "The court basically said the Constitution means what it says."

* Supports President Bush's decision to increase troops in Iraq. "Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify them. I think we are doing that now," he said. "We've got to give it a chance to work."

* Would pardon former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice now, rather than waiting until all his appeals are exhausted.

Libby is "bearing the political brunt of something that should've never come about," Thompson said, noting that "practically every witness at trial had inconsistent statements."

Thompson said he was not setting a deadline to make a decision and believes he won't be at a disadvantage if he waited until summer. "The lay of the land will be different in a couple of months than it is today, one way or another," he said.

Thompson, the minority counsel in the Watergate investigation, was elected to the Senate in 1994 to fill the unexpired term of Vice President Al Gore. He was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee and left the Senate in 2003 to resume his acting career.

Thompson has acted in films such as "The Hunt for Red October," "Cape Fear," and "In the Line of Fire." He was interviewed on "Fox News Sunday."
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I've always thought of Fred Thompson as a presidential candidate. Without delving further at this time, I believe he would get my vote and support. I hope he decides to run smiley-patriotic-flag-wave smiley-patriotic-flag-wave smiley-patriotic-flag-wave
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He may be our raising star! It looks pretty grim so far. One thing is for sure. If we don't get someone we can gather behind, the Clinton political machine will win the day. I like his view on the Scooter Libby trail and conviction. It was nothing more than a liberal witch hunt taken to the final degree. He was convicted for lying about something that he should have lied about by law, but didn't - in theory. If he knew that Plame was a covert agent (which she wasn't), he was obligated to lie about her status by law. Since he didn't lie about her status but did lie about not lieing about her status, he was convicted. Getting beyond the whole Bill Clinton support when he lied, it was still completely bogus.

That was probably the most useless and politically driven miss-carriage of justice in the history of mankind and anyone involved in it should be burned at the stake for heresey.
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You got that stuff right ... !!!!


Dems at their finest ... wasting tax dollars, courts systems time and energy, making a to-do about nothing, dealing ONLY in the past and refusing to look to the future ... Lies of the nnnnnnth degree!!!
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I've always liked Fred Thompson and he would make the best candidate that I could think of at the moment. If he does choose to run, he will have mine and my families vote. I remember seeing him on some of the Senate panels and liked the way he did things then.
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I think I'd like for him to join the race for the next president of the U.S.A.

We need a fiscal and moral conservative very very badly.

Thanks for the good topic,

Duke
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I don't really know a whole lot about him, but what I do know, I like more than what we've got as the supposed front runners right now.
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I guess it is my turn to weigh in on Fred Thompson. I know very little but, judging from what he said concerning the the abolished ban on guns in D.C. and his stand on Roe Vs wade, He sounds like someone I could get behind. I know there are more that these two issues and I would want to know what his religious affiliation is if any among other things but, I think if he is going to get in he needs to now and Rush, Hannity, O'Rielly and Beck really need to go to bat for him. I think he is making a mistake to wait to long to announce
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This may be who I've been waiting for... I will wait and pray!!!!
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Quote from another site ... checking more into his voting record or stance on issues

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Fred has a lifetime voting rating of 86 from the American Conservative Union. Given the nature of the beast when it comes to congress and the give and take of actual voting, and 86 is fairly good.


From all I've read, he could definitely blow guiliani outa the water and other 'runners' also, SHOULD he choose to run ...
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Fred Thompson Stance on Issues

More moderate than conservative but slightly to the right of center ...
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Toothless Dawg,Mar 13 2007
06:41 AM
Fred Thompson Stance on Issues

More moderate than conservative but slightly to the right of center ...

Hey TD, I just went there to check him out and post the link and you beat me to it! :)

But, yeah, they have him as a moderate populist conservative, slightly right of center. As far as immigration and free trade goes he looks like more of the same as we have right now. (not sure what they mean by "populist")

It's still early here, I need more :coffee:
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Yes'm ... but still a better choice than any dem, guiliani & mcpain included. We need someone who is willing to stand up and call it like it is ... no kid gloves, no whitewashing, no nursery school politics!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmmm wonder what Tommy Franks is doing lately, hahahaha
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On the other hand ...


Stolen from IMAO Blog

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Frank Facts About Fred Thompson
Posted by Frank J. at 10:01 AM

It's sounding more and more likely that Fred Thompson will run for the Republican nomination for President. Can he win, though, when it's well known that his penchant for bureaucracy nearly kept Bruce Willis and Clint Eastwood from getting the job done against terrorists and assassins?

I think he can.

Actually, the more I find out about Fred Thompson, the more I think he needs to be President. And I mean he should be President right now, like Dick Cheney should resign, President Bush should then appoint Fred Thompson to be Vice-President, and then President Bush should resign.

Do you think I'm going overboard when I've only just started to learn about Fred Thompson, but you won't when you read this:

AWESOME FACTS ABOUT FRED THOMPSON

* Fred Thompson has on multiple occasions pronounced "nuclear" correctly.

* Fred Thompson has blasted more people in the face with a shotgun than even Dick Cheney.
He's Fred Thompson. You're nothing.
* The masked executioner of Saddam Hussein: Fred Thompson.

* Not only does Fred Thompson cut taxes, he cuts tax collectors.

* Fred Thompson is the only person to have ever bested Miyamato Mushashi in a duel. The reason Musashi is so vague about the book of the void is because the fifth ring of combat is really Fred Thompson.

* The reason Fred Thompson didn't want to stay in the Senate for long is because all the extra scrutiny kept him from doing his favorite hobby: Prowling the streets at night killing drug dealers.

* Every night before going to sleep, Osama bin Laden checks under his bed for Fred Thompson.

* Fred Thompson took over what was Al Gore's Senate seat, thereby dramatically reducing the Senate's carbon footprint. Fred Thompson then created carbon offset offsets by wastefully burning hippies.

* The Fremen consider "Fred Thompson" a killing word.

* Fred Thompson reconsidered running for reelection after 9/11 but later decided to handle things on his own. He was soon seen entering the Middle East with a bottle of tequila in one hand an a handgun in the other. They're still counting the dead.

* Though Fred Thompson left the Senate in 2003, Harry Reid still hasn't stopped wetting his pants.

* Fred Thompson's gaze can kill small animals.

* Fred Thompson once ended a filibuster by ripping out a Senator's heart and showing it to him before he died.

* The actual cause of global warming: Fred Thompson's burning rage.

* The budget to Law & Order was dramatically increased when Fred Thompson was added to the cast because he has to be digitally inserted into the scenes since anytime he's near Hollywood liberals, he kills them.

* Only two things can kill Superman: Kryptonite and Fred Thompson.

* Fred Thompson once stood on our south border and glared at Mexico. There was no illegal immigration for a month.

* Scientists predict that when Fred Thompson dies he'll explode taking out the five nearest planets before collapsing into a black hole.

* At a campaign stop, a Belgian Hound tried to hump Fred Thompson's leg. That breed of dog no longer exists.

* Fred Thompson vows not only to win in Iraq but also to forcefully free Vietnam from Communism, thus giving America a perfect win/loss record for wars again.

* If you purchase a weather radio, it will wake you up with an alarm to warn you when Fred Thompson is pissed off.

* An abortion doctor tried to kill Fred Thompson when he was still in the womb, but he cut off the man's hand with scalpel while shouting, "Do you know who I am? I'm Fred Thompson!"

* Webster's Dictionary defines "conservatism" as "how closely one's views resemble those of Fred Thompson."

* Fred Thompson's sense of strategy is so great that he can checkmate you using only a pawn and a knight.

* Fred Thompson can know both the exact position and momentum of a particle. Furthermore, he knows Schroedinger's cat is dead because he personally strangled it.

* The most efficient airline security is to have Fred Thompson stare down everyone entering a plane.

* When terrorists get to the afterlife, they'll find that none of their seventy-two women are still virgins. Why? Because of Fred Thompson.

* Fred Thompson can open clamshell packaging without the slightest trouble.

* In a butterfly ballot, no matter where you punch it the vote goes to Fred Thompson.

* Why does Iran want nuclear weapons? Out of fear of Fred Thompson.

* Some versions of the Bible have Mathew 5:5 read, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth... unless Fred Thompson wants it."
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While all of these are good reasons for voting for Fred Thompson the best reason of all is:

Not only does Fred Thompson cut taxes, he cuts tax collectors.

The IRS has never been downsized but the military has been.

Hello, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
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Toothless Dawg,Mar 13 2007
08:41 AM

More moderate than conservative but slightly to the right of center ...

Being a little more moderate and just to the right might just be what it will take to garner enough votes to win. Gualani is more of a lefty to me, he believes in all the liberals stances. McCain, I've always thought of him as a Democrat that calls himself a Republican to gain votes and have never really liked some of the things he stood for. With Fred Thompson now if he enters the race, he just might pull it off. This might have been what we have been waiting on. I would like to know more about him though. But as it is right now, he's the first one that has thought about running that would get my vote as of this minute.
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Ronald Regan was my commander-in-chief,I have no problem voting for another actor. smiley-patriotic-flag-wave smiley-patriotic-flag-wave
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smokefan64,Mar 13 2007
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Ronald Regan was my commander-in-chief,I have no problem voting for another actor. smiley-patriotic-flag-wave smiley-patriotic-flag-wave

The last one did OK. Might as well try again.
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FYI

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Fred Thompson on Immigration
Former Republican Senator (TN)

From Issues.com

Voted YES on allowing more foreign workers into the US for farm work.

Vote to create a national registry containing names of U.S. workers who want to perform temporary or seasonal agricultural work, and to require the Attorney General to allow more foreign workers into the U.S. for farm work under H-2A visas.
Reference: Bill S.2260 ; vote number 1998-233 on Jul 23, 1998

Voted YES on visas for skilled workers.
This bill expanded the Visa program for skilled workers.
Status: Bill Passed Y)78; N)20; NV)2
Reference: The American Competitiveness Act; Bill S. 1723 ; vote number 1998-141 on May 18, 1998

Voted YES on limit welfare for immigrants.
This amendment would have restored food stamp benefits to the children of legal immigrants
Status: Motion to Table Agreed to Y)59; N)41
Reference: Motion to table Kennedy Amdt #429; Bill S.947 ; vote number 1997-111 on Jun 24, 1997


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How about a Tancredo/Thompson ticket. I believe Thompson has more experience but the who-runs-where can be decided by them. I believe it could be a winner??? smiley-patriotic-flag-wave smiley-patriotic-flag-wave smiley-patriotic-flag-wave
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Now you're talkin! Thompson has more name recognition....I think because of Law and Order, but I really like Tancredo's stand on the issues better. I think that would be a great ticket with Tancredo first. :banana-man:
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