Ron Paul vs. Fred Thompson

[Bruehound]

Thompson should be attacked using issues conservatives care about.

Thompson was one of the orginal co-sponsors of McCain-Feingold'

Thompson was pro-abort in the early nineties.

 

[angelatc]

YOu missed the part where he was a Washington lobbyist for 10-12 years.

He's a big flip-flopper. Last year, he was pro-amnesty, and favored a "virtual" fence rather than a physical barrier.

Suddenly, he's releasing sound and video bites condemning the immigration bill pending in Congress.

This is what makes me want to bang my head, hard, into a wall.

 

[drinkbleach]

Fred Thompson passed the bar in 1967. 2 years later he became assistant US attorney.

He was the Senate Watergate Committee's chief minority counsel in 1973 and 1974. In 1975 he wrote a Watergate memoir entitled "At That Point in Time."

After Watergate, Thompson served as special counsel to former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander and special counsel to both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Thompson chaired the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which held hearings in 1997 on the 1996 campaign finance controversies from 1997 to 2001.

In his first foray into electoral politics, in 1994, he won the special election for former vice president Al Gore's Senate seat.

Sound like he's always been connected? It does to me.

We can expect to 'stay the course' in Iraq and Iran if he's elected.

Bosso

Good lord, that guy is the typical behind the scenes Karl Rove type. It's fascinating what a minimal amount of research can turn up.

 

[tnvoter]

What are some issues they agree on and what are some they disagree on? How can we convince Thompson supporters to support Dr. Paul?

Until I found out about Ron Paul, I was supporting Fred.

Also finding out that Fred has flip flopped on a few issues kinda opened me up to considering someone else, and RP blew my mind-so to speak. Lol.

 

[tnvoter]

YOu missed the part where he was a Washington lobbyist for 10-12 years.

He's a big flip-flopper. Last year, he was pro-amnesty, and favored a "virtual" fence rather than a physical barrier.

Suddenly, he's releasing sound and video bites condemning the immigration bill pending in Congress.

This is what makes me want to bang my head, hard, into a wall.

We also need to remind the Neocons is this-- He will be painted a flip flopper by the left, just like Kerry was painted in the '04 election, he simply will not win.

 

[angelatc]

Until I found out about Ron Paul, I was supporting Fred.

Also finding out that Fred has flip flopped on a few issues kinda opened me up to considering someone else, and RP blew my mind-so to speak. Lol.

We're soul mates. The longer I hang out here, the more I know that I made the right decision.

You probably know that Fred has a plan to use the internet to communicate directly. That was evidenced in the video retort to Michael Moore.

But he controls the spin. When the video came out, I innocently wondered about the cigar on one of his "unofficial" forums. (And I really was an innocent - now I'm snarky - but I was indeed an innocent then.) That quickly disappeared. So then I asked about it on YouTube. That forum had lots of snarky Fred comments from Michael Moore supporters. All those comments disappeared, and now the forum is closed for comment, although there are lots of "Run Fred Run!" type comments still there.

Now that I'm snarky, I posted on a right-wing forum where lots of candidates are represented. That thread also disappeared.

Apparently Fred wants to communicate with us, but he doesn't want us to communicate with each other.

 

[literatim]

Ron Paul isn't a "peace candidate". Ron Paul fully supports going after Al Qaeda and is against illegal and worthless wars.

 

[Shmuel Spade]

Ron Paul isn't a "peace candidate". Ron Paul fully supports going after Al Qaeda and is against illegal and worthless wars.

True, but I think when people say "the war" these days they're likely referring to the Iraq War and not Afghanistan. So anyone against "the war" is by default the peace candidate.

 

[4Horsemen]

What's next when "Freddy" falls on his CFR face? John Wayne comes back from the dead to save America?