The days of Republican fiscal responsibility are long past.

The current administration spent our tax dollars like no other in American history. When they spent all we had, they started charging trillions to our children’s credit cards. All the leading Republican Presidential candidates are in favor of continuing this irresponsible deficit spending.

The last Democratic administration left us with a balanced budget.

Times have changed.

And you think you can win by running against Jimmy Carter?

And if all those bad things about Fred are true then you democrats should be overjoyed that the republicans would want to nominate him. Makes Hillary's run for the presidency a cake walk right?

Here's a reality check. I know quite a few people who are happy to vote for Fred despite those bad things he might have done in the past. Most of us feel we don't make enough money to afford all the spending a democratic president is going to do.

You think jobs are leaving the United States now? Put a democratic president in office with all their regulations and "green" programs and watch the existing jobs leave as well. Watch the auto industry that is already in dire straights go completely buns up when they can't afford all the "green" restrictions on cars Americans aren't buying anyway.

We'll see who has the last laugh. And I too remember the Carter years. You think mortgages are bad now? 11% interest was the average back then with a late 1970's income. So were long gas lines. You want that again? Go ahead and vote for your tax and spend democrat then we'll discuss the difference between bad and good.

Let's focus on Fred's background as a big-time lobbyist, Republican insider, country boy posturer and all-around panderer. I won't rehash all the legit points raised by David from Salinas.

And Fred's comment about illegal immigrants and suicide bombers is very illuminating. It gives a glimpse into how he would run his campaign. Mexicans = terrorists. There is simply no logical progression. In that sense, it's a classically Republican campaign strategy. What else would Fred say to scare you into voting for him?

If America did happen to be stupid enough to elect a lazy, flip-flopping, not-very-good-actor version of George Bush, then it would deserve whatever it gets.

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Another old white male saying the same old stuff that's not based on facts but full of hate.

Just like he is going to announce that he is going to announce he is going to drop out.

Obviously you don't research before posting Chattanooga and Chicage...

You can tell, because after barely campaigning, he's already poised to be the Republican Nominee. Hitlary's people have even put out innacurate hit articles on him (as parroted by John thomas.)

You are the man, Fred. Let's keep this country strong and prosperous! Vote Fred in 08!

When I say bad I don’t mean like the Michael Jackson song or Bad Bad Leroy Brown. And I don’t mean like George W. Bush is a bad President, (he is, but he’s not a bad man). This isn’t about competence or ideology, it’s about morality. Fred Thompson is bad as in evil. Fred Thompson does not have the moral Character to be President of the United States.

Fred Thompson is the worst kind of Washington insider. He’s not the Devil himself, but he was surely the Devil’s lobbyist. Fred Thompson was a lobbyist for insurance companies denying sick people’s asbestos claims. Fred Thompson was a lobbyist for big tobacco companies that covered up the real science of addiction and cancer. Fred Thompson was a lobbyist for foreign mining companies and foreign auto companies taking jobs away from Americans. Fred Thompson was a lobbyist for deregulating failing Savings & Loans that cost Americans their life savings. Fred Thompson was a pro-abortion lobbyist, but he now runs pro-life. Fred Thompson was a lobbyist for Haitian strongman Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Thompson had a few other high-paid insider D.C. jobs, too. He ran some Republican campaigns and he worked on the Senate Watergate Committee and he was a defense attorney for Washington white-collar criminals, and he raised money for Scooter Libby.. About the only job Fred Thompson didn’t do in Washington was the job he was elected to do. He never did much in his time in the Senate. (We may be fortunate about that).

With all that badness in his past, Senator Thompson is set to run a campaign based entirely on people’s worst instincts. He plays on fear. He knows some Americans are afraid and he’s using that to get what he wants. Fred Thompson may be a bad man, but he’s a pretty good actor. In a courtroom or a tv drama, he’s good at pretending to be good. And that’s what makes him so dangerous. Americans just might believe him. I sure hope they don’t, not for the sake of my party but for the sake of the nation.

I like some of the candidates and I don’t like others, but there’s only one candidate I think is bad and that’s Fred Thompson. He was a lobbyist for the bad guys. He was a bad Senator. He’d be a bad President. He really is a bad man.

i feel bad for him. he is going to have to travel to like four states after he announces by video. i imagine that is difficult for him given how lazy he is.

this guy doesn't have what it takes. he appears to be a whimp to me.

I went up to him and said, "Come on, man, how about giving a retired
person a break"? He ignored me and continued writing the ticket. I
called him a "Nazi. He glared at me and started writing another
ticket for having worn tires. So I called him a "Doughnut Eating
Gestapo." He
finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the
first. Then he started writing a third ticket. This went on for about
20 minutes. The more I abused him, the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, I didn't care. I came downtown on the bus and the car
that he was putting the tickets on had a bumper sticker that said
"Thompson in '08." I try to have a little fun each day now that I'm
retired.

It's important to my health.

Okay, for starters, he portrays himself as an outsider in the mold of Reagan, yet in reality he was a lobbyist for many years in Washington, status quo, and he lacks Reagan's ideology, ambition, passion, charisma AND HAIR.

He was also the guy that asked the question on a Senate committee circa 1970 that started the downfall of Nixon. He asked the question about the Nixon tapes, whether they exist. Great right? Wrong. He told the Nixon administration all about the question he was going to ask days earlier to give them warning and time to prepare a defense. He was a huge Nixon supporter and good buddy of Cheney who was also in that administration.

Then there's Vice President Cheney's current Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, whom Bush just pardoned for lying about Valerie Plame... Thompson has been Libby's biggest supporter and fund raiser for his "defense fund", which Libby is using to pay that 250,000 fine that Bush hasn't bothered to pardon him of yet.

Do we really want Fred, the guy that's leading the charge for lying, corporate corruption in Washington, to be our next President?

Well, maybe he's a hard worker, you say?

Uh, well, actually he is world famous for being the laziest Senator on record, and even more infamous for his constant procrastination and vacations, possibly even surpassing our current President in that regard.

Well, maybe he's well spoken, you say? Maybe he's tough on terror, you say?

Think again on both counts, I can sum it up in one quote from Fred Thompson I just found in Newsweek, "Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world."

Huh? Say What?

This dumbfoundingly confusing statement seems to be saying that the suicidal maniacs are here and want to kill innocents elsewhere. Not only is it garbled nonsense, it's also intended to provoke fear and combines two totally unrelated issues. He said it at a major speech.

The bottom line is... haven't we had enough of the same old fear mongering, nonsensical talk about nothing from a President constantly on vacation in a cowboy hat while faking a good ol' boy Texas twang already?

Do we really need another one?

When I first heard of Fred's candidacy I was happy. Then he waited...and waited...and waited. In so doing Fred avoided the initial debates and the Iowa straw poll. To what end? What did Fred have to gain by waiting so long? A better question might be what does Fred have to hide that caused him to wait so long?

It will be very interesting to see how well Fred does in the primaries. The ultra conservatives will vote for him but what about the rest of us?

Thankfully being a good ol' boy isn't going to play that well in the states he would need to win in the general election, so at least I don't have to seriously worry about 4 years of him.