All this Fred bashing from people who have not even read what he has accomplished in his political career. Accomplished is the key word here, can Clinton or Obama say this? NO! Sure he is a dark horse for now, but the true voters are watching closer than you think. What I see on here is a bunch of liberals doing what they do best, crying, instead of checking out the candidates and judging them on what they have done in their political career. So what if Fred is married to a younger woman, good for him. I think some on here are jealous. She would make a lovely first lady. I know I would rather see her represent our country than that wrinkled up flip-flopper, with no accomplishments with Bill hanging on to her skirt-tail. We've had enough of the Clintons. Time for a change.

Fred will protect this country and try and bring us back together as One Nation Under God.

Go to his webpage and read up on him, instead of just making up your on ideas of him.

I will vote for Fred Thompson on his stance.

Go Fred Go!!!!!

Fred Thompson has the best platform out there, and he has my vote. I hope to see him walk on to success in 2008 as our next president.

Back to Law & Order....

His heart was never in it to begin with.

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The top two Republicans are Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. One is a flip-flopper, who supports abortion rights one day and does not on the next. The same candidate spent $20M in Iowa and is in 2nd to a guy who hasn't spent $10M nationally. The other is a Baptist minister and is surging without spending any serious money. Go figure. Those Sun Belt Governors are the best and win in both parties.

Thompson is going to place all of his efforts and money in Iowa. Therefore, he can get out of the race as soon as he finishes a distant 3rd. He only wants to campaign 2 or 3 days per week anyway. Fred Thompson still mentions the Soviet Union. Are you kidding me?

Actually its the Blue Man Group, because they dont have anything to say either...lol

That's all you need to know about Fred. Social Security reform, Taxes, Immigration, Bugdet, Education and Health Care.

NO OTHER candidate has mentioned social security? Is this not important to everyone?

Educate yourself and quit following the media machine.

Posted By chris sc : December 11, 2007 11:34 am

0 because he has no executive experience. Fred needs to be tucked in bed again.

The candidate with the most execute experience = Mike Huckabee, who by the way was just endorsed by the Minute Men Group.

Mikehuckabee.com

No republican or democrat is worth voting for. They are all a joke–maybe with the exception of Ron Paul, but he doesn't stand a chance with the American people because he actually has principles.

How about a story about campaign contributions from the U.S. Military?

Or is that not allowed because it would put a certain candidate from Texas in a positive light?

And if they won't have you, maybe you can do celebrity "Deal or No Deal" next year.

Hail to the Chief!

Ron Paul

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He expected to be annointed just like "W" was, but this time he figured wrong.

So long, Fred.

Go back down to those southern gun shows and tell 'em again that you're in paradise. That'll get a few locals to vote for you.

Good posting, I think in essence, Thompson is one of those people who aren't good at the political campaigning part but may be very good at the governance part. But my thinking has been for some time now that he may be vouching for a vice-Presidential nod. In many ways, he could be to Huckabee or Giuliani what Cheney was to Bush, a very knowlegable and experienced veteran in government who doesn't enjoy the campaigning part. And he could keep the conservative base intact for the Presidential candidate also.

This is funny. He would be the closest thing we have ever had to Stalin. He cleaned up the streets of NYC with billy clubs. Giuliani is a fascist plain and simple. I can't wait until the FDNY swiftboats his candidacy.

It was Nixon that was quoted calling him lazy and stupid. This guy is a joke like the rest of the field.

You crashed and burned before you even got off the ground.........that must be a record in itself.

OK, who's next to embarrass the GOP?

First, New Hampshire has been irrelevant as far as choosing a GOP nominee for the past 20 years. And this year, their already meager delegation is set to be cut in half.

Second, for all the talk of Fred being lazy, there is very little evidence supporting such assertions. The man was a federal prosecutor in his late 20s; he was minority counsel to the Watergate committee at a very young age; Thompson helped bring down a corrupt governor; He wrote a book on government waste after serving two terms in the Senate; And Thompson has worked in factories, as a bouncer, and a myriad other regular jobs. His resume is not that of a lazy man. He may not have the spark and permasmile you see on the other candidates. But I'd rather have someone who knows what's going on, than someone who can tell a good joke and seems like a really nice guy.

As a candidate? He received praise from the publications across the political spectrum (Washington Post, National Review) for his plan addressing Social Security. He has been the only candidate, on either side of the aisle, to address this issue. And it is an issue you can rest assured will become key, if not in this election, in the next one. People in their late 20s like me are not going to stand by the rest of our lives seeing hundreds of dollars stripped from our paychecks every month for a compulsory retirement system that will be bankrupt before we hit our 50s.

In addition to his social security plans, Thompson has proposed comprehensive and intelligent policies regarding: (1)the reformation of our tax system (which gives more breaks to the middle class); (2)the rebuilding of our military; and (3) the enforcement of our borders and our duly-enacted immigration laws.

Say what you will with your worn-out geritol jokes, and your lurch jokes. But the man is an intellectual powerhouse, and understands what our nation needs right now: a complete overhaul of a bloated and corrupt federal government, and a return of power to the states pursuant to the Constitution.

At least maybe you Thompson haters could come up with some fresh material. The stick a fork in him/geritol/is he awake jokes are getting stale.

Anyone vaguely familiar with the political career of John McCain knows about the “Keating Five” scandal. For those not clear on the specifics, we’ll do a quick review:

In the midst of the savings and loan implosion of the 80s, federal auditors begin investigating the practices of S&L magnate Charles Keating. McCain, along with four other Senators, meets with Keating to discuss ways to derail the investigation.
McCain and his colleagues meet with Ed Gray, the chairman of the regulatory board, and persuade him to delay seizing the S&L.
Two years later, regulators finally have to seize the S&L for a federal bailout, costing taxpayers $2.6 billion. In the meantime, 17,000 investors in Keating’s S&L lose $190 million.
For someone with a stainless “reform” halo, McCain looks pretty dirty here. So, what does the “straight-talker” do? Take responsibility? Apologize? Nah:

McCain defended his attendance at the meetings by saying Keating was a constituent and that Keating’s development company, American Continental Corporation, was a major Arizona employer. McCain said he wanted to know only whether Keating was being treated fairly and that he had not tried to influence the regulators…

Oh, well we have no problem, then. After all, McCain’s job is to look out for his constituents, right?

But Keating was more than a constituent to McCain–he was a longtime friend and associate…Keating raised money for McCain’s two congressional campaigns in 1982 and 1984, and for McCain’s 1986 Senate bid. By 1987, McCain campaigns had received $112,000 from Keating, his relatives, and his employees–the most received by any of the Keating Five…

Okay, so that’s pretty fishy. Still, I guess you could say that just because someone gives you money doesn’t make you best buds…

After McCain’s election to the House in 1982, he and his family made at least nine trips at Keating’s expense, three of which were to Keating’s Bahamas retreat. McCain did not disclose the trips (as he was required to under House rules) until the scandal broke in 1989…And in April 1986, one year before the meeting with the regulators, McCain’s wife, Cindy, and her father invested $359,100 in a Keating strip mall.

Cripes! This is some Tom DeLay stuff, folks. So, here we have McCain conspiring with a campaign crony to rip off shareholders and American taxpayers. What does McCain do to atone for his sins?

…he contributed $112,000 (the amount raised for him by Keating) to the U.S. Treasury.

Oh, thanks John. Now, according to my calculations, you only owe American taxpayers about $2,599,880,000.00. We’d like that in cash, please.

Now they are doing the same thing with this fool Huckabee, the only thing he has is that he says "God" a lot and a stupid Chuck Norris endorsement as if Huckabee were running as the president of some internet forum... look into this guy and he falls apart faster than a Fiat car. The prominent conservative group "The Club for Growth" is even going to start running attack ads against him, God's sakes.

Thankfully the only people with a shot at beating the Democrats are McCain and Ron Paul, and the media brushes them aside and belittles any of their accomplishments.

They have their heads shoved so far up their collective culos to see this.