Thompson Vs. Everyone
Posted on January 16, 2008
If this guy doesn’t get president, he will go down as a personal hero on conservatism for me, and many others. Check this out.
Thompson described fellow Southerner Huckabee as “very articulate, very witty, but does not like to answer questions about his record.” He called the former Governor “weak†on the issue of illegal immigration and again railed against his endorsement from the New Hampshire National Education Association, a teachers’ union. “Is he proud of that endorsement?†Thompson asked rhetorically. Of his “personal friend,” and former Senate colleague, John McCain, Thompson said he would “never forget†McCain’s service to the country. However, he said he disagreed with McCain on tax cuts and immigration, particularly his support for last year’s failed immigration reform. “When I saw him join forces with Senator [Ted] Kennedy on that, I knew that he was wrong track and he was, and the American people said so,†Thompson said. While he was not asked about rival Mitt Romney, in his response, Thompson also threw some more barbs at the former Governor of Massachusetts for “tailoring†his message to Michigan residents. “He basically promised the federal government would come in and bail out Michigan when he got elected President – very conservative notion, don’t you think?†Thompson asked facetiously.
Not enough? He takes on the Bush administration over the second amendment too:
The Fred Thompson for President, South Carolina bus tour reached Spartanburg today, where the Law & Order TV star candidate fielded questions at Papa’s Breakfast Nook from Charlotte, N.C.’s WBT-AM radio talk show host Jeff Katz. Asked his opinion of the Second Amendment and the Solicitor General’s request that the DC Circuit Court remand the appeal back to the trial court for “fact-findingâ€, the lawyer turned Senator from Tennessee said the Bush Administration was “overlawyering†and stated that he opposed remand and that the case should move forward to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Still not enough? One more thing, cuz I don’t want to make a whole new post about this but want everyone to check it out.
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MCCAIN: NO MORE MR. STRAIGHT TALK?Wed Jan 16, 6:28 PM ET
Did Mitt Romney just derail John McCain’s Straight Talk Express? Not all the Democrats’ and independents’ votes in Michigan were enough to canonize John McCain, who barreled through Dearborn and Detroit congratulating himself for nobly ignoring voters’ real concerns. In Michigan, Mitt “fight for every job” Romney trounced John “I cannot tell a lie” McCain.
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Romney’s victory in Michigan was surprisingly broad: He beat McCain among both men and women, older and younger voters, Catholics and Protestants, people with incomes above and below $50,000, college graduates and those with just a high school degree. Romney even bested both McCain and Huckabee among white evangelicals.
What kind of Michigan voters preferred McCain? Voters in the GOP primary who don’t like President Bush, who oppose the war in Iraq and who report that they have no religion at all. Oh, and those who say they are not, in fact, Republicans.
Will the Straight Talk Express power back up and chug through South Carolina? If the Michigan contest was partly a test of the brand’s power, the South Carolina campaign may derail its essential credibility.
The Annenberg Foundation’s nonpartisan FactCheck.org just delivered a powerful rebuke to the basic honesty of a McCain mailer used in South Carolina (and defended by Sen. McCain after reporters called it to his attention).
In particular, FactCheck.org called McCain’s assertion that Mitt Romney “provided” taxpayer-funded abortions “simply false.”
“Romney never pushed for taxpayer funding for abortions. The state law he signed provided greatly expanded state-subsidized health insurance for low-income residents,” Factcheck.org explained. An independent body — the Commonwealth Connector — not Romney, decided that abortions would be covered (a move required by two Massachusetts state supreme court rulings).
McCain also had the chutzpah to charge Romney with failing to verbally support Bush tax cuts that McCain himself actually voted against .
FactCheck.org concluded that on the whole John McCain’s portrayal of Romney’s record as governor of Massachusetts was “so distorted as to discredit McCain’s claim to be the candidate of ’straight talk.’”
St. McCain — distorting the record and misleading the public? If you listen to former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, that may not be as surprising as the branders want you to believe. In an unprecedentedly frank evaluation of a former GOP colleague. Sen. Santorum, who hasn’t endorsed a candidate, said McCain is “very, very dangerous for Republicans” on domestic issues.
“The bottom line is that I served 12 years with him, six years in the United States Senate,” he told WABC radio talk show host Mark Levin. “And almost at every turn on domestic policy, John McCain was not only against us, but leading the charge on the other side.”
Sen. McCain apparently had a nasty habit of leaving one impression in public on social issues like abortion and marriage, and another behind closed Senate doors, according to Santorum:
“That discussion is held in private, where you’re jostling and jockeying to get your legislation into the queue so that you can have your time on the floor to get something done. And I can tell you, when social-conservative issues were ever raised — whether it was marriage or abortion or a whole host of other issues — there were always the moderates who said: ‘No, no, no, we can’t. They’re divisive, divisive, divisive.’ And more often than not, John McCain was … with them.”
“That’s wrong,” Santorum added. “And that gives me an insight into what he would really be like if he were president of the United States.”
The next night on the Mark Levin show, another even more respected and distinguished conservative voice, Judge Robert Bork, called McCain a “liberal.”
Johnny, we hardly knew ye.
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The above post came from a Yahoo report and was not mine, but I thought it timely and important