Thanks Dick
Posted by admin at 9/19/2007 8:28 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
Our readers know we aren't exactly excited about Fred Thompson and thanks to Dick Morris in his piece in The Hill today many of the reasons are neatly laid out. Take a look:
| He may be the tallest candidate in the race for president, but Fred Thompson is clearly in over his head! In both his fumbling pre-candidacy period and his hesitant, attenuated post-announcement campaign, he’s given the clear impression that that he is ill-informed, inarticulate, badly briefed and downright lazy. Consider the news his candidacy has generated: •He refuses to take a pledge not to raise taxes; •He lobbied for an abortion advocacy group before becoming a U.S. senator; •He employed his son in a no-show job for $170,000 for four years at his political action committee after leaving office; •As a lobbyist, he helped the attorney representing the Libyan terrorists who blew up Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, to fight requests to extradite them to the U.K. to stand trial; •His other lobbying clients included Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the leftist Haitian dictator who, but for a lack of oil, would have been the Hugo Chavez of the last generation; •He skipped and is skipping the first two debates of his presidential candidacy and said he was looking forward to attending the Oct. 14 New Hampshire debate — the one that was cancelled weeks ago; •He is taking this week off from presidential campaigning; •He does not know enough about the details of the Terry Schiavo case to comment.; •He is also unfamiliar with the proposal to lower soaring insurance premiums Floridians must pay for home storm coverage since the hurricanes; •He said that Iraqis were supporting us because of al Qaeda’s ban on smoking; •He’s run through three campaign managers and as many communications directors in just three months; •He fell short in the fundraising competition, coming up with only a net of $2.8 million by the end of July; •After leaving the Senate, he picked up his lobbying career by representing Equitas, an insurance company he helped dodge paying for asbestos/cancer claims; •After negative publicity about his comments suggesting that Cuban immigrants were potential suicide bombers, he blamed Hillary Clinton for causing the publicity by “releasing a statement that she made trying to capitalize on something when she knew better”; •He didn’t know enough about drilling in the Everglades to comment. Not bad for the first two weeks of a presidential campaign! |
We want Thompson to get the nomination about as much as we think Ron Paul deserves it. We've asked before and we're asking again - would someone please send us a real conservative?
Ron Paul in 2008
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