Ladies and Gentlemen: Our Opponent

[Laura PourMeADrink]

FRED THOMPSON IS adding more big-name policy talent as his testing-the-waters committee continues to grow into a real presidential campaign. Among the new additions: Mark Esper, national security adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Joel Shin, a top policy staffer on Bush-Cheney 2000; and Elizabeth Cheney, a former top official in the State Department's Near East and South Asia department. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/764cbfmo.asp

Given the poll's margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points, those figures put Giuliani and Thompson in a statistical tie. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070612125205.vqhclksz&show_article=1

LOWLIGHTS OF FRED IN THE SENATE:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Fred_Thompson.htm
....Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad science. (Jun 2007)
....Appoint strict constructionist judges. (Jun 2007)
....Has never been pro-choice despite 1994 news reports. (Jun 2007)
....Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
....Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
....Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
....Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
....Voted NO on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001)
....Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
....Voted NO on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 1998)
....Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
....Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
....Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)
....Voted YES on Amendment to prohibit flag burning. (Dec 1995)
....Voted NO on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds. (Jul 1995)
....Voted YES on restricting rules on personal bankruptcy. (Jul 2001)
....Voted NO on $1.15 billion per year to continue the COPS program. (May 1999)
....Voted YES on limiting death penalty appeals. (Apr 1996)
....Voted YES on limiting product liability punitive damage awards. (Mar 1996)
....Voted YES on restricting class-action lawsuits. (Dec 1995)
....Voted YES on repealing federal speed limits. (Jun 1995)
....Solar system is warming, not earth. (Apr 2007)
....Voted YES on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
....Voted YES on terminating CAFE standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
....Voted YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling. (Apr 2000)
....Voted NO on ending discussion of CAFE fuel efficiency standards. (Sep 1999)
....Voted YES on defunding renewable and solar energy. (Jun 1999)
....Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository. (Apr 1997)
....Voted NO on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada. (Jul 2002)
....Voted NO on allowing patients to sue HMOs & collect punitive damages. (Jun 2001)
....Voted YES on funding GOP version of Medicare prescription drug benefit. (Apr 2001)
....Voted NO on including prescription drugs under Medicare. (Jun 2000)
....Voted YES on limiting self-employment health deduction. (Jul 1999)
....Voted NO on increasing tobacco restrictions. (Jun 1998)
....Voted YES on Medicare means-testing. (Jun 1997)
....Voted NO on medical savings acounts. (Apr 1996)
....I would do essentially what the president's doing in Iraq. (Jun 2007)
....Take any chance to not get run out of Iraq. (Jun 2007)
....Internationalizing war effort will not win the war. (Jun 2007)
....President must decide on war based on unclear evidence. (Jun 2007)
....Prophets of doom are wrong--we can't cut-and-run. (Jun 2007)
....Goal of Iraqi enemies is to demoralize us. (Jun 2007)
....Serious & painful international sanctions on nuclear Iran. (Jun 2007)
....Voted YES on authorizing use of military force against Iraq. (Oct 2002)
....Voted YES on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo. (May 1999)
....Voted NO on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo. (Mar 1999)
....Voted YES on ending the Bosnian arms embargo. (Jul 1995)
....Condemns anti-Muslim bigotry in name of anti-terrorism. (Oct 2001)
....Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. (Nov 1995)

more at link...

[illinoisprogressive]

1. what will the repukes do when they realize he is not Reagan from the dead?

[Cabcere]

4. Do you think they ever *will* realize it?

Let's face it, many of these people aren't exactly what you would call bright. :dunce:

[muntrv]

2. More of the same bushit.

[Hatalles]

3. I don't know...

I think Thompson would do about as well in the general election as Dick Cheney would do if he were to run. He can't win. I'm thinking the GOP candidate will be Romney.

[entanglement]

5. A little further to the right and he'd be Fred Mussolini

Corporatist, militarist, racist, sexist, homophobe, fundie bigot, anti-environment, anti-liberties -

PERFECT :puke:

[YOY]

6. That pic: It's 2007 Jackass...there are no more hippies

Punch me and see how many teeth you lose. That and discover that your turds can come in size 9 1/2 after I stick my foot in your ass.


:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Not that it matters - but that poster is a hoax off a site that

doesn't like him. Tell me how we're going to beat this booger.

[upi402]

7. "....I would do essentially what the president's doing in Iraq. (Jun 2007)"

I think his mouth is his own worst enemy.

[TwilightGardener]

8. He thinks that Valley Forge was an important battle in the Revolutionary War,

equating it to the Alamo. I guess none of his staff had the heart to tell him that Valley Forge was a winter training camp, not a battle. Can't wait for more of his drivel.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. I love that he JUST said it too. It wasn't an ignorant remark

from 2003 about how we had to take Saddam out (ala HRC). I don't even think the most rightwing idiots would make that remark now.

[BlooInBloo]

10. Hey! Your post isn't about his hot younger wife! Begone with you! :)

EDIT: Clarified subject.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. not that it matters - but who said anything about his wife?

[BlooInBloo]

13. That's what I said. Will clarify.