[mavs1978]

backing fred thomspon for the presidential election. hes the man for the USA

[Willie Bee]

There's a lot to like about the guy, but there are a few points I just can't get past in terms of throwing him my support.

Anyone who says, "I would do essentially what the president's doing in Iraq," well, they're not going to rate high on my list since President Bush and his crew have absolutely mismanaged the whole Iraq affair. But what bothers me most is the man will say something like that -- And maybe I need to hear his definition of 'do essentially the same' -- and then follow that with this quote: "We went in there too light, wrong rules of engagement, wrong strategy, placed too much emphasis on just holding things in place while we built up the Iraqi army, took longer than we figured."



Like most (all?) politicians, he talks out of both sides of his mouth.

Check how this wishy-washy nature affected his voting record. In March 1999, he votes no on air strikes in Kosovo. Two months later, he votes yes to allow any and all necessary force in Kosovo.

Like I said, there are some things about him that I like, issues such as I believe if he had the only vote we'd have a much simpler federal tax structure, and I like that he opposes ANY amnesty on the immigration. But overall, he's a little too conservative for my tastes.

[RickySteve]

He scares the living shiit out of me. I'm moving to Croatia if he gets elected.

[isetcap]

Being scared of him is like being scared of an imaginary friend. He speaks with such obtuse generalities and feel-good speak that it's impossible to know what the hell he would really do if elected. For issues on which he does offer some input, I have little confidence that he recognizes the scope of such decisions. We've had 8 years of that and it's probably time to move on.

I think he'd be a perfect fit for Croatia, though.

[G. K. TEMUJIN]

Good Actor.
I do not trust him.
I hope RON PAUL WINS !!!!

[dante1]

Don't you find it hilarious how the D's get labeled as
Hollywood elitists but the R's nominate all the actors?
And I do mean actors.

[Willie Bee]

Originally Posted by isetcap

He speaks with such obtuse generalities and feel-good speak that it's impossible to know what the hell he would really do if elected.

Which is exactly why people are scared of Thompson, or any of the others that speak from both sides of their mouth or won't commit to one side of the fence or the other BEFORE they take office.

Reminds me of a friend of mine, who is black, and one particular political discussion we got into back in 1972. At the time I was working phone banks for the Nixon re-election campaign, and I asked my friend who he was going to vote for that year. He wasn't sure yet, but he told me he wished that George Wallace was running at the time. I thought he was joking, naturally, as I'd never heard a black say anything remotely positive about Wallace, but he was serious.

His reasoning was that if he was standing in the middle of the road and Wallace was steaming towards him behind the wheel of a big truck, he would know that Wallace was aiming straight for him. He figured he could jump out of the way at the last moment and avoid being run over. But if Nixon was driving down the same street, my friend said he would have no clue which way to jump or when because he never knew what direction Nixon might swerve.

[RonPaul2008]

Fred Thompson is just another politician. CFR member to boot.

Vote Ron Paul in 2008!

Originally Posted by mavs1978

backing fred thomspon for the presidential election. hes the man for the USA

[milwaukee mike]

how many times has fred thompson been to israel lately?
and also queen hillary?

i am only voting for someone that puts the u.s. first!
and that man is ron paul.

the one that hates forever wars against middle eastern CIVILIANS. the only one that wants us to quit raping, torturing, killing, and displacing millions of innocent people.

quite a sad state of affairs that he is the only candidate that agrees with the majority of the population.