I had a feeling it would happen in South Carolina: Fred Thompson came alive. All this talk since January 1st about Thompson not “wanting” the Presidency enough was obviously aimed at knocking him out of the race early, but I believe all the cheering for Fred during the Republican Debate in South Carolina on January 10th now makes it clear that he’s not going out easily or prematurely.
Fred Thompson took Mike Huckabee to task on his basic policies by showing very clearly that Governor Huckabee’s liberal foreign policy flies in the face of many of the core values of Ronald Reagan. Republicans love to compare themselves to Reagan because he was the most successful and forward thinking President that most of us have witnessed in our lifetimes. But all these candidates should beware of being too gratuitous with such name-dropping: Ronald Reagan is a tough act to follow.
Yet, it wasn’t the target of Fred’s ire early in the debate that really mattered to me nearly as much as the fact that Fred Thompson has the courage to step up and criticize, quite correctly, any of those candidates in the debate that thus far have ridden the wave of public opinion higher than he has. After all, they are riding higher for many of the wrong reasons. Fred Thompson should be riding that wave after South Carolina. Fred Thompson is the best man for the job of President of the United States of America that is currently in this race.
So, today I am making my stance official, finally. I am stating plainly that I endorse Fred Thompson for President of the United States of America.
There are many fundamental reasons why I like Fred Thompson. He is a proven statesman. He is unwavering in his core beliefs. He is unafraid to be himself and to stand his ground when confronted. He is unafraid to tell interviewers when they are asking lowbrow questions. He is unafraid to stand up and be heard and demand the time to state his case, much as he did during the South Carolina debate.
These attributes are those of a true leader, not just someone that is pantomiming one.
Fred Thompson understands foreign policy far better than a Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul. I’d wager he has a better understanding of the globe than even John McCain, who is so often given credit for outstanding foreign policy knowledge. One must only listen to a few of Fred Thompson’s online podcasts to get a clear and defined understanding of just how deeply he roots out the truth and how much wisdom he has accumulated during his years serving this nation.
This country is heading for very rough waters this year and into 2009 and well beyond. We had better be prepared to elect a man like Fred Thompson to steer the boat clear of the rocky shoals. The office of the Presidency is too often looked at during election times as a seat of power that sways domestic policy, but this is quite clearly not its chief role. The U.S. President is looked to by foreign powers as the world leader and this is his most critical role in the modern world. We can not, therefore, put a man or woman into the role of President that does not have a clear and reasoned view of the world and what threats we face. I firmly believe that Fred Thompson understands what faces us as a nation and a people, and that he has the capacity to learn more about the things that he may, as of this moment, not yet be fully aware of.
Please support Fred Thompson for President.
Thank you.
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You are right Henrik Raeder Clausen but you know what is said, once you start you always need more, in this case less is more or something like that. Excuse me, I am trying to think like an insane person, it’s harder than I thought. Michelle Malkin recently had a poll and Thompson/Romney won, Romney/Thompson came in second.
“This is a woman begging to be stoned…”
I thought she had been stoned for years, continously?
Anyway, her family is moving to declare her insane. I think that’s the most sensible thing I’ve heard for quite a while.
Back on the topic, Robert Spencer is evaluating the candidates with respect to Jihad. Mitt Romney gets what amounts to a ‘Fair’ rating or so.
R.Hartman,
Thanks for the info. What they say is always the same no matter the country no matter how many concessions any people or country make. I have always held that there are but a scattering of people globally who are able to grasp the fundamentals of American ideals. You seem to be one of these people so why don’t you just do like others are doing, apply for a visa, get on a plane, fly over here, but what ever you do, don’t do what many others do, don’t overstay your allotted time, got it? And yes I am familiar with Lionhearts plight, it is happening everywhere islamists are among westerners. Islam needs secrecy, it requires a death sentence for those who stray. Why the need for secrecy, why the requirement of death threats? I have a feeling that peace doesn’t mean what we think it means.
Here is a good site for info on the erosion of rights in the west.
Moron in action, Britney wants to convert to islam/have scientology marriage ceremony.
Imbecile. This is a woman begging to be stoned… with rocks.
Off topic, but important: http://ezralevant.com/
Transcription of Ezra Levant’s defense for the Alberta Human Rights Commission Interrogation on him publishing the Mohammed Cartoons.
Tgusa,
I know what you’re saying, and I do not disagree. Last Saturday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf had an article on a new Islamic movement in NL, Hizb ut-Tahrir. Some quotes:
We do not agree with freedom of speech, for we denounce democracy and What you need is a heavy bomb-attack
Nobody will take action against these movements, but try to say something half as bad towards Islam and you’re in trouble (seen the items on Lionheart?).
Now someone decided to email a response to these people, and received a reply from Bouchra Ismaili (Dutch), from Rotterdam’s local council for subdivision Charlois. It’s totally illiterate, so I can’t really bring myself to translate it, but it starts off with:
She then continues to call the writer a Satan lover, and actually states that he and his kind are the foreigners, not the immigrant muslims, and that they should convert to Islam. She rants on a bit about the writer being slave to the devil, and that she’ll leave judgement to
Guess for what Dutch political party this moslima is a representative? Only one choice really: PvdA, Partij van de Allahs, Labour Party. The Dutch are being sold out to Islam, by their very government. If it were up to me, this lady (cough) would be sent back to Morocco, covered in tar and feathers.
So we may have some differences in opinion, we’re fighting the same fight. And with you being American, it’s your vote. It’s your country, I merely want to try and go live there. I have no say over it, so I’ll have to trust the opinion of my fellow anti-jihadists.
Keep up the fight.
Connie,
The link you provided paints a slightly different picture than the site I looked at (ontheissues.org) where I definitely got a more limited set of stances this morning than now (different link? Other proxy?). Nevertheless, on economy it says het voted yes on prioritizing reduction of national debt over lower taxes. I did read he’s for lower taxes as well. But that priority is wrong: both issues are of at least equal importance, and the reduction of the national debt should come from reducing spending more than the tax reduction.
On drugs, my stance is simple. Like tobacco and alcohol, it should be legal. It’s like guns: whoever wants them get get them anyway, and anyone sensible enough to not want them is not going to want them all of a sudden because they’re legal (only the first part applies to the ‘guns’ remark
). But legalizing drugs will take away a whole branch of crime and its associated effects.
On healthcare: government should stay clear of health insurance and leave it to the insurance companies. The state doesn’t interfere with your car insurance, your house insurance or any other insurance. Why should they be allowed to interfere with health insurance, driving prices up while they’re at it? It’s my health, and I should be allowed to decide what I want to insure. And if I choose not to insure, I’ll either go bankrupt or don’t get medical attention.
If your uninsured house burns down, nobody is going to give you a new house. So if your uninsured health lets you down, why should you suddenly have to be given ‘new health’? Healthcare is NOT a right. It’s all about individual responsibility. If you have limited means and find it more important to have the latest SUV’s, TV sets or cellphones, as those are directly visible ‘values’ for money, but then leave no funds for contingency plans, that you may never need, it’s your choice, isn’t it? Choices have consequences. Tough. Take a gamble, win or lose. Simple like that.
So I’m not buying any of that “I am committed to a healthcare system that:” rhetoric. If he’s committed, he should stay well clear of any collective, government driven intervention, in anything. And that also includes education, culture, economy and all those other things governments usually thrive in. The #1 priority of the state, it’s only excuse for existing at all, is the protection of man’s individual rights, as laid down in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, from violation by others, domestic or foreign.
Wellfare should be left to private charity, which is much more capable of identifying and evicting looters and profiteurs than government ever will be. But looking at the other candidates, most ar worse, which is why I said he’s probably not too bad a choice. If he sticks to his promises, and that’s a big ‘if’ these days (the Dutch Labour Party, PvdA, broke ALL of its election promises, just to make sure it gets to stay in the governing coalition).
Right now our president and others are behaving like schizophrenics. On one hand he is confronting islamists, on the other hand he is allowing the countries he is confronting them in to impose islamic law, he refers to it as the rop. We will only see victory when we completely discredit that ideology. When we have succeeded in exposing it as the reprehensible anti everything/everyone dogma that it is most people will want nothing to do with it. Right now, the Pres is the number one enabler of the islamists and because their ideology and the policies or beliefs are, according to American law, unconstitutional and fundamentally in conflict with the Bill of Rights we will continue to lose rights and freedoms here in America. In this case 1+1 does equal 2.
You see, in order for the guvment to continue to allow these islamists to walk among us, they must enact protections. Protections is a strange way of putting it considering that they are the protected ones. That protection comes at a price, a price we are paying so that the enablers can continue to be enablers the islamists can continue to be islamists. The enablers among us put us all at risk and more and more often we are seeing them treat us as if we are islamists as well. Selling out the majority in an effort to protect the few. Yes in an effort to protect the islamists they have turned us all in to potential isalmists and are treating us all as the same. I resent it, it is having an effect on me that I don’t think these enablers understand, I feel as if I am living in a prison created by the islamists and promoted by the enablers.
Everywhere we go people are being searched, non muslim Americans mainly, every entertainment venue is on lockdown, politicians cannot go anywhere without a security detail resembling an armed football team. The powers that be have created this nightmare and the American people are the ones paying the price, in blood, treasure and loss of liberty, all this so that the enablers can stand up and say, it’s the rop. Everything that I have been told for decades is wrong, is apparently, right, at least that is the message I am getting. I feel as if I have had a hideous practical joke played on me, that I have been conned.
Even if you can’t vote at this time you can still influence the results by conversing and debating in and around your circle, you can have an effect if you so desire. I want a voter id card, if we have to show id to rent a video we should have to match id to ballots. Make no mistake, there is massive fraud going on and I for one am not willing to gamble on my vote not counting, me being disenfranchised, to protect the frauds as they vote more than once, cast illegal ballots etc. Oh, I don’t have five wives and therefore six votes, I only have one, or that’s what I have convinced myself that I have, more and more I’m not so sure.
For over thirty years a hole has been being dug here in America, it is now very deep. It will not be easy to crawl out of, it will take time and great effort on all of our parts. If we want our country back this is what we must do everyday in every way that each of us can. I know a little about the founding fathers as my ancestors fought along side of them, I listen to Ron Paul and in spite of a few good ideas I don’t see a reflection of them in most of what he says. But that’s just me and what do I know about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Go Fred!
“Consider Dr. Wafa Sultan, Walid Shoebat, Ibn Warraq, Aayan Hirsi Ali.”
I’m sure Fred Thompson has listened to and paid attention to each. He has, in fact, called Aayan Hirsi Ali a true heroine. If Fred Thompson has denounced CAIR, one must assume he has the same reasons the rest of us do; that he understands their true intentions.
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“Obviously, not being American, I do not have enough info on Thompson to judge on his track record. I did check ontheissues.org, and I’m not with Fred on Economics (lower taxes are a MUST, the national debt should be lowered by cutting on SPENDING) and drugs (he didn’t learn anything from the alcohol-ban in the Al Capone era), and I’m not with him on healthcare (healthcare is NOT a natural right).”
I’m not sure how you have misinterpreted Fred’s stance on the above issues. He is running on a platform of decreased spending and lower taxes. There is nothing on that website which says he believes healthcare is a natural right and in fact, is pro free market in regard to solutions to healthcare costs. As far as the drug issue goes, although there is certainly debate on it, I must agree with the need to keep drugs off the streets. One would be hard-pressed to find an addict who didn’t begin his or her addiction by smoking grass. Having been a 24/7 caregiver for a cancer patient who used Marinol, I am slightly more open-minded toward the use of medical marijuana. The biggest problem in that regard is physician abuse of such prescriptions.
Fred Thompson on the issues
Connie,
Duly noted. Consider Dr. Wafa Sultan, Walid Shoebat, Ibn Warraq, Aayan Hirsi Ali. I am not familiar with any political ambitions these folks have or don’t have, but they would be the first I would seek out for appropriate guidance on the Arab world.
BTW, I thought I posted a long hyperlinked comment two days ago - regarding Thompson’s continued ties to Abraham Spencer and it never showed up.
Having read the comments above, the points were covered anyway.
Hopefully this will give him momentum.
FH,
Off topic…
The past few months, our listenership at The Gathering Storm Radio Show has climbed.
Let me know if you’d like an interview.
I don’t trust Abraham and consequently I have doubts on Thomson. Not that it matters, as I don’t get any say in the matter anyway. But what candidates declare to be their views or their goal in election debates is utterly meaningless in itself, It only becomes meaningful if waht they claim now is consistent with their track recored over the past decade. Bush got the seat on promises he turned around 180 degrees once elected. The Patriot Act is wholly unconstitutional, and then some.
The only candidate I can see who has been consistent over more than a decade and does not feel he needs to tell you how you should live your life, but wants to restore individual responsibility that goes with individual freedom is Ron Paul. Problem I have with Paul is that he doesn’t seem to understand Jihad, which may jeopardise the entire West.
Having said that, so far I do not get the impression that any of the other candidates have an answer to Jihad, are prepared to eliminate Iran’s nuvclear capabilities while at the same time restoring individual freedom inside the US. So the choices will be between bad (all Democrats, topping off with criminal Hillary and dhimmy Obama, plus some Republicans), and not so bad. But anyone taking his Jihad advice from a potential taqiyya practitioner would not get my support.
Obviously, not being American, I do not have enough info on Thompson to judge on his track record. I did check ontheissues.org, and I’m not with Fred on Economics (lower taxes are a MUST, the national debt should be lowered by cutting on SPENDING) and drugs (he didn’t learn anything from the alcohol-ban in the Al Capone era), and I’m not with him on healthcare (healthcare is NOT a natural right).
On the other hand, I am with him on a lot of other issues, like guncontrol, taxcuts and immigration. But I do not see him abolishing the Patriot Act or Sarbanes-Oxley, which hurt America and the world every day. But he’s religious, and in NL we have bad experiences (especially at the moment) with religion-incited ruling.
Ending on a positive note, when comparing him to his opposition, he’s probably one of the not-too-bad choices, and I can see why you would support him. But like with Patricia, Abraham continues to make me feel a bit iffy.
Whether or not the voter gets to decide anything still will have to be seen. The irregularities in New Hampshire make the old Lenin quote spring to mind: “It’s not who votes that counts, its who counts the votes”.
Patricia, rather than pushing Debbie’s anti-Fred spiel in regard to Spencer Abraham, I challenge you both to come up with a better Arab American voice to act in an advisory role to any candidate. Debbie has done some great investigative work, however her obsession with Spencer Abraham is unwarranted and very much pre-911. Fred Thompson’s views in regarding CAIR and their Hamas-affiliation are well known. He is exceedingly strong and knowledgeable on the Islamist threat and the WOT, as well as the rebuilding of our military and intelligence to fight that threat. Thompson’s views on illegal immigration and the closing of our borders and end to sanctuary cities are also well known.
I think Fred is too little too late. I do not see him surging past McCain anytime soon.
Umph, Hillary+Obama? Didn’t think of that one yet, no further comment…
Now, I happen to be European and have no direct influence on this. Thompson would be great, but one ends easily in the game “But does he have a chance?” and move on from there.
Somehow, I consider it a subtle mistake to focus too much on the persons, too little on the issues. When issues take second stage, the elections become parodies, lige letting us choose our own dictators.
What we really need is not so much the person who has the same opinions as ourselves, but the one who’s most receptive to ours between the elections.
And then we need to raise awareness of important issues, like failing to understand Kosovo and Balkans, undue support of Turkey, incompetent meddling in the Middle East, meddling with Georgia, the disaster in Pakistan and other problems of confused interference.
Quite a few issues to tackle, ain’t there? But I hope you read me right, I’d like the US government to be less naïve towards Islamic rulers and more assertive in standing with its real friends. Getting focus a bit more on the issues and less on the persons would embarrass those who fall flat.
It’s healthy democracy to focus on principles and actual politics. Then the persons in charge will have to play catch-up to deal with our knowledge