Pot, Kettle. Kettle, Pot.

Thompson supported the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. He will never get my vote based on that alone.

RP = True Conservative

By TYSO on 10.17.07 7:59 am

Flip-floppin’ Freddie:

“Dumb as hell” according to Nixon.

Family values candidate means divorced with trophy wife.

Conservative values means Gucci loafers?

Washington outsider was Mr. Lobbyist?

Pro-life candidate lobbied for abortion group?

Behind in TN resulted in acting like a ruralite … even acquired pick up?

He’s got it all…well, except a clue.

By Gary Williams on 10.17.07 9:48 am

I have had enough of Republicans that talk like a conservative when running but govern like big spending liberals and nation builders.

By TYSO on 10.17.07 10:07 am

Well Gary, if you believe all those things about Fred, then heck, he’s right up your alley. I love it when you liberals try to be the barometer of values you don’t even believe in.

We’ll do our own policing, Gary. But don’t come on here with your drive by comments acting as if you’re bothered by his views. You aren’t Republican, you’re not conservative, and you’ll be shilling for candidates that make Fred look like an apostle.

By Terry on 10.17.07 12:12 pm

Subrosa/Tyso: Ru Paul is a conservative?

By Terry on 10.17.07 12:15 pm

You could almost swallow it if they would advocate for their candidate and say how they would be different. But as we all know their game plan is smear and discredit instead of putting up ideas and plans and people. Look how none of them have steped up to the plate to accept your challenge.

By the Rep. on 10.17.07 1:10 pm

Come on Terry, Join the Revolution. You know you want to.

By TYSM on 10.17.07 1:11 pm

What challenge?

By TYSM on 10.17.07 1:12 pm

How would Ron Paul be different? When a moderator asked the GOP candidates during a recent debate how they would cut spending. They all spoke in generalities. Ron Paul listed departments (Education, Commerce, Health and Human Services, etc). How’s that for putting up a plan?

By TYSM on 10.17.07 1:15 pm

What does Thompson believe in? Certainly not the freedom of speech. Which government programs does he want to eliminate? When does he plan on actually spelling out what a Thompson presidency would look like?

By TYSM on 10.17.07 1:29 pm

Actually Terry and “The Rep”…I’m not “smearing” only stating the facts; there is a difference. At this point, I like McCain thank you very much…although I’m open to several of the candidates. Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s time that independents spoke up. As I stated…these are just facts; you’re entitled to your own opinion, just not your own facts.

By Gary Williams on 10.17.07 2:58 pm

Credit to you.

By the Rep. on 10.17.07 3:31 pm

Of course Fred did support McCain in McCain fiengold. Was that a good decision or was he “clueless” then as well?

By the Rep. on 10.17.07 5:13 pm

I enjoy your blog Terry because you write from a conservative point of view. Same with the Rep. I never really mind opposing points of view—either when the writer takes issue with your posts or with one of my comments to a post. That is fair so long as it has a point to make.

However, lately I have noticed there are folks posting here who are anything but conservatives in thought. You have a semi-Socrates who never speaks in declarative sentences but chooses to pose his “points” in question form.

Then you have this GW fella who imagines all sorts of evil things are being thrown at him like God and the Bible and he rails against that but then tucks his tail and runs (after saying “oops”) to a different message to begin his assault again.

He says he is only stating “facts” not opinions and implies that we conservatives are just gonna have to live with them. Look at one of his “facts.”

“Conservative values means Gucci loafers?” He borrowed from semi-Socrates here, stylistically, but this is horse hockey. GW seems to be saying that a conservative isn’t allowed to be successful enough to buy nice shoes. .

Sorry, GW. Big strikeout there. Let me break it down to you this way. If Thompson were running as a PETA friendly, anti-animal-cruelty candidate and then wore Gucci’s, he would be a hypocrite. But there is nothing under the sun prohibiting a successful person in either party from wearing expensive leather shoes if they are not PETA nut cases.

You still don’t understand, do you? Let me try a little harder with an analogy. Let’s say you have a crusader on your side who sermonizes at every whistle stop that the citizenry is using too much energy and leaving too big a “carbon footprint” on the planet. He harangues us over and over again about being energy hogs but then one day someone points out that his home consumes 20 times the amount an average home consumes. Also, instead of flying coach on a commercial airlines to that next sermon he is scheduled to preach, he burns 20,000 gallons of jet fuel to get there in a chartered, private jet.

That, my friend, would be hypocrisy.

Until you show me where Thompson has spoken out against leather shoes, supported PETA causes, or broadsided successful people for their success, I won’t bother addressing your other points.

I mean, your “facts.”

By chowdog2 on 10.17.07 5:17 pm

Thompson is a Big Spender of our Tax money, supported the entitlements programs, supported More and Bigger Governement, so, explain to me, a member of the West Fayette County Republicans, How Fred is Conservative, please.

By mickey on 10.17.07 5:59 pm

ChowDog2 said:
“I won’t bother addressing your other points.”

Ah-shucks…that’s okay ’cause I never mentioned PETA or leather shoes, etc. I just find it amazing how easily duped some people are by an actor.

By Gary Williams on 10.18.07 9:31 am

Sorry, I can’t get over Fred “I’m not a conservative, but I play one on TV” Thompson being a part of the Contract with America, NAFTA, the Council on Foreign Relations and 20 years of lobbying. The republican party has tried this before – I am not buying it again.

By Eric Holcombe on 10.18.07 12:18 pm

I couldn’t agree more Eric…Flip-Floppin’ Freddie is the wrong choice.

By Gary Williams on 10.18.07 1:56 pm

Fred fades.
The new CNN poll by the Opinion Research Corporation released Tuesday shows Thompson’s support dropping — now at 19 percent, down from 27 percent in September.

By William on 10.21.07 1:27 am