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Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« on: September 05, 2007, 06:34:40 PM »
 He declared and talked about the war on Terror which he feels we have to finish we cannot aford to cut and run. Leno said some of the other R candidates were miffed Thompson did not join them for the debate to nite.  Thompson quipped its harder to get on the tonite show. Now that makes sense as I have not seen a debate yet as they have not been televised on the big three networks. Mostly cable coverage. Thompson on the other hand was able to spread his message to a huge vast audience and do it with out having to get only several seconds to do so. The guy is no dummy and I think he has a chance.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 03:55:49 AM »
One thing is for sure; now it begins and I hope Mr. Thompson is ready for the pounding he has in store from the left wing media.  He is no novice, but he's going to need a helmet and some of that new fangled armour if he's going to survive what is to come.  And he'd better not trust some of the buggers in his own party.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2007, 06:24:44 AM »
Hey the guy won the Senate Seat twice by 20% a state that was carried by Klinton so he is used to campaigning and fighting the odds. I like his attitude with what he said on the tonite show last night he said the folks running changed the rules on starting early because traditionally most do not declare they are running until after labor day at least that is what it used to be. He stated with the media the way it is and the internet it should not be difficult to get his message out even though he started later then the rest of the pack. On this I agree. It is for the candidates that they get a large war chest to play with. Thompson will get enough money to do what he has to do and getting booked on shows like the Tonite show is not going to hurt one bit the guy is smart like a fox something we need in a leader. He plans to campaign meeting the public and I am sure his messages will be heard in plenty of time. Plus he still has more name recognition than many of the others running. Hell I never heard of Ron Paul or Mitt Rummney or some of the others in this race until they decided to run. I find it interesting that McCain and Huckabee (some one else I never heard of before LOL) attacked Thompson last night for not showing up for the debates why should he? He was not declared yet now he will join the debates and the only reason they attacked him as they are ticked off he is ahead of them in the polls with out even running now that he is they are scared of him as has them beat with out even trying.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2007, 02:33:38 PM »
I like fred's wife hot ;D

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2007, 04:20:06 PM »
All I have to say is "FINALLY!"  I believe he is smarter than most give him credit for and you could see the concern in the other candidates faces.  All of that weak humor was just to disguise the fear they're feeling.  He was already tracking second place without officially announcing himself as a candidate.  Let's hope America is not blinded by the race/gender card when it comes time to cast the vote.

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2007, 04:59:56 PM »
I'm confused. You guys WANT Fred?
I consider him less awful than Rudy or Mitt, but that's about it.

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2007, 05:20:01 PM »
I'm confused. You guys WANT Fred?
I consider him less awful than Rudy or Mitt, but that's about it.


darn Tooting I support him he is PRO GUN, WIll NOT CUT AND RUN on the war issue and knows we need to do something about the immigrant situation. He is a Conservative and is what we need He also supports smaller Government. Whats not to like.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2007, 02:31:47 AM »
He's a neo-conservative statist, we've already suffered through almost 7 years of that in the White House.

He's more Pro-Government than Pro-Gun, just look at his voting record:
http://www.gunowners.org/pres08/thompson2.htm

He voted for, and strongly supports, the (anti)Patriot Act, The Lautenberg gun ban, the McCain Feingold free speech ban.....
In 1998, he voted against the Smith Amendment which prohibited the feds from using NICS records to register gun owners. He likes police and police states in case you hadn't noticed.
In 1999, he voted for a ban on semi-auto possession by teenagers.
If you want to resurrect the Third Reich, he's probably the best candidate you can vote for right now.

What do you want us to do in Iraq? We've been occupying Japan and Germany since 1945, we're still there, and I don't want to have our soldiers stuck in the sandbox 60 years from now. I supported the invasion, partly because I was still pissed at GHW Bush  for not finishing the job in 1990, but I can admit GHW Bush was right and I was wrong.
Now we're stuck in the quagmire with no easy way out. Pulling out may replicate the fall of Saigon, staying there just slowly gets worse day by day.

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2007, 03:31:27 AM »
OK, I just read the article & some of the footnotes & I see some areas of concern. I will study the footnotes this weekend.

But it also appears that the article is as vague as they say Mr. Thompson is, saying he is anti gun because of the wiretapping, yada, yada.

For now, if anyone can list a GUN BILL in which he voted anti-gun, I would appreciate it & please don't try to tell me how being against ice cream or what ever is anti gun.

Again, I will study all of the footnotes this weekend, thanks!!!



Alright, I am amending this post, item 13 among others bothers me. We need a more conservative candidate.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2007, 03:37:25 AM »
So Mitch and TM, Fred isn't perfect; who in this race is--Hitlary, Osama, RonPaul?  I'm going to hold back a little too, until things fill out a little, but I guarandamnty I won't be votin for no GD Dumbocratic.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2007, 04:06:55 AM »
Ah come on Magooch at least get the spelling right. It's dumocrap.  ;D

You guys might recall that from day one when Fred was mentioned I've been saying not for me. I do not trust him. I'm still looking the field over and kinda suspect that once again it's going to boil down not to who's the best but who's the least bad. I'm coming to the conclusion that picking the lesser of two evils is really no selection at all as evil is still evil.

I twice supported Bush thinking that while maybe not perfect he was far better than the two alternatives put up. Ya know these days I guess I'm not so sure of that. I'm lost all the respect I had for him he is NOT the man I thought he was.


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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2007, 04:58:46 AM »
I supported Bush II once, but six years ago he made beautiful speeches "they hate us for our freedoms and we aren't changing for them" then a month later he's pushing for us to give HIM our freedoms for safekeeping. No thanks, I voted for a non republicrat candidate in 2004.
I won't knowingly vote for right wing fascio-socialists any more than I'll vote for left wing Marxist-socialists. And I'm not convinced that Fred wouldn't just let the BATFE finish off our gun makers and dealers, and the job's over 80% completed under Bush II and Clinton I so we can't afford another mistake there.

You want a straight anti gun (not just general anti freedom) vote by Thompson?
What about the Lautenberg gun ban for 'domestic violence misdemeanors' and 'orders of protection'?
Thanks to Fred and friends, if somebody wants to ask a court for a restraining order against you, you're an instant 'gun criminal' if you have guns in your possession, and in my state, you don't get your day in court before the order is issued, you might not even find out until weeks later.

My niece did it to her husband last month. She filed on 8-3, he got it in the mail three weeks later. By the time he got the order, she had dumped their kid on the authorities, and now his kid is locked up and he's got a restraining order preventing him from even talking to wife or kid on the phone to find out what happened. If he could afford a lawyer, it's still take him a month or two to straighten it out to where he could legally call his kid on the phone. Tying something like that to the revocation of rights given to him by God and guaranteed by the Constitution is beyond silly. I'm not happy with the revocation of felon's rights, but now that we're skipping down the path of misdemeanors and unproven accusations, gov't is claiming that nobody has rights, the BOR is just a weak suggestion to gov't.

BTW, the only candidate that I don't want to see swinging from a rope for already taking an oath to uphold the Constitution and violating that oath is Dr. Ron Paul.

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2007, 06:22:15 AM »


Here's the way I see it...They are all crooks...Pick your poison...1 side will back door you...the other will just kick in your front door...and come on in... >:(

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2007, 09:37:55 AM »
Regan and B.Clinton both came in the race at the last min. sorta speak , keep your eyes open !
Maybe something good might show up !
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2007, 11:42:43 AM »
I am thankful this is not an election year because I have more free time, and I don't send nearly as much money to candidates in off-years.  This morning the dog and I took a walk over the tide flats.  The tides were wrong but we ran into a few ducks and the dog did very well.  Back at the house I built a fire to dry clothes and the dog, and for lunch we had sandwiches from the last of the opening day teal.  This afternoon one of my clients has scheduled a conference call, and with the speakerphone on mute, I may be able to load enough 12 GA for the PITA registered shoot tomorrow.  Life is not bad at all.

I believe that gun owners need to do much more than vote.  We need to keep the gun issue in the forefront.  Candidates will move in whatever direction brings them success, and it's our job to insure there's plenty of support and plenty of cover for candidates to support gun rights.  It's our job to connect gun rights and election success for elected officials; it's not their job.  If we don't participate then we will certainly be losers.  Yes, any candidate I support, if elected is bound to disappoint me on some issue or vote but in judging President Bush's performance we have to estimate where we might be if we had instead been under President Gore for the past 6 1/2 years or President Kerry for the last 3 1/2 years.  The only way for each of us to elect the perfect candidate is to file and run, and each of us has that option.  I let candidates know my issue is gun rights, and if a candidate sticks with me on that then I am philosophical about whatever else he/she does.

I am sure that next year at this time I will be helping at churches and gun clubs to register voters, going door-to-door for candidates, attending voter rallies, and writing checks to candidates for national and statewide office.  Democracy is not rule of the majority but rule of the majority of those who show up, and for gun owners, showing up entails much more than merely voting.  We have unprecedented freedom in American but we still have only 3 choices; we can sit on the sidelines and whine, we can wholeheartedly participate in the election process to help 2nd Amendment candidates actually be elected, or we can ourselves run for public office.  I will continue to choose the second of those 3 choices.  I hope you choose the 2nd or the 3rd because whining helps no one.  Thank you for your time.         

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2007, 02:04:41 PM »
I am getting to the point that I do not trust GOA on what they say >:( lately they have been on one hell of a smear campaign against the NRA which I feel is BS. They should be working with the NRA for our gun rights not attacking them.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2007, 03:54:30 AM »
You say you distrust the GOA. If you doubt what they say about congressional votes, you can always check the congressional record online, GOA gives dates.
I suspect you are talking about the controversy over the NRA/Brady/McCarthy NICS improvement bill. There are arguements for both sides. Even Jeff Knox sided with the NRA (proclaiming it to be more good than bad). I'm on the GOA/JPFO side. When NRA works with McCarthy and Helmke to craft legislation, they are giving an aura of respectability to McCarthy and Helmke that they didn't have before, and certainly don't deserve. Also, IMO, NICS needs to be gotten rid of, not enhanced. Constitutionally protected civil rights are not subject to prior restraints, and the NRA sponsored Brady Bill is certainly a prior restraint.

In general, the NRA has never been a pro-gun organization, except for a few years when Harlan Carter was the founding head of NRA-ILA, and later when Carter was Executive Vice President. In fact, the Cincinnati Reforms were primarily undertaken by a bunch of pro-gun directors (Neal Knox was a leader of this) to give Carter power when he was EVP. Now Wayne LaPierre is seemingly EVP for life, and the Cincinnati Reform is looking mighty short sighted, as Wayne holds near dictatorial power and a lot of pro-gunners are disappointed in how he uses it.

Here's just one small history lesson for you, pay close attention to the final paragraph:
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/7631/nraar031968p6eg7.gif


If Wayne isn't for gun rights, what does he stand for? I think this is what he's all about:
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2007, 05:32:07 AM »
Wayne L did two things wrong , as a leader he should not have used the " jack booted thugs " line , that showed short sightedness ! nor after saying it should he have withdrew it that showed weakness !
The NRA does do some good for gun owners , as much or more than anyone else , but it seems like big business now and the bottom line is the rule !
Come to think about it the more you look the more you realize , the GOVT. and THE NRA are going down the same path ! we elected them , and trusted them to do OUR business and they ain't getting it done like we want them to !
Maybe its time to get more involved !
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« Reply #18 on: September 08, 2007, 06:57:50 AM »
What I should have said was I do not trust the GOA's judgement not on the issues they are fighting. I know the Congressional issues are public record. The GOA trying to undermine the NRA for a power struggle helps no one.
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« Reply #19 on: September 08, 2007, 07:33:05 AM »
they are fighting for donation money !
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #20 on: September 08, 2007, 08:02:16 AM »
I Support a War  on Terror... if there is any.
I Do NOT Support a Police operation
Time to pull out and let them wipe their own asses

Sadly 2/3 of out returning Soldiers will never become Hunters, because the McCarthy / NRA bill will make it a Federal Felony for them to own guns.

Right now the Only candidate I can back is Ron Paul, and unless another option is added I don't forsee that being changed. Ron's Voting Record speaks for it's self. Nuff Said

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #21 on: September 08, 2007, 08:54:36 AM »
I didn't see the program.

Did Fred Thompson mention that he'd once been employed as a lobbyist for a pro abortion group?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/us/politics/07thompson.html?ex=1189396800&en=3bb742d783c219c3&ei=5070

The group, the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, hired Mr. Thompson in 1991, three years before he was elected to the Senate from Tennessee, as part of the group’s effort to overturn a ban on federally financed family planning clinics giving women information about abortion, according to the group’s board minutes and former president. The association’s president at the time, Judith DeSarno, said she was looking for a Republican lobbyist who could help find a compromise at a time when the first President George Bush was opposed to lifting the ban, put in place during the Reagan administration. Mr. Thompson, then a lobbyist at a prominent Washington law firm, fit the bill, she said.


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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #22 on: September 08, 2007, 09:33:57 AM »
Your not going to find ONE candidate that does not have some skeletons in their closet's the thing is finding one you can support that fits your qualifications the best. If Paul did not have his cut and run policy I would be more impressed with him. If it comes down to him and the democrats running as they are all liberals I would vote for him even though I disagree with some of his ideals. Thompson for now still gets my vote. 
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #23 on: September 08, 2007, 09:54:25 AM »
Being a former lobbyist,.. Fred Thompson has more skeletons in his closet than the Paris Catacombs.

He was also a lobbyist for the Teamsters pension fund gangsters and he lobbied for Jean Bertrand Baptiste,... the tyrant who ruled over Haiti.

Good read:

http://www.etherzone.com/2007/raim062507.shtml

FRED THOMPSON AND THE BURNING 'NECKLACE'

To look at Fred Thompson, the actor-cum-senator who now appears to be moving to the front of the GOP presidential pack, one would think that what you see is what you get – but, no. Peel back the pretty ordinary red-state Republican opinions – the war is a righteous one, free Scooter Libby – and we get to the hollow core at the center of his political being. That is, his prior career as a professional lobbyist – perhaps the one profession that is rated lower in the public's esteem than being a member of Congress.

I have to admit being shocked – and somewhat baffled – by his lobbying efforts on behalf of Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former president of Haiti, a committed leftist and anti-American demagogue of the sort currently represented by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.

Aristide, a former Roman Catholic priest with radical socialist beliefs, was elected president of Haiti in 1990 after a campaign marred by violence on the part of his supporters and featuring promises by Aristide that he would redistribute the nation's wealth to his constituency, i.e., the poorest of the poor. Early on, Aristide was characterizing the U.S. as "the great Satan." In September 1991, Aristide incited his followers to "necklace" his political opponents: "necklacing" is the practice of tying a tire around the victim's neck, filling it with gasoline, and then lighting it.

Death squads acting under the supervision of Aristide's top security aides roamed the streets of Haiti's cities and villages, murdering and beating anyone who dared speak out against the red terror. Aristide and his Lavalas Party tried to rig parliamentary elections, and when the Organization of American States called him on it, the Clinton administration, which had been sponsoring, supporting, and subsidizing him, suffered a major embarrassment.

This is the regime Thompson lobbied for.


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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #24 on: September 08, 2007, 09:58:39 AM »
Now you know why Thompson has been hiding out while the rest of the candidates engage in debate.

Now that he's officially in, it won't take long for his rivals to chase him into the background.

People only support Thompson because they don't know of his past.

They're about to find out.

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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #25 on: September 08, 2007, 10:14:58 AM »
Ya know the truly sad thing about politics is that those of us who would support a conservative are turned off by revelations of this nature about the Republicans vieing for out support but the liberals who would vote for the likes of Hillery or Barrack are not in the least phased by such from their folks, I guess they actually expect it. What a sad topsy turvy world we live in.

I'm still looking to see just who I might be able to support as a candidate for President. Another sad fact of life is that most likely whoever I do find that I can support won't make it past the primaries so that in the end it will once again be a choice of the lesser of two gross evils or a third party vote for someone who stands not a snowball's chance in hell of winning and for whom a vote just really means assuring the dumocrap wins.

Damn I'm glad I'm an old fart with not so many years of life left to put up with this. I feel for those who are still young and have their whole lives ahead of them in this mess folks of my generation and those on each side of my generation have left them.


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« Reply #26 on: September 08, 2007, 10:30:11 AM »
OK since he was a  Lawyer which  most politicians that are have some shakey past it goes with the territory. Lawyers and Yes Actors take on jobs that may not go with what their personal lives agree with. What I am trying to say is Lawyers take jobs that the average guy would not touch with a ten foot pole. That is whta Lawyers do.  I suppose lobbiest goes in with the lawyer bit. Like I said they ALL have Skeletons the thing is the media and now with the internet folks know more about them than in the past. Now we know about our past presidents what Skeletons they had and they had some dandies. What we know about JFK now I doubt if that had came out they would not be calling it Camelot. Like I said you pick your choice you think will do what you want and go for it. I am sure Paul has as many Skeletons as the rest of the pack wether they come out or not is an other factor. I doubt when Kerry ran  he ever thought his anti war protesting past would catch up with him or his medal debacle or his miliary past that was suspect.  No one is digging dirt on Paul yet as he is not catching the attention of the press yet. IF he starts to become a front runner that could change. If I would not vote for some one because they were not a lawyer I would not be voting much seems like most politicians have that in their background.
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Re: Fred Thompson declares tonite on the Tonite Show.
« Reply #27 on: September 08, 2007, 11:52:16 AM »
I am sure Paul has as many Skeletons as the rest of the pack

If you can find any, you get back with me.

He's a Christian who served 5 years as a flight surgeon in the air force and is an obstetrics physician who has delivered over 4000 children,.... while your buddy Fred Thompson was out talking money to help get them aborted.


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« Reply #28 on: September 08, 2007, 11:56:06 AM »
Here's Ron Paul's biography

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/about/

Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535” on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 17 grandchildren.

While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. In 1976, he was one of only four Republican congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan for president.

During that time, Congressman Paul served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.

Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th congressional district of Texas. He presently serves on the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.

Congressman Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another colleague observed, “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”

 

Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.




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« Reply #29 on: September 08, 2007, 02:44:31 PM »
I am sure Paul has as many Skeletons as the rest of the pack

If you can find any, you get back with me.

He's a Christian who served 5 years as a flight surgeon in the air force and is an obstetrics physician who has delivered over 4000 children,.... while your buddy Fred Thompson was out talking money to help get them aborted.



That hardly nominates him for Sainthood we have all heard of Christians who where less then perfect and comitted crimes and sins against their fellow man even clergy.  Same thing with Doctors there has been more than a few that committed crimes against their fellow man. I am not saying he did anything wrong and I will not waste my time looking either as I really do not care  but who knows what could be in his past these days with Politics it does not take much of a scandal  to change things around. I do not have to look if there is any dirt the press will root it out. If he is clean more power to him. As far as Thompson goes he is smart enough to know his past will be under a magnifying glass expecially after the last few elections so if he thinks his record will not hurt him why should I worry about it.
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