Iowans for Fred Thompson

• Why the media thinks becoming the instant front runner is a weak entry into the race

  I have my own explanation for the hostility of the media toward Fred's candidacy- abject terror at the possibility that the Republicans might nominate a candidate who would be bid trouble for their pet, Hillary- but here is another analysis of how it is that the entry of a [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2007, 3:01pm EDT
  

• FDT overtakes Rudy for GOP national poll lead

  The Harris Poll has made it official: Fred Thompson has replaced Rudy Giuliani as the GOP front runner.
  
  32% of likely Republican primary voters say they favor Thompson, and 28% are for Giuliani. John McCain (11%) and Mitt Romney (9%) eat their dust.
  
  While Romney remains in [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2007, 3:24pm EDT
  

• On not "getting" Fred Thompson

  Here's an excellent answer- from TIME, no less!- to those who complain that FDT's entry into the race has been a disappointment [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2007, 3:19pm EDT
  

• Another look at the remark Fred didn't make after all about Terry Schaivo

  A commenter on my other blog pointed out- correctly- that in context, Fred Thompson's actual comments concerning the Terry Schaivo case referred to in the previous entry don't quite say what they were reported as saying.
  
  Thompson stated as a general principle that matters of law regarding [...]
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  Posted: September 15, 2007, 8:20pm EDT
  

• Fred is disasterously wrong on the Schaivo case

  Fred made a remark yesterday disturbs me deeply- deeply enough, very honestly, to shake my support for him.
  
  Thompson suggested that Congress overstepped itself when it intervened to try to prevent the court-ordered euthanasia-by-starvation of Terry Schaivo. He said that such matters are "best left to locals."
  
  [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2007, 3:45pm EDT
  

• He's in!

  Fred Thompson announced for President today. See the video here.
  
  He did a sort of preliminary announcement Wednesday night on Jay Leno.
  
  Next stop: victory in Iowa! [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2007, 2:20pm EDT
  

• A yawn of sheer terror

  ABC News reacts with the sarcasm and affected boredom of people very afraid for their darling, Hillary Clinton, at the prospect of Fred Thompson actually announcing for president this coming week. [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2007, 3:02pm EDT
  

• And now... the official announcement

  Fred Thompson will announce for President on September 6. [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2007, 10:53am EDT
  

• Since the straw poll...

  As predicted, Mitt Romney managed to pay for enough of his supporters to attend the Iowa Straw Poll, and enough buses to get them there, to walk away with a victory rendered essentially meaningless by the lack of serious competition. Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson- ranked first and second in [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2007, 6:10pm EDT
  

• A prediction on today's Iowa Straw Poll...

  Mitt Romney- the only major candidate contesting today's Ames Straw Poll- will win.
  
  Romney- who is rolling in dough and busing volunteers in from all over the state to vote after paying the $35 per voter registration fee that is the real purpose of this fundraising effort for the [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2007, 1:36pm EDT
  

• Dem lawyer hosts anti-Thompson smear site

  A common theme on this blog in recent weeks has been the obviously concerted effort by Leftists in the mainstream media to smear Fred Thompson through repeated hit pieces on non-issues: the sexist attacks on his wife, the shocking news that he did his job as Minority Counsel to the [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2007, 1:34pm EDT
  

• FDT will announce in August, skip Ames straw poll

  Latest word is that FDT's announcement will come in August- and that he'll skip the Ames straw poll.
  
  Good. No sense in giving Romney's organization and money a chance to buy anything more than an empty victory [...]
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  Posted: July 12, 2007, 5:22pm EDT
  

• A mudstorm of lies hits Fred Thompson

  A recent series of hit pieces from the liberal media reveal just how afraid the Left is of Fred Thompson.
  
  The LA Times broke a story yesterday alleging that Thompson lobbied for a pro-abortion group trying to reverse the Bush administration's "gag rule" against Federally-funded clinics advocating abortion. In [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2007, 5:29pm EDT
  

• Rasmussen: FDT, Hillary tied

  The latest Rasmussen poll shows Fred Thompson and Hillary Clinton tied in a hypothetical race for the White House, each with 45%. Five percent are undecided.
  
  All of the other GOP candidates tested against Hillary were competitive... but Mitt Romney (the only other Republican for whom results are [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2007, 3:08pm EDT
  

• Thompson's national lead over Giuliani grows

  A Rasmussen poll released today shows Fred Thompson increasing his first place standing among likely GOP primary voters by two points
  
  Thompson now leads second place rival Rudy Giuliani 27% to 24%. It should be remembered that both the increase and the lead itself are within the poll's [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2007, 3:19pm EDT
  

• Fred Thompson passes Giuliani in the latest Rasmussen Poll!

  Well, it's only one poll, and the margin is only one point. But according to the latest Rasmussen Poll, Fred Thompson has passed Rudy Giuliani and is now the front runner for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. And this two weeks before he even announces his candidacy!
  
  Thompson gets [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2007, 4:44pm EDT
  

• Thompson leaves McCain, Romney in the dust; within striking distance of Giuliani!

  As we get ready for Fred Thompson's appearance on Jay Leno tonight, a new Los Angeles Times- Bloomberg poll paints a picture of a race for the Republican nomination that's clearly breaking Thompson's way.
  
  A poll of likely GOP primary voters gives these results:
  
  

  Q: If the Republican [...]

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  Posted: June 12, 2007, 7:21pm EDT
  

• More evidence that FDT has displaced Romney in the top tier

  Despite the Romney crowd's crowing about their guy's early lead here in Iowa, yet another national poll has come out showing that Fred Thompson's entry into the race is major bad news for the former Massachusetts governor- and effectively drops Romney out of the first tier of GOP candidates.
  
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  Posted: June 09, 2007, 9:54pm EDT
  

• Fred Thompson: the next "Great Communicator'

  Well, Fred Thompson has started an exploratory committee and the hiring of staff; little if any doubt remains that he's going to make the race. Word is, BTW, that his announcement will finally take place on or about the Fourth of July.
  
  As I've watched the media cover the [...]
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  Posted: May 31, 2007, 4:06pm EDT
  

• Reading between the lines, FDT's looking good in Iowa

  Don't be deceived by that poll showing Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani essentially tied (within the margin of error) here in Iowa at somewhere between sixteen and twenty per cent, and Fred Thompson (as yet unannounced, unfunded, and unorganized) trailing at ten.
  
  The same poll [...]
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  Posted: May 26, 2007, 6:56pm EDT
  

• FDT responds to Michael Moore

  You may have heard that Michael Moore- the moonbat moviemaker who stages events in "documentaries" and then pretends that they were real, and who has never met an outlandish slander against America or its president he didn't like- has challenged Fred Thompson to a debate on healthcare.
  
  Thompson, you [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2007, 4:42pm EDT
  

• The real South Carolina debate winner wasn't there

  
  Well, that debate in South Carolina among all the Republican candidates (except the eventual nominee) was very interesting. The real winner seems- predictably- to be the man who wasn't there- Fred Thompson.
  
  I really enjoyed the best sound-bite of the night: former Arkansas [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2007, 4:04pm EDT
  

• 'Nuff said

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  Posted: April 28, 2007, 2:29pm EDT
  

• FDT wooing conservatives on the Hill

  Sure is looking like FDT is in the race... though one wonders whether his latest role will help much with Native Americans or Southerners!
  
  He's playing President Ulysses S. Grant in the movie version of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2007, 12:53pm EDT
  

• The leader in the AFA straw poll for 2008 is...

  ...Fred Thompson! [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2007, 3:47pm EDT
  

• FDT overtakes McCain for second place among likely primary voters!

  At least one poll last week had Fred Thompson challenging John McCain for second place in the 2008 GOP political derby. But now, a Bloomberg poll has FDT passing McCain and taking over second place.
  
  Since first place is occupied by RINO Rudy Giuliani, whose support among [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 12:05pm EDT
  

• Poll of GOP activists: FDT overwhelming favorite!

  For what it's worth, an overnight survey of GOP activists shows Fred Thompson with a commanding lead in the race for the 2008 nomination.
  
  Members of GOPUSA's Grassroots Survey Team give FDT 36% of the vote. In second place is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, with 18%. [...]
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  Posted: April 12, 2007, 11:34am EDT
  

• Leno on the Thompson candidacy

  
  
  HT: Reformed Chicks Blabbing [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 11:58am EDT
  

• Yes, Fred Thompson has lymphoma. BUT...

  ...it's the indolent kind, with a favorable prognosis. FDT is no longer in treatment. And lest we forget, John McCain has had melanoma (skin cancer), and Rudy Giuliani was prevented from running against Hillary Clinton for the Senate a few years ago by prostate cancer. In all three cases, health [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 11:47am EDT
  

• The Trib on FDT

  My hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, has a good article on FDT's credentials and candidacy here. [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2007, 11:43am EDT
  

• Now this, on the other hand, is a smear- or wishful thinking

  Whatever might be true of the Evangelicals for Mitt story, this cleverly disingenous piece of nonsense by Eric Dondero has got to be a deliberate smear.
  
  Dondero pretends that Thompson still holds the position on abortion he briefly held in the early 'Nineties- even going so far as [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2007, 12:05pm EDT
  

• A retraction- sort of- and an apology

  A while back, I wrote a couple of posts accusing Evangelicals for Mitt of bearing false witness against Fred Thompson for claiming that he had not been pro-life his entire career. It appears that I was the one bearing false witness.
  
  I've come across the actual text of [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2007, 11:36am EDT
  

• Thompson overtakes Romney, McCain in weekly fundraising

  While Romney supporters herald their candidates heretofore impressive fundraising (and Thompson skeptics point to his late start in fundraising), an interesting dynamic has emerged.
  
  Both Romney and McCain fundraising is drastically slowing down- and last week Fred Thompson was second only to Rudy Giuliani in the amount raised.
  [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2007, 4:37pm EDT
  

• Novak: FDT preparations for candidacy continue

  Robert Novak reports that all signs point to a Fred Thompson candidacy- one in the process of gathering strong support. [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2007, 4:32pm EDT
  

• North of the border

  They even see FDT's potential in Canada! [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2007, 12:04pm EDT
  

• Land: FDT and Christian conservatives a good fit

  One of the more thoughtful members of the Christian Right thinks FDT is exactly what members of the movement are looking for. [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2007, 11:44am EDT
  

• Plea agreement

  Great FDT cartoon over at Blogs for Thompson! [...]
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  Posted: April 04, 2007, 12:32pm EDT
  

• Great FDT video

  Here's a video from FDT's last Senate campaign that still is worth watching:
  
  
  HT: Coloradoans For Thompson [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2007, 12:47pm EDT
  

• New Rasmussen poll: FDT threatens McCain for second place nationally!

  The latest Rasmussen poll puts Fred Thompson in a neck-and-neck horserace with Arizona Sen. John McCain for second place in the national Republican presidential sweepstakes.
  
  Frontrunner Rudy Giuliani has twenty-six percent- his lowest total in seven weeks. McCain has sixteen percent, and Thompson, fourteen percent.
  
  Former House [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2007, 12:30pm EDT
  

• Novak: FDT 'for real'

  Columnist Robert Novak has acknowledged what is becoming increasingly clear: that Fred Thompson is a major player for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination, and in the eyes of 'sophisticated social conservatives,' the only conservative who can be nominated. [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2007, 12:25pm EDT
  

• FDT on 9/11

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  Posted: March 31, 2007, 2:27pm EDT
  

• Article VI Blog is at it again!

  The following post appeared today on the pro-Romney Article VI Blog- the same one which, by some system of logic hitherto unknown on this planet, the other day accused me of questioning the legitmacy of my own Christian faith, or the sincerity of the faith of the bloggers at Evangelicals [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2007, 5:23pm EDT
  

• And it isn't a penchant for common sense!

  Fred Thompson on what Charlie Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell, and anti-American terrorists have in common. [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2007, 5:14pm EDT
  

• Not just flirting

  Mary Akers of the New York Times writes that Fred Thompson is apparently doing more than merely flirting with a presidential candidacy. [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2007, 6:26pm EDT
  

• Mormon visitor misunderstands the Article VI Blog libel

  Article VI Blog's libelous and frankly inane accusation that I somehow challenge the sincerity of the religion of the authors of Evangelicals for Mitt when I suggest that repeating vague and unsubstantiated rumors about Sen. Thompson's history on the abortion issue is unworthy of their profession is apparently just [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2007, 5:25pm EDT
  

• New Gallup poll...

  ... with FDT included, for the first time!
  
  Here are the results:
  
  

  Rudy Giuliani 31% (44%)
  John McCain, 22% (20%)
  Fred Thompson 12% (n/a)
  Newt Gingrich 8%
  Mitt Romney 3%, (8%)
  Sam Brownback 3%

  
  
  As suggested below, Romney is losing ground fast. While most of Thompson's [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2007, 7:43pm EDT
  

• Sorting through all the Romney nonsense

  The Eighth Commandment.
  
  You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  
  What does this mean?--Answer:
  
  We should fear and love God so that we do not deceitfully belie, betray, slander, or defame our neighbor, but defend him,speak well of him, and explain his actions in the [...]

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  Posted: March 26, 2007, 4:31pm EDT
  

• The winner of the Georgia county straw polls...

  ...wasn't native son Newt Gingrich.
  
  It was Fred Thompson! [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2007, 4:29pm EDT
  

• Romney 'evangelicals' smear FDT abortion record

  It ill-becomes evangelical Christians (or Christians of any kind) to bear false witness, but Evangelicals for Mitt (a blog which apparently has no readily- accessible provision for reader comments!) is promoting the bald-faced lie that FDT was pro-choice in his first two Senate campaigns.
  
  The National Right to Life [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2007, 4:46pm EDT
  

• As only a rumor, FDT already running strong in Iowa and New Hampshire!

  No organization.
  
  No budget.
  
  No advertising.
  
  No name-recognition.
  
  No TV ads.
  
  Watersblogged!. Mainstream Iowan, etc.) either just now coming on board, or thinking about it.
  
  And already, Fred Thompson is running third in the Iowa caucueses!
  
  Rudy Giuliani (who will [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2007, 4:12pm EDT
  

• FDT's wife urges him to run!

  Prospective presidential candidates often predicate their plans upon the consent for and comfort of family members with the long and grueling process of campaigning for nomination and election- and presumably the even more demanding prospect of being the nation's First Family.
  
  This is apparently not a problem where [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2007, 3:38pm EDT
  

• FDT: The Republican who can win!

  Mark Alexander writes at Townhall.com that the Democrats fear Fred Thompson- and should! [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2007, 3:03pm EDT
  

• First Rasmussen Poll: Fred 44, Hillary 43!

  Fred Thompson hasn't even announced his candidacy, and already he's ahead of Hillary Clinton in the polls!
  
  Ok- one poll. And the result is actually a statistical dead heat. Further, the same poll shows FDT trailing Sen. Barak Obama by twelve points. But Obama's strength lies in his aura [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2007, 2:49pm EDT
  

• Our first campaign video!

  Mister Politics has a new FDT 2008 video ready for viewing here. [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2007, 1:07pm EDT
  

• Remember those Jack Bauer jokes?

  Well, it seems that we now have a list of interesting "facts" about Fred Thompson!.
  
  The complete list- some of which is just a bit overstated- can be found here. [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2007, 3:45pm EDT
  

• The take of a Democrat blog

  Capital Hill Blue chimes in on a potential FDT candidacy. [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2007, 3:42pm EDT
  

• Vote for Fred in the Magnolia Report straw poll...

  ...here! [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2007, 3:23pm EDT
  

• FDT speaks to the Mexican government on immigration

  And he has quite a bit to say. [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2007, 3:21pm EDT
  

• RCP on the FDT

  Interesting Real Clear Politics article on the Fred Thompson candidacy here. [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2007, 6:04pm EDT
  

• John Fund on FDT

  John Fund of the Wall Street Journal considers the potential Thompson candidacy, its prospects, and the degree to which it's already shaken up the race. [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2007, 5:20pm EDT
  

• Wamp: Thompson likely to run!

  U.S. Rep Zach Wamp (R-Tenn) says that a recent conversation with Fred Thompson has left him convinced that FDT is leaning toward running.
  
  Meanwhile, Wamp and fellow congressman John Duncan are organizing a formal committee to encourage FDT to throw his hat into the ring. [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2007, 4:46pm EDT
  

• Taking the next step: FDT PAC organized!

  It seems that Bill Frist is going beyond a simple endorsement!
  
  The surge continues... [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2007, 5:39pm EDT
  

• FDT on those fired U.S. attorneys

  Anybody interested in a sample of FDT's unique effectiveness as a spokesman for common sense in combating Democratic silliness need look no further than this commentary on the flap over the firing of those eight U.S. attorneys. [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2007, 1:48pm EDT
  

• 'Run, Fred, run!'

  Clarise Feldman at American Thinker blogs the reasons why she's uniquely impressed with FDT- and implores, "Run, Fred, run!"
  
  A response heard among Republicans all over the country since the Wallace interview Sunday! [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2007, 1:35pm EDT
  

• Sympathy for the Dev...er, for Nancy Pelosi

  Former Sen. Fred D. Thompson has told America in a radio commentary today that "Gandhi's way isn't America's way."
  
  Pinch-hitting for commentator Paul Harvey, Thompson expressed sympathy for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi- who, like President Bush, has recently had her personal privacy invaded by pacifist demonstrators.
  
  "What [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2007, 1:28pm EDT
  

• Frist endorses FDT; Watts and Graham respond to interview

  Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has endorsed fellow Tennessean Fred Thompson for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Frist is one of several GOP leaders (Bob Dole is also rumored to be among them) who has been urging FDT to enter the race.
  
  "Fred understands real people and [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2007, 1:08pm EDT
  

• Rusher (and Beckel) on a Thompson candidacy

  Interesting article here by former National Review publisher William Rusher on how FDT's interview with Chris Wallace Sunday "transforms" the race for the 2008 GOP nomination.
  
  Rusher writes:
  
  

  It is a major development because Thompson has so many undeniable qualifications for the nomination. First and foremost, he [...]

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  Posted: March 15, 2007, 12:56pm EDT
  

• Fox News on Sunday's interview

  Here is a story from Fox News on Sen. Thompson's interview with Chris Wallace on Sunday.
  
  Word is that influential Republican leaders are urging Thompson to seek the nomination because they think he'd be a stronger candidate than those currently in the field. Speculation is that, should he [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2007, 7:53pm EDT
  

• A snippet from Sunday

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  Posted: March 13, 2007, 7:04pm EDT
  

• Why Fred Thompson?

  Fred Thompson has been my first choice for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination ever since the fiasco surrounding Florida in 2000, when he emerged as by far the most cogent, articulate and persuasive of the many spokesmen for the Republican cause. It occured to me at the time that if [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2007, 1:12pm EDT