Fred Thompson moving to the next level

It appears that Fred Thompson is getting closer to fully entering the Presidential race. In an email to supporters today Fred discussed what he is hearing as he travels the country and that the testing the waters effort has allowed him to lay a good foundation.

During this “testing the waters” effort we’ve undertaken, I’ve been saying the political waters feel pretty warm. It’s allowed us to start laying the foundation of a good team across the country and to keep up this national conversation we’ve been having. Now we’re going to take that conversation to a different level.

In early August Fred Supporters can look forward to weekly emails with news, and photos as Fred travels to country. In addition he alludes to some upcoming changes in his website. These are good signs for FredHeads as I think it shows that he is moving ever closer to getting into this race.

Ron Paul Supporters Attack Fred Thompson

Today in Houston a woman was removed from a hanger at Hobby Airport in Houston where she went to ask Fred Thompson about his assumed membership in Council on Foreign Relations. When Thomson attempted to answer this dingbat he was interrupted by this woman. She is presumably a Ron Paul supporter sent to heckle the soon to be Republican Presidential Candidate and current frontrunner.

Funny how this makes front page news yet the mobs of protesters that come to see other candidates, especially democratic ones, never makes the news.

The True Bush Legacy

As we review the postmortem of immigration bill going down in flames I start to feel bad for the President. It didn’t have to be this way; he could have stuck with Republican principles and come up with a tough border enforcement bill. I know the democrats would never have supported it but at least then he would have gone down defending the people that got him to where he is. What’s happened in the White House, who is advising the President to do this?

He has so upset the republican base that I think that conservatives will not support a middle of the road candidate in 2008. It just won’t happen, conservatives will insist on a President that will be tough on border security. It will revive the war on terror and our next President will need to take a tough line on terrorism. I believe this will help to remind the conservative democrat voters that their party is so far out on the fringe left that they can’t be trusted with national security.

When looking at it from that perspective you start to analyze the current candidates and it is clear that McCain is not only finished in this race but the voters of Arizona seem to be very upset with him and I am not certain that he could get reelected to the Senate in 2010. It’s clear that Rudy is not a choice that conservatives can live with, while he is strong on security he is pro choice and pro gun control things most Americans are not. The last is Romney, the former Governors’ greatest liability is that he will not be perceived as conservative simply because he was elected Governor of Massachusetts and the same people that have sent Ted Kennedy to the Senate for 45 years elected Romney and people don’t think that is conservative.
That only leaves Fred Thompson. For those of you supporting Huckabee, Tancredo, Hunter these are good guys, solid conservatives but let’s be serious. Even with the debate on immigration going on none of these guys are getting any traction in the polls. Fred Thompson is the clear choice here; much of the same movement that killed the immigration bill is the same movement that has basically drafted Fred Thompson to run because they don’t like the current candidates.

So the people have now been reinvigorated. Many of the people who were tired of the weak kneed republicans spending like drunken sailors and trying to get along with Stalinists like Pelosi and Reid didn’t vote and then made their voices heard now in the immigration debate. These people are ready to go vote today, give me a conservative that stands behind conservative principles and we’ll go vote for them today. This base is energized in a way that hasn’t been seen since 1994.

Perhaps one the greatest unintended consequences of the immigration bill will be the revival of conservatism and that may be the true Bush legacy.

Fred Thompson the New Frontrunner

An article in today’s Washington Post points to an internal memo in the Romney camp that makes the claim that because Romney is polling well in Iowa and New Hampshire that he should claim the title of frontrunner. This is wishful thinking on Romney’s part but let’s look at the logic of his campaign. Since Iowa and New Hampshire are first Romney is hoping that doing well in these early states will push other candidates out of the race and propel him to victory.

A couple of problems with the Romney campaigns line of thinking. First Iowa and New Hampshire are nearly irrelevant given that the big primary day of February 5 will do more to decide the nominee than Iowa and New Hampshire. Iowa with 41 delegates and New Hampshire with 24 were big players when you had months between those primaries and the rest of the states but with only a couple of weeks between them now it means that these two states are statistically irrelevant.

Romney also has a problem in that he isn’t doing well in South Carolina and Florida. The other issue is that nationally Romney can poll no better than third which I see as a huge problem given that he is supposedly out raising everyone in the Republican field. He has over spent in Iowa and New Hampshire and is basically throwing money away. To look for at Romney as the front runner is simply a delusion in the minds of the Romney camp.

You look at the true frontrunner in this race and Fred Thompson has jumped to the front of most of the credible polls nationally, he will easily carry the southern states something Romney won’t ever be able to do and Giuliani having pinned his hopes on Florida will soon be finding his support waning as people continue to hear Fred. As time goes on the Hillary machine attacks Fred and Fred’s poll numbers continue to climb. All the other republican candidates continue to drop in the polls while Fred continues to climb.

Romney won’t be able to overcome his greatest weakness, no not his religion, the fact that he is a Northeast Liberal. You can’t convince the conservatives in this country that the same people who have elected Ted Kennedy for the last 43 years are going to elect a true conservative to be governor of the most liberal state in the country. Nationally people don’t elect true liberals because the vast majority of people in this country know that liberalism is a failure and that the socialist agenda that they preach doesn’t work.

Executive Privilege Clinton vs. Bush

People seem to want to make a lot of President Bush’s decision to assert Executive Privilege when it comes to firing federal prosecutors. I guess perhaps we need to put this in context for the libs out there that either have selective memory or were in some other chemically induced state during the Clinton years.

First a comparison. Does the President have the power to fire congressional staff? Does the President have the power to fire lawyers that work for congressional committees? Does the President have the power to investigate when a congressional staffer or lawyer gets fired by a member of congress or a committee of congress? Answer, No he doesn’t. So why is it that congress thinks it has the power to investigate when the President fires people that work in the executive branch when it is clear that it doesn’t have that power?

With that in mind let us look back at the previous President and his history of asserting Executive Privilege. Since Mrs. Bill Clinton is running for President it is interesting to review the assertions made by her husband when he was President and it gives us an eye opening look at what we may be headed for in a potential Hillary administration.

Bill Clinton asserted some form of Privilege 15 times that I can find. Thanks to Alamo-Girl for her site on the Clinton Legacy.

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Fred Thompson and McCain-Feingold

I think most conservatives agree that McCain-Feingold is bad law and its limits on free speech were a setback for the country. Looking back five years after passage it’s clear that the law has not done what it was supposed to, as laws coming from Washington often don’t. It has sparked a fundraising machine in moveon.org which should be shut down by the IRS but probably won’t be. This was supposed to help get the money out of politics because it was going to limit candidates to only hard money donations and this was to help correct the fund raising abuses of the Clinton years where he took money from any foreign government, friend or foe alike, that would donate.

Well it may be taking some of the foreign money out directly but the reality is that the foreign money still comes in it just goes to these socialist groups controlled by Democratic Party dictator George Soros. The primary goal was to eliminate this problem of labor unions giving to democrats when the union members didn’t want their money to support democrats. In many respects I think Fred Thompson believed the ultimate McCain-Feingold law would leave the system set up so that individuals from any walk of life could donate up to a set amount to any political candidate they wanted to support. This way the dollars that fund politics can come from the grassroots, those of us that actually work for a living and we would have as much voice as the Hollywood elites that give to the Stalinist Libs that control the congress today but the limits would be the same.

Now I am not going to attempt to put words in Fred Thompson’s mouth and say that he intended this or meant to fix that but I would answer my critics on this issue simply by stating that the intention was to level the playing field and bring give the average people the same voice in politics as the big unions and the Hollywood elites. The final bill probably didn’t accomplish this and the FEC’s implementation of it was not what the framers of the bill intended. In the end admit that he made a mistake and challenge any other candidate to stand up and state that their record was flawless in terms of the legislation they supported.

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