Sponsor |  Mustang-Kev | Jun 19, 2007 7:49pm | SUE
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Other issues he stands for are welcome here, also.
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The Issues and Where Senator Thompson Stands
Abortion
"I am prolife."- Fred Thompson
"Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science." - Fred Thompson
Terrorism
"I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere."- Fred Thompson
Gay Rights
"We ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights. " - Fred Thompson
Civil Unions
"That ought to be left up to the states. I personally do not think that that is a good idea, but I believe in many of these cases where there's real dispute in the country, these things are not going to be ever resolved. People are going to have different ideas. That's why we have states. We ought to give great leeway to states and not have the federal government and not have the Supreme Court of the United States making social policy that's contrary to the traditions of this country and changing that overnight. And that's what's happened in a lot of these areas. " - Fred Thompson
Gay Marriage
"Marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don't believe judges ought to come along and change that. " - Fred Thompson
Gun Control
"I'm against gun control generally. You know, you check my record. You'll find I'm pretty consistent on that issue... The court basically said the Constitution means what it says, and I agree with that."- Fred Thompson
Campaign Finance Reform
"I came from the outside to Congress. And it always seemed strange to me. We've got a situation where people could give politicians huge sums of money, which is the soft money situation at that time, and then come before those same politicians and ask them to pass legislation for them. I mean, you get thrown in jail for stuff like that in the real world. And so I always thought that there was some reasonable limitation that ought to be put on that, and you know, looking back on history, Barry Goldwater in his heyday felt the same thing. So that's not a non-conservative position, although I agree that a lot of people have interpreted it that way. " - Fred Thompson
Illegal Immigration
"[Immigration has become] an impossible situation to deal with. I mean, there's really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I'm concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that's why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary. I think most people feel disillusioned after 1986 when we had this deal offered to them before, and now we're insisting that, you know, we solve the security problem first, and then we'll talk about what to do with regard to other things." - Fred Thompson
Iraq and Afganistan
I would do essentially what the president's doing. I know it's not popular right now, but I think we have to look down the road and consider the consequences of where we are. We're the leader of the free world whether we like it or not. People are looking to us to test our resolve and see what we're willing to do in resolving the situation that we have there. People think that if we hadn't gone down there, things would have been lovely. If Saddam Hussein was still around today with his sons looking at Iran developing a nuclear capability, he undoubtedly would have reconstituted his nuclear capability. Things would be worse than what they are today. We've got to rectify the mistakes that we've made. We went in there too light, wrong rules of engagement, wrong strategy, placed too much emphasis on just holding things in place while we built up the Iraqi army, took longer than we figured. Wars are full of mistakes. You rectify things. I think we're doing that now. We're coming in with good people. We're coming in with a lot of different people. I know General Petraeus from when he was in Tennessee at Fort Campbell. He believes in the plan. He's convinced me that they can do the job. Why would we not take any chance, even though there's certainly no guarantees, to not be run out of that place? I mean, we've got to take that opportunity and give it a chance to work. - Fred Thompson
Foreign Oil Dependancy
We can't ever be totally independent of it, but we can do some things to make it a lot better. We're going to have to look at fuel emission standards and things of that nature, things that we don't like to look at. And things have got to be on the table, because we can't keep funding a part of the world that's causing us so much problems. - Fred Thompson
Foreign Policy
"It's not preordained that we're going to remain the strongest and freest nation in the history of the world. We've got to do some things well. We've got to do some things differently." - Fred Thompson |
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Sponsor | | fire75034 | Jun 20, 2007 11:35am | On foreign oil yes we can be independent of it and we will be. Fresh Ideas will prove that. We will be forced to become independent after new discoveries on land and at sea. Ethanol will be perfected and made independent of oil.
We are breaking through on technologies some so simple and others thinking outside the box.
Fred Thompson is something and he is playing outside the political spectrum. The others are already racing to the White House he is taking his time and when the engine starts get ready for a political storm.
I just hope he has no skeletons in his closet when the mud slinging starts. |
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|  |  520918 | Jun 20, 2007 6:22pm | 1.) Gee, all that stuff sounds sorta familiar :-)
-Oh man would he ever clobber the Hilldabeast. |
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Sponsor | | trevho | Jun 22, 2007 12:47am | Is it true that he is C.F.R? Wait I just read this and I quote
"Fred Thompson is a member of the CFR, which is the force behind the push for the North American Union and the new currency - the Amero. If you want to completely give up national sovereignty, vote for Fred Thompson."
So is this true? If so is this really what we support?
All I know about Fred is he was no tv. I liked him on tv he can get a message across. But what is his record? |
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| | | 520918 | Jun 22, 2007 9:17am | OOOOOooooooooh What a BEAUTIFUL Moooooooorning, Ooohh what a BEAUTIFUL DAY!
I've got a wonderful FEEEEEEEELING EVERY thing's GOING MY WAY!!!!!!!!! |
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Sponsor | | trevho | Jun 22, 2007 9:21am | | 7 I find it odd that I was just asked nicely to post on topic and a moderator like you fails to do that should we as a group follow your example? The lead by example theory, or we should just give you a pass? Is this a topic you are willing to discuss in a cogent manner or will more silly retorts be your M.O.? |
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Sponsor | | ir8-n8 | Jun 22, 2007 9:29am | ||||||||||||||||||||||reference link any quotes.
less trouble if there is a source to link to. |
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Sponsor | | trevho | Jun 22, 2007 9:37am | | Ok wilco |
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