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The Politico today has a story about why evangelical Christians – who are almost entirely registered Republicans – will be opposing Fred Thompson.

Don’t believe it.

If Fred Thompson is nominated to be the Republican candidate for President next year, you will not only see most of these so-called “conservative evangelicals” not oppose Fred Thompson, but will see them support him with their wallets and their prayers.

You will hear preachers – as much as they can get away with it – crying out from their pulpits to their congregations that it is their “good Christian duty” to vote for Thompson.

You will witness the supposed “leaders” of Christian virtue in America do an about-face and instruct their followers via websites and radio programs and “voter guides” that they “cannot turn away from their God-given task” by failing to support Fred Thompson… especially if Hillary Clinton is the Democrat nominee....

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Fred Thompson has said he’ll announce his presidential candidacy on September 6th.

Ummmm… isn’t the announcement of an announcement the logical equivalent of the announcement itself?

This is part of the reason why I’m so disgusted with modern politics: it’s become too much about pomp and pageantry and public bravura, and so very little about substance.

It’s like this: the President of the United States is a position of service. Those who fully comprehend that won’t play games with even candidacy for it. A real leader would simply say “Yes I’m a candidate”, without being a protracted prima donna about the matter....

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Here, read his latest essay, “The Fear Factor”.

When was the last time we had the opportunity to elect a man with an intellect on par with that of the Founding Fathers?

You’ll never see this kind of thought and eloquence from Hillary Clinton, Rudolph Giuliani, Fred Thompson, or any other empty suit that the party bigwigs and the mainstream press would rather you vote for. You certainly can’t say that you’ve ever seen this level of articulation from George W. Bush.

Just one more reason why in 2008 I’m voting for Ron Paul, or I’m voting for nobody....

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Something I haven’t let y’all in on nearly as much as I should have: I am a die-hard Bulldogs fan. When the girl of your dreams is a grad student at the University of Georgia – the school whose motto should be “Play Football or Die” – you tend to get caught up in the spirit of the place very quickly as you start making regular visits to Athens.

Seriously though: it’s a great university. Even though I’ll always be proud of my alma mater Elon, you can often find me wearing a Georgia Bulldogs t-shirt whenever I’m out. So I was especially glad to find that this very good article about presidential candidate Ron Paul was written by J. Patrick Rhamey for The Red and Black, the student newspaper at UGA …

What are our traditional values? Looking across history, they are most certainly not wire-tapping, secret prisons, and

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This is the “unabashed conservative” with the “great conservative record” that is supposed to be the only legitimate candidate for President?

(I’m not going to say here who exactly described Fred Thompson as that, only that the person in question is, well… the biggest sell-out and loon that I’ve ever seen on the Internet.)

From ABC News…

Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because “government’s got their hands in everything.”

This is precisely the reason why a lot of us aren’t being fooled into supporting Fred Thompson and are instead backing Ron Paul for President: because government really does have its hands in everything. Paul has a record for doing his best to remedy that situation. Fred Thompson just rolls over and lets it happen (and makes ...

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… but he has no problem commuting the sentence of buddy Scooter Libby for lying under oath.

Yet another post on this blog that will be tagged with “moral rot”.

(Wondering how long it will take for some Bush-bot to come out of the woodwork and jump flunky on me for daring to criticize the Chosen One(tm).)

EDIT 9:41 p.m. EST: And now elite-anointed quasi-candidate Fred Thompson is saying that “I am very happy for Scooter Libby.”

I spent eight years frustrated at the Clinton administration for getting away with this sort of thing. Only to watch the ensuing Republican administration do the same thing shamelessly.

Tell me again how it is that the two parties are supposed to be “different” from each other....

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Fred Thompson is supposed to officially announce he’s running for President next week. Right now he’s the darling of the Republican head honchos, and of a mainstream press that, as I have noted many times on this blog, is too lazy and more interested in maintaining the status quo than doing anything that might jeopardize that. And if you were to listen to them, you would believe that there is this “massive groundswell” of support for Fred Thompson out in the public.

Okay well…

Credit denvervoipguru on the Ron Paul Forums for finding this. It’s the current number of people using the website Meetup to “meet up” and coordinate activities promoting their favorite candidates.

Here are Fred Thompson’s “meetups”:

And here are Ron Paul’s “meetups”:

Fred Thompson has 72 Members. Ron Paul has 14,673. Fred Thompson has 5 cities represented on Meetup… whereas Ron Paul has 323. There ...

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“Rivals try to deflate F. Thompson campaign”

Why should this be so important?

Rivals have tried to “deflate” their political opponents since the dawn of time. And there’s been plenty of corporate-driven attempts lately to “deflate” candidates like Ron Paul. Especially like Ron Paul. Don’t they warrant the same level of concern?

A lot of people in the parties and the media would really like it if “their choice” Fred Thompson is, in the minds of the American people, made out to be an “unfair target” of other candidates. Didn’t we see enough of that when Bill Clinton was running for President?...

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From this article:

The former Senator supports low taxes and free trade. On May 13, 2007 he told the ABC radio audience that “[Globalization] works to our benefit. We innovate more and invest in that innovation better than anywhere else in the world. Same thing goes for services, which are increasingly driving our economy. Free trade and market economies have done more for freedom and prosperity than a central planner could ever dream and we’re the world’s best example of that.”

Thompson says he is for low taxes (having NO income tax would be a far better position however) and control of the border. But I’ve seen more than enough damage done by “globalization” over the past fifteen years to know to steer clear and away from anyone who thinks it’s supposed to be a virtue.

Didn’t anyone learn anything from NAFTA?...

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James Dobson is saying that possible presidential candidate Fred Thompson is not a Christian:

Focus on the Family founder James Dobson appeared to throw cold water on a possible presidential bid by former Sen. Fred Thompson while praising former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is also weighing a presidential run, in a phone interview Tuesday.

“Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for,” Dobson said of Thompson. “[But] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at least that’s my impression,” Dobson added, saying that such an impression would make it difficult for Thompson to connect with the Republican Party’s conservative Christian base and win the GOP nomination.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, took issue with Dobson’s characterization of the former Tennessee senator. “Thompson is indeed a Christian,” he said. “He was baptized into the Church of Christ.”

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