Your Daily Fred for Thursday, March 22, 2007, starts with a link to the audio of Fred Thompson's appearance on the Laura Ingram radio show yesterday, 14 minutes that have a lot of Republicans even more fired up than they already were about the possibility of the former Tennessee senator jumping into the race. You can find the link here.
Also today...
...The Weekly Standards asks, "If Fred Thompson were to become our next president, what would he be like? Where would he stand on the issues?" And then they try to answer based solely on his movie roles and dialog. Intermittently funny.
...Bruce Walker, writing at Intellectual Conservative, says Thompson is "the next Reagan" and lays out a list of reasons why Thompson will win the Republican nomination and the presidency "comfortably" over Hillary Clinton.
John R. Lott Jr. at National Review looks at GOP race front-runner Rudy Giuliani's record on Second Amendment rights and compares him with other candidates, including Thompson, on the issue.
Giuliani has rarely met a gun regulation he didn’t see as "reasonable and sensible." ... The one thing that Giuliani probably does have going for him is that, on the gun issue, his opponents are either even worse (John McCain) or possibly no better (Mitt Romney, who supports renewing the so-called “assault-weapons ban” and who signed into law draconian gun legislation while governor of Massachusetts). That would all change dramatically if former Senator Fred Thompson were to enter the race. Thompson has been rock solid on people’s right to defend themselves.
There's more...
...Boston alt-weekly The Phoenix discusses a number of possible entrants into the GOP presidential primary race, including Chuck Hagel, Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson. Here's part of what they had to say about Thompson:
If he gets into the race: It becomes a three-and-a-half-way race, with Romney behind the leaders and McCain suffering the most. Romney survives, but ironically only because another major candidate’s presence in the race further splits the vote in New Hampshire, making it likelier that Romney will win the primary he needs to win.
...Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells The Hill that Thompson's decision to run or not run would have no bearing on his own decision regarding a presidential race.
...Kenneth T. Walsh, chief White House correspondent for U.S. News, reports that the possibility that Thompson might run for president "has animated many conservative leaders who are unhappy with the GOP choices that exist now."
...Blogger MisUnderestimated reacts to Brit Hume and Carl Cameron discussing the Thompson buzz on Fox News.
Cameron said that even though he’s not formed an exploratory committee, nor has he started fund-raising, he said there are plenty of camps he’s heard of that woud jump ship lock-stock-and-barrel from where they were to get into the Fred Thompson camp. He also mentioned the 20,000+ signatures that Draft Fred Thompson has gathered in the last few days to urge him to run! You know, I’m not so sure that he needs all that much money; he’s got “it,” and there are so many of us out here who are hungry for a candidate like this. And if I’ve ever seen another Reagan, it IS Fred Thompson.
She's got video of the Hume/Cameron discussion.
...Here's another blogger saying may well toss her current choice, Mitt Romney, aside, if Thompson runs.
Thompson addressed global warming - on Pluto and Mars - on the Paul Harvey Show today.
Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.
... There's now a Coloradans For Fred Thompson blog.
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THE POSSIBLE RUN OF FORMER SENATOR FRED THOMPSON OF TENNESSEE, THAT I WOULD VOLUNTEER TO CHAMPAIGN FOR HIM IN THE STATE. HE IS THE KIND OF REPUBLICAN WE NEED TO BE OUR COMMANDER AND CHIEF. I SURE HOPE AND PRAY HE RUNS.
Posted by: DON IN VIRGINIA | March 22, 2007 10:21 AM | Permalink to Comment