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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Thompson and Gore
by Rich Galen
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FULL DISCLOSURE ALERT: The Lad is Deputy Campaign Manager for John McCain. I, therefore, have a rooting interest in the McCain campaign staying in business for as long as possible. Use that as a filter through which read the following; a brief chronology:

On March 11, former Senator and current actor Fred Thompson told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, upon being asked if he were "considering running for President in 2008:"

"I'm giving some thought to it. Going to leave the door open."

This past Friday night the Mullings Director of Standards & Practices and I were having dinner at our favorite restaurant, Landini's, in Old Town when it came to our attention that former Senator Fred Thompson was on premises and was sitting with Republican über-media-maven Alex Castellanos.

What's the big deal? How about this: CBS News characterized Castellanos as "a strategist for Mitt Romney."

Whoa! Check, please!

Then Monday afternoon I got a call from mega-reporter Susan Page of USA Today asking me what I thought of the just-released USA Today/Gallup poll which showed Thompson's "leaving the door open" had generated a level of support which had him at 12%.

I'm not that terrific at arithmetic, but I do know that polls tend to add up to 100% so if Thompson had gone from zero to 12 percent it had to come from somewhere.

Giuliani, it turns out. According to the table on the Gallup web page, three weeks ago the top Republicans were:

Giuliani - 44

McCain - 20

Gingrich - 9

Romney - 8

Tommy Thompson - 2

Brownback - 1

Fred Thompson was not even listed.

In the poll which was in the field last week the new lineup is:

Giuliani - 31 (-13)

McCain - 22 (+ 2)

Fred Thompson - 12 (+12)

Gingrich - 8 (- 1) Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Mar 30, 2007 - 8:08 PM EST
photogbill
Thanks for the compliment! I had/have more fears about Gore now than I had before. Something else that has not changed:

"He calls for more gun regulation, licensing and registration, as an aid to
confiscation
Of our firearms and more;
He favors cities' litigation, since he can't get legislation, to wreak financial
irritation on gun companies galore.
Vote for Bush and not for Gore."

The Dems' maneuvering to cram a socialist agenda down our throats should be a wake-up call; voting Dems are being betrayed by their own party. The richest members are mostly Democrat -- the richest one being Kerry -- and socialism is NOT about redistributing the wealth. That is a lie that socialists want the "masses" to believe but the truth is that socialism is all about **concentrating** the wealth -- and power -- into the hands of an elite few. Ayn Rand's **Atlas Shrugged** used about eight pages to describe the evils of a socialist lifestyle. Part of that agenda is to push the price of gasoline to FIVE bucks per gallon.
in order to make driving too expensive for any but the rich.

I recently learned that elimination of sulfur from Diesel fuel will eventually result in problems; sulfur provides lubrication so what will replace it? Acids of combustion have more to do with nitrogen than with sulfur; all fuels are burned in air which is 80% nitrogen so the result is the production of oxides of nitrogen which oxodoze further then dissolve in water to form nitric acid.

As Milton Friedman pointed out, "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
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Date: Mar 30, 2007 - 10:37 AM EST
jander
You are 100% right about abortion. Anyone who thinks abortion isn't murder is either lying or delusional. Unfortunately that genie was let out of the bottle and new legislation has no chance of getting it back in. If I thought it could I'd support it in a minute.

The only way to end abortion now is to take away the demand. That can only be accomplished by giving people hope for the future so they don't feel the need to murder their offspring.

Hope is all but gone in this country. We are living under the jackboot of oppression thanks to both major parties. Republicans and dems have no desire to give up their power.

People call libertarians naive for believing that individuals can make better decisions for themselves than the gov't can. But since the dawn of time people have always wanted the same thing. That is to be left alone so they can make decisions they think are best to create wealth so they can leave their children better off than they were. If that is naive then call me naive.

Repubs think gov't can legislate morality and dems think gov't can make better decisions than they can. In that context who is being naive?

But back to abortion. Having children is a way of providing for your future. If your future is so bleak due to outrageous taxes, laws and regulations then why have children? If you are so devoid of personal reponsibility due to gov't handouts then why have children?

Abortion would eventually die on its own when people have hope again. Hope can only be achieved by throwing off the yoke of government oppression. No new laws will end that oppression, only liberty can do that.

The same applies to drugs.
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