Its a RED FRED AMERICA!! GO FRED GO!!

[quote] Fred Thompson
Qualifications

- Served on the US-China Economic Review Commission
- AEG Scholar specializing in Diplomatic Relations and Foreign Intelligence
- Special Counsel to both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations under President Reagan
- Chairman of the International Security Advisory Board currently; a high-level panel charged with evaluating long-term threats to U. S. security
- Member of the powerful Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over, among other things, international trade.
- Member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
- Member of the National Security Working Group, which observes and monitors executive branch negotiations with foreign governments.
- Member of the American Enterprise Institute for Policy Research, studies national security and intelligence, with a focus on China, North Korea, and Russia.
- Chairman of the Government Affairs Committee 1997-2001
- Ranking Republican Minority Member of the Government Affairs Committee 2001-2003
- Chairman of the Youth Violence Committee 1995-1997
- Chairman of the Senate Government Oversight Committee
- Foreign Relations Committee, 1995-96
- Member, Judiciary Committee, 1995-98
- Member, Constitution, Federalism and Property Rights, 1997-98
- Member, Technology, Terrorism and Gov’t. Information, 1995-98
- Member, Finance Committee, 1999-2002
- Finance subcommittees Member, International Trade, 1999-2002 Member, Taxation and Oversight, 1999-2002 Member, Social Security and Family Policy, 1999-2002 Member, Health Care, 1999-2002
- Earned “Restoring the Balance” Award from National Conference of State Legislatures; given annually to national policymakers committed to federalism and its impact on issues involving state legislators
- Recognized by Citizens Against Government Waste for his report documenting the federal government’s staggering levels of waste, abuse, and mismanagement. Thompson presented the report, which includes his recommendations for addressing those problems, to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mitch Daniels at a press conference in Washington. Report includes analysis of the four biggest challenges facing the federal government: workforce management, financial management, information technology management, and overlap and duplication. In addition, the report includes an agency-by-agency appendix citing examples of waste, fraud, and abuse. The report also contains a list of the “Top Ten” worst examples of mismanagement in the government. CAGW is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse in government.
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- Interest Group Ratings:
- National Abortion Reproductive Rights: 0
- US Chamber of Commerce: 100%
- ACLU: 11%
- American Conservative Union: 85%
- AFT: perfect 0
- League of Private Property Owners: 90%
- National Tax Limitation Committee: 97%
- National Taxpayers Union: 88%
- ADA (liberal): perfect score
- Supported Newt’s Contract with America 100% of the time
- Planned Parenthood 0%
- NARAL 0%

Important Proposals and Inclusions Introduced while in the Senate:
- Nuclear Proliferation Act
- Special Counsel Act
- Aviation Security Bill Amendment
- FY 1999 Omnibus Appropriations Bill
- Regulatory Right-To-Know Act
- Homeland Security Workforce Act
- Homeland Security Education Act
- The Thompson amendment in the Treasury-Postal Title (Section 646) of the
Consolidated Appropriations Bill
- Regulatory Improvement Act (S. 981)
- Thompson Amendment to the National Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism Act
- Thompson Amendment to the National Employee Savings and Trust Equity Act
- The Federal Emergency Procurement Flexibility Act
- The Federalism Accountability Act
- The Government Information Security Reform Act (GISRA)
- The Thompson Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act
- The Truth in Regulation Act [/quote]
http://fredthompsonpresidency.blogspot.com/2007/05/qualifications.html

While the other candidates were out there making promises they won’t remember a few days later…he was working behind the scenes with experts hammering out his white papers. http://www.fred08.com/Principles/PrinciplesSummary.aspx?View=WhitePapers

I’m STILL waiting to see what happened to the other candidates detailed plans on what they’ll do to implement their own ideas (or ahem…campaign promises that never see the light of day) They’ve all been running long enough…(much longer than Fred), so shouldn’t they be expected to have had SOME substance by now??

Also…it’s refreshing when a candidate actually backs up and keeps those campaign promises they go around making…something that Fred Thompson is respected for doing. If you really don’t want to stop the corruption going on in our government, then vote for whoever…Fred has shown the true leadership and it’s just your normal people that want better for their children/grandchildren that felt compelled to ask Fred to step up and lead our nation. He gave up alot to do a very thankless job and I know it means a great deal to me. People everywhere are giving to his campaign….most of them have never donated to ANYONE before!! He can win and it scares the media to death because he doesn’t play by their rules!! (they also say he got in “too late”…too late by exactly WHOSE standards?? No other race has ever started throwing away money as early as this one…he refused to play by their rules, which to me shows his leadership even more clearly.!!)

Fox News seems to pick up the losers to support. First it was Guilani, then Mitt; now Fred!

Fred’s record is horrible. He was a senator with nothing to show for a record. He was a big time lobbyist with his sons joining in. He supported the McCain Feingold bill etc. Fox seems to support him because he (they predict) could affect Huckabee’s surge in the polls.

The reality is that Fox has so lost its credibility that people are skeptical of anyone it endorses and tend to vote against anyone it supports!