Republican White House hopeful calls for blockade of Iran FRED Thompson, the actor and former senator widely seen as the Republicans’ best hope for keeping the White House, called yesterday for a “blockade” of Iran.
The screen veteran, whose announcement as the eleventh contender for the Republican nomination is expected within days, also gave warning that […]
KNBC:
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson spoke about the upcoming presidential election Tuesday night on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” but he did not make an official announcement regarding his plans.
NBC11:
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson spoke about the upcoming presidential election Tuesday night on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” but he did not make an official announcement regarding his plans.
“We’ve formed a testing-the-waters committee,” Thompson told Leno. “I’ve never craved the job of president, but I want to do some things that only a […]
On Tuesday night’s edition of “Hannity & Colmes” Fred said he wants Roe V. Wade to be reversed:
Appearing on the “Hannity and Colmes” show on the Fox News channel, co-host Sean Hannity asked Thompson about his views on the key pro-life issue.
Thompson has come under some criticism from pro-life circles because he took an official […]
Warning: This is from a liberal editorial in the LA Times:
FORMER SEN. Fred D. Thompson plays a tough district attorney on “Law & Order,” but he sounds like a bleeding-heart liberal when he talks about I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who has been sentenced — justly — to […]
My friend Ms. Underestimated has the entire 30-minute interview one her site broken down in three-parts for your convenience.
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NBC:
One day after filing papers to form a committee moving him closer to a presidential run, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson went before Virginia Republicans, stressing American values and renewed vigilance against what he called “the forces of evil.”
He warned against a rising tide of fundamentalist radicals who he said were targeting America.
Tennessean:
Thompson, a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, has been coy about his intentions with audiences, but made clear in an interview that he plans to run.
“I can’t remember exactly the point that I said, ‘I’m going to do this,’ ” Thompson says, his 6-foot, 6-inch frame sprawled comfortably across a couch in a hotel suite. […]
From an interview with Chicago area radio station WGN this morning:
Former Sen. Fred Thompson inched closer to a potential presidential candidacy this morning in an interview on WGN radio in Chicago. But when host Steve Cochran asked him about all that Thompson “love” that exists for his entry into the race, the former Tennessee Republican […]
Fred on the immigration problem:
We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with…