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Although very funny, I think this article was too harsh. Thompson wants to be president but I don't believe it is a dream of his. He is willing to be himself in interviews and to be vulnerable to looking uninterested. However, he is not uninterested, he is just more reserved and laid-back than the rest of the canidates. I like it!

First off, poor taste self promoting on other sites. Must be job review time for lamey.

Perhaps you would prefer to have a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader than someone who is serious about the issues at hand. Thompson is the only candidate who has had the guts to make policy stands. The rest have been arm chair fluff.

I want a leader. I don't need to be told I did a good job and am a good person. What I need is someone to be sober, truthful, and willing to say it as things are.

We have had enough smoke and mirrors.

Lane Filler responds: I do promote on other sites by spreading my URLs around, but very transparently. How else would people find my work, which I believe has merit and is worth reading.
As far as Thompson, he has no real campaign. He just isn't running for President in any meaningful sense. That doesn't make him a bad guy, or a good guy, it just makes him a guy nobody is going to vote for.

Whoever commented "Lame Lamey" and couldn't even leave their own name....

"someone who is serious about the issues at hand".

Are you kidding me!? In all the speaches I have heard, all of the articles I have read covering this man, I have not yet once even heard him even attempt to come up with any kind of numbers, ideas, philosophies, plans for what he would actually want to do as the leader of a nation of 300 MILLION people. I know Law and Order was popular, but he only had to fake his way through a few million viewers.

Someone who has no stance on Terri Schaivo, someone who can't come up with any better comments than "we just gotta stay the course" someone who in a PLANNED interview on Meet the Press, an interview that can really put someone out there, he merely spat out a few incomplete sentences without any actual coherent thought, idea, nothing. What are his campaign people doing all day. Obviously not talking about what the plan is, or how maybe he should have a clue about current events...If anyone could memorize some decent material to regurgitate in front of cameras, it should be him, and yet I have seen better Junior High Student Council speeches. He is and embarrassment to this process.

Thanks Laney for saying what all educated people are thinking.

Amazing. He really is the grumpy old guy next door yelling at the kids to keep off his lawn.

Is this the best we can do? Are we the same country who elected Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln? Because this interview alone should be enough to disqualify this guy for public office. This one interview alone.

And I pray, I literally pray that your first two commenters were paid Thompson operatives. It's scary to think that there are actually such servile Americans out there. But hey, lots of people voted for Bush. Twice even.

Thompson's spoken answer was, "No, I won't do that," but his eyes went even further, clearly stating, "Get the @#$% outta here with that mess."

What!? Fred not proud of his Council on Foreign Relations card?

What a poor hatchet job.

Instead of looking through wallets other than your own you should be researching on the net and finding out what Fred is talking about and not on a campaign stop.

No one else has tackled AND solved our Social Security deficit...he didn't wait until it was a crisis, THAT'S a leader. He knows you can't fight judicial activism with a Constitutional amendment but, he rightly outlines how to fix it which will work. He understands how to correct the illegal immigrant situation and he will follow it through.

Your laughable aspersion about his not knowing about the Schiavo case was mindnumbing idiocy at best...When you also have a daughter inwhich you have to make the same type of decision you let us know.

AND who is the moonbat who posted just before me?? A poster child for a prophylactic no doubt.


Lane Filler answers: Sure, his Social Security plan would have some merit if he didn'y claim (yesterday) that the revenue would have to be used to make up the massive general fund deficit his tax cuts will create. I do like "posetr child for a prophylactic," though.

This actually turned me to Fred. He is a straight-ahead guy who communicates well with the American people. Bush's policies would have gone over better if he had learned to communicate his ideas better with you and me.


Fred is seen here as a regular guy with ideas that resonate with the American people. He is the perfect combination of seeing every day Americans as "regular people" and seeing them as more intelligent than what the media makes them out to be.

To Fred, we are "regular" but still intelligent.

Very few in the media see us this way.


They see "regular" Americans as stupid or ignorant.



Fred sees "regular" Americans as the intelligent people we are.

Lane Filler responds: Liar, liar pants on fire. That video wouldn't turn a rotating disco ball to Fred. You are a Fred supporter trying to convince other folks that he's a "regular" guy. He is a guy whose candidacy consists of sniping at other candidates and fronting tax cuts (yesterday) that are going to eat up the benefits of his Social Security plan.

Lane,

The next time I need a liberal, sorry Progressive, to tell me who not to vote for in a Republican primary, I'll ask. In the meantime, chew on this. Cutting taxes is not stealing from the poor and allowing younger workers an opportunity to save for their own retirement is not stealing from government.

Critiquing anything during the opening credits is a disservice to the audiences and a sad commentary on the laziness and arrogance of this generation of journalists. (term used loosely)

Lane Filler responds: Nobody who knows me has ever called me a liberal. Progressive...maybe, once or twice...sorry, definitely, I've been called that. The taxpayers owe $8 trillion, paying it back is a conservative principal, not repaying it is not.

Yes, of course, there is Hillary Rotton Clinton to vote against.

You have no business going through someone's belongings. You need to grow up and listen to Fred Thompson. You might learn something.

Lane Filler responds: We went through his wallet together, Huckabee and I. Get help.

Your an Idiot you said this : Lane Filler responds: Liar, liar pants on fire. That video wouldn't turn a rotating disco ball to Fred. You are a Fred supporter trying to convince other folks that he's a "regular" guy. He is a guy whose candidacy consists of sniping at other candidates and fronting tax cuts (yesterday) that are going to eat up the benefits of his Social Security plan. What are you 12 ??? This is exactly why I can't take you serious YOU HATE FRED and reading your bias column states so great jounalism LMAO Idiot

They Said It: Thompson Social Security Plan Applauded as ‘Courageous,’ ‘Honest,’ and ‘Substantive’

Courage & Honesty

Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson’s plan to save Social Security and protect seniors, which he introduced Friday afternoon in a Washington, D.C., hotel, differs starkly from standard election year pablum on the subject in one key way: He’s actually treating voters like adults. (ABC, 11/9)

Thompson...is seeking to show he is willing to take on tough issues if elected in November 2008, telling a news conference in Washington he was the only candidate to offer an extensive Social Security plan. (Reuters, 11/10)

“You certainly have to admire his courage for putting this out,” said Alan Viard with the American Enterprise Institute. (Tennessean, 11/10)

Supporters contend that Thompson’s willingness to take on the so-called third rail of politics will impress voters. (Bloomberg, 11/10)

Conservative economic experts applauded Thompson for offering specifics on an issue considered to be politically dangerous. (Tennessean, 11/10)

“He’s not afraid to be brutally honest with the American people about the challenges that lie ahead,” said Representative Zach Wamp, a Tennessee Republican who is working to recruit supporters for Thompson. “People can tell the difference between a strong leader telling the truth and a weak leader talking politics.” (Bloomberg, 11/10)

Substance

[Thompson is] the first candidate of either party to offer a detailed proposal to fix the nation’s retirement system. (WP, 11/10)

The Republican candidate laid out a detailed, four-page proposal (WSJ, 11/10)

Mr. Thompson’s plan...was more specific than what the Bush White House put on the table when it sought to overhaul the system. It also varied substantially from the traditional conservative approach of focusing primarily on personal investment accounts. (NYT, 11/10)

Economist Jason Furman said Thompson deserves credit for offering a detailed plan to address the projected Social Security shortfall...(Bloomberg, 11/10)

In discussing policy, Thompson was in his element. (Politico, 11/9)

He’d prefer to talk about substance. (Politico, 11/9)

Thompson’s plan draws on ideas favored by conservatives: a reduction in benefits, rather than an increase in payroll taxes; and a shift toward private accounts, rather than government-provided payments. (WP, 11/10)

Rivals

[Thompson] ventured Friday into an area few rivals have tread: advocacy of a fundamental overhaul of Social Security. (WSJ, 11/10)

Although all of the presidential candidates have spoken, when asked, about the need to fix the Social Security system, none has offered such a detailed plan nor talked so eagerly and often about the issue. (WSJ, 11/10)

Among Republicans, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney have talked in general terms ... but none has offered a specific plan. (WP, 11/10)

Mr. Thompson is the only one of the Republicans running for the White House who has made Social Security a central theme of his campaign. (NYT, 11/10)

He is the only presidential candidate so far to make Social Security an anchor of his campaign. (WSJ, 11/10)

But with less than two months before the 2008 voting begins, candidates have generally been reluctant to confront the Social Security issue. (WP, 11/10)


Lane Filler responds: Yeah, it's too bad his proposed tax cuts eat all the revenue his Social Security plan creates.

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Saving and Protecting Social Security
A Plan to Ensure Retirement Security for All Americans
http://www.fred08.com/virtual/socialsecurity.aspx

Has anyone besides me stumbled upon a Fred Thompson story/site in the last seven or eight months? Have all 200 of the Fred 08 people moved on to Bob Barr already. Dont be quitters! I for one believe Fred can still Walk Hard! Write 'em in!

I said walk hard not cough hard Fred! I wonder if John McCains mom enjoyed Freds hauntingly detailed account of her sons time as a POW? Fred sure seemed to and it proves all of you wrong. Fred has not lost his tuch. http://www.236.com/video/2008/fred_thompson_clears_throat_8700.php

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