Thompson elaborates on conservative stand
The candidate's views: Punish doctors, not patients, for early abortions; rein in judges on gay marriage; deport illegal immigrants.
By Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times
LEMARS, IOWA — -- A day after touting his "100% record against abortion," Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said Friday that women should face no criminal penalties for having one during the first three months of pregnancy.
Authorities "can do whatever they want to with abortion doctors, as far as I'm concerned," the former Tennessee senator said. But "if it comes down to giving criminal sanctions to a 19-year-old girl and her mama, I'm against that."
Thompson offered new details of his views on several other topics as well during a swing across a conservative rural stretch of western Iowa.
Denouncing judges in Iowa, Massachusetts and other states for decisions opening the way to same-sex marriage, Thompson called for constitutional amendments to curb judges' power to do so.
"What we're seeing here is a totally judicially created problem," he told a crowd in Sioux City.
"You know how many states have affirmatively approved gay marriage? State legislatures? Zero."
(Continued here.)
By Michael Finnegan
Los Angeles Times
LEMARS, IOWA — -- A day after touting his "100% record against abortion," Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson said Friday that women should face no criminal penalties for having one during the first three months of pregnancy.
Authorities "can do whatever they want to with abortion doctors, as far as I'm concerned," the former Tennessee senator said. But "if it comes down to giving criminal sanctions to a 19-year-old girl and her mama, I'm against that."
Thompson offered new details of his views on several other topics as well during a swing across a conservative rural stretch of western Iowa.
Denouncing judges in Iowa, Massachusetts and other states for decisions opening the way to same-sex marriage, Thompson called for constitutional amendments to curb judges' power to do so.
"What we're seeing here is a totally judicially created problem," he told a crowd in Sioux City.
"You know how many states have affirmatively approved gay marriage? State legislatures? Zero."
(Continued here.)
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Abortion .. Gay Marriage ... did he forget Flag burning ? He's singing the song the choir wants to hear.
Here's a little tidbit from MoDowd's Sunday column :
Fred gave an interview to CNN’s John King as his bus rolled through Iowa.
“To what degree should the American people hold the president of the United States responsible for the fact that bin Laden is still at large six years later?” Mr. King asked.
“I think bin Laden is more of a symbolism than he is anything else,” Mr. Thompson drawled. “Bin Laden being in the mountains of Afghanistan or — or Pakistan is not as important as the fact that there’s probably Al Qaeda operatives inside the United States of America.”
Usually, you can only get that kind of exquisitely inane logic from the president. Who does Fred think is sending operatives or inspiring them to come?
Fred is not Ronnie; he’s warmed-over W. President Reagan always knew who the foe was.
Fred followed W.’s nutty lead of marginalizing Osama on a day when TV showed another creepy, fruitcake manifesto by the terrorist, who was wearing what seemed to be a fake beard left over from Woody Allen’s “Bananas” and bloviating on everything from the subprime mortgage crisis to the “woes” of global warming to a Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory to the wisdom of Noam Chomsky to the unwisdom of Richard Perle to the heartwarming news that Muslims have lived with Jews and not “incinerated them” to the need to “continue to escalate the killing and fighting” against American kids in Iraq.
Can we please get someone in charge who will stop whining that Osama is hiding in “harsh terrain,” hunt him down and blast him forward to the Stone Age?
Fred must have missed the news of the administration’s intelligence estimate in July deeming Al Qaeda rejuvenated and “a persistent and evolving terrorist threat” to Americans.
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I heard Thompson deliver a speech at the Reagan Library the day after the first Republican Presidential Candidates debate ... I was underwhelmed.
The fight now is for the nomination ... and Thompson may have some appeal ... but come November 2008, I live in fear that our choice will be between two unappealing candidates and there is no sure thing that the voters will be able to tell which one is worse.
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