Is our next President committed to victory in Iraq?
Will our next President stand up to Iran and North Korea?
Will our next President allow the United Nations dictate our foreign policy?
Will our next President fight for free markets leading to more affordable energy?
Will our next President secure our nation's borders and oppose amnesty?
Will our next President stand up for the right to life?
Will our next President protect our Second Amendment rights?
Will our next President pardon Scooter Libby?
Aside from his fame as an actor and Paul Harvey-guest host, Fred Thompson is the candidate who shares our values of limited government, economic freedom, and strong families. Like President Bush, he is resolute in defending America in the War on Terror. Unlike President Bush, he understands the importance of derailing the liberal agenda domestically.
Fred Thompson will not allow the Karl Roves and Mel Martinezes of the world triangulate our party by selling out our core principles for a favorable editorial in the New York Times or Washington Post once a year.
Fred Thompson is the candidate we can trust to make our case. Much like the Great Communicator, he can take provide our point of view over the heads of the media.
While I firmly believe Fred is as close to perfection we have seen in a Presidential candidate since Reagan, there are a few issues I personally differ with him on (or would like further clarification)
1. FAIRTAX – Fred Thompson has yet to formally endorse this legislation. As a firm advocate of the Fairtax, I strongly encourage Senator Thompson and all Presidential Candidates of both parties to support HR25.
Not only is it a great idea, but no other piece of legislation can do more to reduce government corruption and restore power to the states and the people.
To their credit the following candidates have signed on to the Fairtax: Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, and Mike Gravel. (As you have seen with the latter two of the aforementioned four, a we cannot base our votes solely on a candidate's HR25 position as a president has other responsibilities in addition to tax reform.) UPDATE: John McCain has recently said that he would sign the Fairtax into law if it reached his desk.
2. McCAIN-FEINGOLD – While in the Senate, Fred Thompson voted for this abomination of the First Amendment. I hope to see him take a stronger stand against it on the campaign trail.
3. TORT REFORM – Fred Thompson is not a strong advocate of federal legislation reforming the civil justice system supported by many in the tort reform movement. He opposed a couple of tort reform bills in the Senate because of his belief that the Federal Government should not be dictating caps on civil verdicts in the states. His opponents will try to paint him as a politician/trial lawyer in the mode of John Edwards, I beg to differ.
At a bare minimum, based on his record, Fred Thompson can be counted to appoint originalist judges (like Chief Justice John Roberts) that will reverse the trend of judicial activism run amok. These judges will stop many frivolous lawsuits in their tracks, restore constitutional supremacy over the law, and reign in decades of bad decisions that have rendered the 10th Amendment meaningless. (My definition of precedence – using one flawed ruling to justify the next)
Fred Thompson will appoint the kind of judges we want, which is more important in the long run than the two bills he has been criticized by some tort reformers for opposing.
Fred Thompson has voted for tort reform bills that did not violate his beliefs in limited national government.
In 1986, Ronald Reagan once signed a bad immigration bill; I am willing to look past this issue as someone who escorted John Roberts through the confirmation process wouldn't exactly be a trial lawyer's dream candidate.
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