As always, once a reasonable person fully researches the many issues Fred comments on immediately understand exactly what he is saying….and he’s right on the money.

The above drooling responses have yet to put any effort at all towards that goal because they live in denial. Wise-up and smell what you’re shovelin’ clowns.

Winghunter, I’m always willing to keep an opn mind and examine the facts. The main point in my above posting is that Fred does not have substance. So I thought, in response to your posting, I would go to Fred’s website and see what substance he has. First I wanted to see where he at least stood on the issues. I could not find any place where he lists his positions, except on one: under the link, “Principles” there is only one other link, “Federalism”. This is a long article in which Thompson gives his views on Federalism but it’s often not clear and there is not a lot in there about what he would do, other than put in place a law that would require federal agencies, when formulating policies, to respect states’ rights in accordance with the Constitution.

I could not find any links as to where he stands on issues and what he would do to further his causes (whatever they may be).

I thought I’d visit three other Presidential candidates’ websites and see if I could locate their beliefs on the issues. I went to Ron Paul’s, Obama’s and Hillary’s. In each case I was able to locate the page with their beliefs on the very first link I clicked on (I think it was the “Issues” link for all three). I assume that the other candidates also have their issues and beliefs on their websites.

What Thompson says is general enough that he doesn’t offend many people. As an example, (and I am not attributing this quote to Thompson) it’s like saying, “I support a reduction in crime” (which we can all agree with) but then not offering a plan on reducing it. I actually went to Thompson’s website to see what he said about crime and I couldn’t find anything.

There are lots of links on his website- a nice photo gallery and links to articles that Fred likes including one titled, “Thompson finds crowd to his liking” in a Florida paper. There’s also a link to “Ask Fred”. However you need to be a “Friend of Fred” to even view the comments. Seems like Bush, restricting access to certain people. Granted that the access is probably free but I don’t see why I have to become a member of “Friends of Fred” to see the comments that he leaves for his supporters He’ll probably release statistics that show he has “X” number of supporters signed up as “Friends of Fred”. I do not want to be counted as one of Fred’s supporters because I’m not.

So, after some research I still stand by my original point, that Thompson does not have any substance. But I’ll also add that Fred appears to be elitist because he only allows certain people full access to his website (Friends of Fred). Sounds more and more like Bush: folksy image, no substance but ultimately elitist.

Schiavo was about a despicable “husband” unwilling to sign-off his financial benefit to her parents who were not ready to say goodbye to their daughter. Why the chad counting idiots of Florida didn’t know about King Solomon or be able appreciate the concept on their own is, without question a local matter.

As always, once a reasonable person fully researches the many issues Fred comments on immediately understand exactly what he is saying….and he’s right on the money.

The above drooling responses have yet to put any effort at all towards that goal because they live in denial. Wise-up and smell what you’re shovelin’ clowns.

I’m not sure how long he can get away with this non-substance strategy. And I don’t know his debating skills. Personally I think he would be worse than Bush as President. The Republicans (not just Bush) reward loyalty and Thompson would need a lot of support from Republicans to get elected. As such Thompson would owe a lot of people a lot of favors that they would only be too glad to collect once Thompson is in the White House. We all know what happened when Bush rewarded key positions in government to his friends.

In reality, Fred knows this is a hot potato for the Republican party, that many thought the federal government should have stayed out of it and let the courts decide Ms. Schiavo’s fate.