Fred Thompson vows to kill Castro if elected -

[Ghost in the Machine]

GOP Debate Excerpts
Published: 12/9/07, 10:45 PM EDT

By The Associated Press
(AP) - Some excerpts from Sunday's debate for Spanish-language audiences between Republican presidential hopefuls. Tom Tancredo, a long-shot candidate who has made a tough stance on immigration the centerpiece of his campaign, refused to attend.


FRED THOMPSON

_On how he would deal with Cuban President Fidel Castro, who has been in power during nine presidencies: "I'm going to make sure that he didn't survive 10 U.S. presidents. Castro is unique in many respects. He represents the only non-democratic, at least, elected government in the hemisphere. He is uniquely brutal. He is still tyrannizing his own people. He lures the vulnerable and the naive Americans down there and puts on shows for them and they come back and do his propaganda. There are not many people who can pull that sort of thing off. He's obviously in bad health. That situation, probably, is in God's hands. He will probably be succeeded by someone who's no better than him, and that is Raul. And we should treat Raul with the same contempt that we show Castro, including keeping the embargo on Cuba."

http://www.att.net/s/editorial.dll?bfromind=272&eeid=55...

[Bicoastal]

1. I'm GOING to make sure that he DIDN'T survive 10 U.S. presidents?

How the hell do you insure something that already happened?

Look like ol' Fred has inherited George W."Is our Children Learning?" Bush's gift of gab and tenuous grasp of English grammar.

[Gullvann]

26. My of my.

America us such a weird place. You give us the best and the worst....

[Gullvann]

27. And for the record, I am no friend of Castro.

Dictators tend to annoy me.

[eauclaireliberal]

2. Yap, yap, yap

These turds have been running that b.s. before I was even born. Now if you will excuse me, I have to....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[JVS]

3. Didn't Al Franken make the same promise wrt hussein in "why not me"?

[NV Whino]

4. Oh geez, Fred

give it up awready.

[Swamp Rat]

5. And to eat all the Cuban babies.

[Imagevision]

6. Quite obviously Fidel will have no probs from Thompson who is living on borrowed time now...

[Lasher]

7. This is from The Onion, right?

Is Thompson really that doofy?

[Selatius]

8. I want to see an old-fashioned GUN DUEL!

If Fred wants to be absurd, then he should challenge Castro to a gun duel in Havana.

[MrSlayer]

9. These people are all fucking crazy.

It's so hard for me to believe that anyone we throw up angainst these guys wouldn't win in a landslide. But the reality somehow is that it will probably be tight to the wire and one of them might actually win or "win" as Chimp has done twice.

[Richard Steele]

10. Thompson's "Campaign HQ" must be in a secret bunker buried deep in NINETEEN SEVENTY-NINE!

Does this clueless excuse for a human/monkfish hybrid
have ANYTHING to say that's less than 20 years past RELEVANT?

It's just sad that he's wandering around freely-
clearly, if he had any grandkids who cared about him,
he wouldn't be.

[Downtown Hound]

11. Looks like Grandpa's been hitting the meds again

Hey Fred, stick of little bit of what you've been knocking back in Fidel's cigar and he'll probably kick it right there.

[SoCalDem]

12. What a brave hunkahunkaburnin' he-man he is

Promises to kill an elderly, frail old man on his death bed..

Why do I have an image of Fred all decked out in battle gear..with a pillow in his hands..as he approaches a sleeping Fidel?

[BlueStater]

13. Hasn't he been in power for ten presidencies?

He came to power in 1959 when Eisenhower was president.

1) Eisenhower
2) Kennedy
3) Johnson
4) Nixon
5) Ford
6) Carter
7) Reagan
8) Poppy
9) Clinton
10) Chimpy

That's, er, ten right?

[KamaAina]

19. Maybe, on some level, even Deputy Dawg recognizes that Chimpy isn't legitimate

[silverojo]

14. Pigs vow to fly if Fred Thompson is elected

[Ghost in the Machine]

15. Kick

[Booster]

16. Between Fred & Castro, I'm putting my money on Castro.

[Tejas]

37. good luck on finding a sucker to bet against you

Don't expect a large payout if you do. Castro has outlasted too many.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Well, guessing by Thompson's poll numbers

Castro should be able to sleep well tonight.

[Perry Logan]

18. Republicans like to pretend they have balls.

[loser_user]

30. Only one close I have seen

was Ron Paul, and I LOATHE him. Getting booed over his Castro remarks when they actually make sense.

[Beerboy]

20. There's a big surprise, coming from the

"national security" GOP. After all, if the government sez Cuba orchestrated 9-11, the terrorists will take over America if we don't assassinate an 80 year old man!

[KansDem]

21. Mental institution, Fred?

Might be something you ought to think about.

[spanone]

22. desperate politicians say stupid things....fred can't help himself

[La Lioness Priyanka]

23. if we elected fred thompson castro may die from laughing at us.

[gateley]

24. Castro has nothing to worry about. nt

[indie_voter]

25. loon. n/t

[HERVEPA]

28. Not to defend him in the least, but

Isn't it possible he is saying "will not survive politically"?

[Tejas]

36. Seems it may be a crime if

he were saying otherwise. In essence, to say "if the opportunity (elected) arises in the future to have Castro killed, I intend/will do so" is bound to be highly illegal.

That said, I agree with your suggestion as to what he really meant. He'd have to be pretty far off his meds to say he plans to kill a foreign leader if elected.

Point to ponder though, what efforts (if any) has he made in the past concerning Castro? Sounds like just more pandering.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

42. PLEASE STOP MAKING SENSE!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. To all my gun nut constituency, I promise to kill sump'um for ye

Fydell Castruh or sump'um like that there.

[MonkeyFunk]

31. I think Castro can sleep safely tonight

Fred ain't getting elected.

[Judi Lynn]

32. I'd come close to killing myself if Fred Thompson got elected.

Don't think our country can withstand getting that much more idiotic.

[lumberjack_jeff]

33. Fuckin' morons.

I swear to God, they put something in our water.

How can a candidate believe that gibberish like this will *gain* him votes?

[book_worm]

34. Good Grief what has Castro done to the US since the Cuban Missile Crisis?

and besides let nature take its course he's in bad health and up in years.

[Judi Lynn]

39. It's a shame so many people never make the connection between the Missile Crisis,

Cuba's turning to Russia for protection, and the previous invasion from the U.S. in the Bay of Pigs.

Russia secured a promise from the U.S. to never officially invade Cuba, ever again. I don't think anyone can expect the current pResident to honor that promise, however!

People just won't take the time to think! The Missile Crisis was a result of Cuba's fear of being invaded again.

[marmar]

35. Fred the terrorist?

We've already seen what happens when a bad actor becomes president, Fred. That was quite enough.

[Stephanie]

38. check out the photo - what a dumbass >>>

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//071210/4... /

Republican president hopeful, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., front left, talks about the need for strong leadership with Felix I. Rodriguez, president of the Association of Bay of Pigs Veterans, right, while taking a group photo with veterans of Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami, Fla., during a campaign stop Monday, Dec. 10, 2007.
(AP Photo/David Adame)

[Kucinich4America]

40. Did Dumbass Thompson write his entire platform in 2002?

Last time I bothered listening to him, he was talking as if Iraq still had WMD's. Now he's threatening to kill a man who's been gravely ill for over a year. At least he managed to figure out that Raul Castro is Fidel's likely successor (although I don't remember ever reading that Raul officially gave the reigns back to Fidel)

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

41. Does this mean he's going to make Dead-Eye Dick Cheney his VP?

and arrange a Castro-Cheney duck hunting trip in Cuba?