Fred Thompson warns that people in the United States should be made to sacrifice

[BlueStater]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Evoking the legacy of Ronald Reagan, potential presidential candidate Fred Thompson told fellow Republicans that smaller government and lower taxes are the way to a prosperous future.

The former Tennessee senator and "Law & Order" star spoke for about 35 minutes Friday night to the Lincoln Club of Orange County, sketching a broad agenda that hewed to Reaganesque themes — a strong military, a limited federal government and robust free markets.

Thompson also warned that people in the United States must be prepared to sacrifice in a world threatened by terrorism and hostile governments.

"Every generation has made sure that it did its part to make sure that it did endure, with the sacrifices they made. And now it's our turn," Thompson said.

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So tell us, Freddy, what have YOU ever had to sacrifice?

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[Deja Q]

1. But I thought we WERE prospering; the economy doing well!

And some have prospered more than others. Maybe they need to sacrifice as well?

The dude should ask any commoner on the street. We are making sacrifices. By paying huge costs for necessities; which in turn reduces our power to buy anything else -- and it's the ability to get anything else that's the reason our economy hasn't crashed.

is that what we're going to sacrifice? The economy? The middle class itself? We've sacrificed our self-esteem the last several years, getting educated just to see high paying jobs go out the window and told to retrain. For other jobs that are also going out the window.

If government is to be small, how will the corporations replace it as structure?

Hostile governments? Inevitable, but define how they are hostile. And which ones are.

Maybe the corporate friends to do the same thing. Especially the oil ones, for obvious reasons.

Especially when Reagan started the trend of "greed", "me first", the national debt, and so on. Ironically, it's Reagan as to why the concept of society and sacrifice has been lost. That's the one aspect of "trickle down" that, arguably, was successful.

Whatever. I think Fred will be put in the same electoral bucket as that obtuse John McCain. (people have not forgotten his "Americans won't pick lettuce for $50/hr" insult. Which goes back to the sacrifice of self-esteem as well.)

Unless I'm missing something. ?

[Mist]

2. Well, Fred, we've sacrificed our constitutional rights. Is that what you meant? nt

[MADem]

3. He's no Ronald Reagan.

For whatever that is worth....

He's got the aging tee vee actor thing down, he's got a chronic and incurable illness, but he's got no HAIR on his head--Ronnie had that thick hair with the great dye job (yeah, he denied it--he could do that, because it wasn't dyed, it was RINSED). And as we all know, if it ain't height that decides, it's hair...so sayeth the pundits!

Go home, Fred, go home. And tell your wife, Jugs, to stop trying to shop your old ass around as a candidate. You're just not "that" inspiring. The fact that Fred is even seen as a Great White Hope suggests that the GOP is in desperate straits...

[bigdarryl]

11. MADem your 100% right on target this man isn't inspiring at all

like you said he has a bald headed and that is a no no in Presidential politics.

[Blue-Jay]

21. "Jugs"

:rofl:

[MADem]

28. Normally, I don't go for those sorts of nicknames, but it is clear to me

from that woman's mode of dress that she'd be postively INSULTED if you didn't "notice"-- and do I mean NOTICE -- those hoo-has. She's got them pumped up like the tires on a monster truck (they don't just look angry, they look, dare I say, furious!), and she restrains them with what looks like a hunk of dental floss and a small hankie or two!

[rodeodance]

4. do you think he is talking tax increase?-nah.....!

[primative1]

13. He is hinting at more loss of civil liberty ...

They have no intention of addressing the debt ...
They have already sold off the economy to the highest foreign donors/bidders
All they need now is the infalable ability to quickly crush any dissent.

[rodeodance]

5. "hewed to Reaganesque themes"-----He is running for Pres. folks!---yes I

do think he will toss in his hat for the run.

[Deja Q]

6. On the flip side, as he is a Republican, maybe he is

referring to big business executives, who drive 50 miles to work one way in SUVs each day? :D

[C_U_L8R]

7. That's what republicans always say

right before they rob you blind

[sarge43]

8. New voice, same bullshit. n/t

[MADem]

12. Succinct, and right on target, that!! NT

[sarge43]

16. Thank you

Something else about sacrifice: Whenever one person sacrifices, another one gains because there's always an offering in a sacrifice. Moral: Turn on your crap detector whenever a fat old man talks sacrifice; he wants something.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. Why does Fred Thompson have any credibility?

I wonder, sometimes, why I wasn't born with more charismatic tags. A deep baritone voice, an intense gaze, the ability to communicate calm when you know urgency is needed.

Fred Thompson is a dinosaur and needs to turn around and lumber off into the horizon. He's trying to play the role of the Duke or even Ronald Reagan. It's time for wise men to prevail, not for young men to die. See any wise men around in the Republican party lately?

[Cha]

23. Good post!~

I wish it were "time for wise men to prevail" and young men to stop dying.

[KatyaR]

10. Wow, that sounds promising, doesn't it?

Like most of us aren't suffering enough now? No thanks, I'll pass.

Whatever happened to positive campaign messages?

[Tellurian]

14. They are and they will Fred...with or without you..

Thats the plan isn't it. Thanks for the heads up. We couldn't have done it wthout your pearls of wisdom.

[zulchzulu]

15. "be prepared to sacrifice" = martial law and/or Patriot Act IV

I know where this is going... the bait smells like ratshit.

[Iris]

19. maybe we can go further. . . all families must produce and feed 4 or more children

for the sake of endless oil/terror wars.

[BeyondGeography]

17. Where's the sacrifice, Fred?

Young dead and wounded for a fraudulent and destructive "cause"? Now there's something we can all rally behind. Heaven forbid your precious tax cuts would be allowed to sunset. This is the rhetorical equivalent of a hanging curve ball, except there's no real joy in knocking it out of the park.

[TwilightGardener]

18. No--the "sacrifice" he's talking about means more military action--

since he wants to help overthrow the Iranian government, I take it to mean another war, if not Iran, then someplace else with oil. Like all neocons, he will be free and easy with OTHER kids' blood, OTHER parents' children. He is a sick bloodthirsty neocon fuck just like McCain. There are people on this forum who think he's a "nice guy". I find that astounding.

[Cha]

20. fucking bush wants people

to go "shopping" and look where he is in the polls.

It's a cinch the top 2% aren't funding this war on Iraq even though they're making money off it..guarenteed.

What's a gobshite monkey's ass to do? All these breaks for Americans and he's pulling 28% in the polls. Course, we know who those 28% are.

[acmavm]

22. Fred sounds nuttier than a fruitcake and is totally detached from reality.

We Americans, lower and middle classes, are already losing our jobs, going hungry, having our homes taken away, and our civil rights are a thing of the past.

What does that pathetic blowhard expect us to give up next?

[BearSquirrel2]

24. Ronald Reagan wasn't Ronald Reagan ...

Ronald Regan did NOT believe in small government. He believed in destroying the social programs that helped the poor and redistributing those funds to the rich. Plain and simple. Goldwater was the first and last "small government conservative". Everyone else is playing at it.

[Iris]

25. good point. Republicans are so enamored of wealth and power, why

would they want to destroy an entity as wealthy and powerful as the American government?

[primative1]

27. Revisionist History ....

Here is a line from the GOP debate which shouldnt easily be forgotten ...... Reagan looked into the eyes of the Iranians and within days the hostages were released .... ummm, yeah, quite a guy

[AX10]

26. But he will oppose tax increases on the wealthy to pay for ....

security and healthcare among other things.

[MODemocrat]

29. Typical RepublicanNUT rheoteric

While he draws in his millions, we're supposed to sacrifice! Just exactly how much more do we even have
to skimp so the wealthy can have yet more tax breaks! Okay, so I'll stop getting my prescriptions filled; that should help quite a bit...... What a selfish goon Thompson is. So what's new?


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