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Republican Fred Thompson officially Announces Candidacy for President. Good News, Or?
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...thompson_N.htm
Thompson wants to be 2008's outsider
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
STAMFORD, Conn. — Politician-turned-actor Fred Thompson has been coy with audiences as he flirts with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
In an interview with USA TODAY, however, the former Tennessee senator not only makes it clear that he plans to run, he describes how he aims to do it. He's planning an unconventional campaign using blogs, video posts and other Internet innovations to reach voters repelled by politics-as-usual in both parties.
"I can't remember exactly the point that I said, 'I'm going to do this,' " Thompson says, his 6-foot, 6-inch frame sprawled comfortably across a couch in a hotel suite. "But when I did, the thing that occurred to me: 'I'm going to tell people that I am thinking about it and see what kind of reaction I get to it.' "
USA TODAY ON POLITICS: Thompson wants to 'go right to the people'
His late start carries some problems but also "certain advantages," he says. "Nobody has maxed out to me" in contributions, he notes, and using the Internet already "has allowed me to be in the hunt, so to speak, without spending a dime." .....
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I am not excited by this news. In addition to the usual "conservative" political POV that he "offers", Thompson seems like "same old", "same old"...
he made a recent speech to a CNP dinner, and his campaign is recruiting Karl Rove's protege and former RNC opposition "researcher", Tim Griffin for a "top slot":
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http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/030807PALAST.shtml
Bush's New US Attorney a Criminal?
BBC Television had exposed 2004 voter attack scheme by appointee Griffin, a Rove aide. Black soldiers and the homeless targeted.
by GREG PALAST
Timothy Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.
March 7, 2007—There's only one thing worse than sacking an honest prosecutor. That's replacing an honest prosecutor with a criminal.
There was one big hoohah in Washington yesterday as House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers pulled down the pants on George Bush's firing of US Attorneys to expose a scheme to punish prosecutors who wouldn't bend to political pressure.
But the Committee missed a big one: Timothy Griffin, Karl Rove's assistant, the President's pick as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. Griffin, according to BBC Television, was the hidden hand behind a scheme to wipe out the voting rights of 70,000 citizens prior to the 2004 election.
Key voters on Griffin's hit list: Black soldiers and homeless men and women. Nice guy, eh? Naughty or nice, however, is not the issue. Targeting voters where race is a factor is a felony crime under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programme...ht/3956129.stm
Last Updated: Tuesday, 26 October, 2004, 17:06 GMT 18:06 UK
New Florida vote scandal feared
By Greg Palast
Reporting for Newsnight
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals.
It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.....
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I thought that it would be a good idea to examine whether Fred Thompson's new candidacy would bring any positive change to the dialogue offered as a forward political vision by current republican frontrunners, Romney, Giuliani, and McCain:
http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08rep.htm
....and, do we really need another republican entertainment personality involved in a prominent race for governor or president? |