16. YOU GOP OH SO DESPERATE
HE HADN'T DONE SHIT FOR TENNESSEE
RE PICK-UP A PIECE OF STRAW UP HIS ASS
MOVIE STAR MY ASS
MARRIED TO A LITTLE GIRL
LOBBY, LOBBY,LOBBY, THATS HIS SPECIALITY .
GOT RICH..........ALL YOU GOP BITE

PETER PANELLA at 6:11AM on Jun 11th 2007

17. "WE ALREADY HAVE A TAX SYSTEM THAT PUNISHES OVER-ACHIEVERS (THE RICH) WHILE REWARDING UNDER-ACHIEVERS (THE POOR)."

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!! I can't stop laughing at this one. Sure, there are some rich people who are self-made, but to insinuate that people who are rich are all hard-working, self-made visionaries, and all poor or middle-class people are lazy, unmotivated, underachievers is incredibly elitist and shows how completely, unadulteratedly clueless and out of touch rich people are. Capitalism is a great idea. The problem is many self-described capitalists don't actually believe in it. What they actually believe in is much more akin to fascism. If you want to observe the true nature of the so-called capitalist, look no further to the turn of the 20th century in the United States and the unregulated, everything goes "capitalist" system that existed then. Monopolies, business trusts, and an increasingly smaller elitist class becoming ever wealthier off the blood of an increasingly larger underclass damn near transformed this country into the first fascist state. Funny that it took a great REPUBLICAN president in TR to determine that unchecked capitalism could be just as tyrannical and evil as any other politico-economic system devised by man. But, I guess in the average Republican extremist's view, the pre-Roosevelt years of the robber barons and corporate trusts were the "good 'ol days."

Justin Lane at 5:11PM on Jun 11th 2007

18. Down with Matt up with Fred.

rlddts at 2:08PM on Jun 11th 2007

19. Lynne, who do you think pays all of the taxes. Big business has no money that we Americans do not give them. If you raise their taxes you will raise our taxes. Bottom line. Simple. Think about it.

rlddts at 2:07PM on Jun 11th 2007

20. My comment is directed to "TC", simply WTF? You need to check your koolaid for illegal substances.

AMH at 1:58PM on Jun 11th 2007

21. Most of america, Dem and Rep, want the illegal situation solved not by saying hey your legal now, bring everyone you know in also.
FRED THOMPSON: We should scrap this ‘comprehensive’ immigration bill and the whole debate until the government can show the American people that we have secured the borders — or at least made great headway.”“Marriage is between a man and a woman, and I don’t believe judges ought to come along and change that.”
HILLARY CLINTON: “Legal Immigrant Children's Health Improvement Act of 2007,” which would lift the current waiting period of five years for federal health care benefits for immigrants.

One wants a stop to the madness, the other wants more benifits. Lets stop paying the costs for illegal immigration and we will have a lower deficit.

Jim Has an Idea at 2:11PM on Jun 11th 2007

22. IF JFK was running against Fred, I vote for Fred, IF Ronald was alive and running against Fred, well tuff call, but definetely I will vote for Fred over any of the current "choices".
Billary Clinton for President? of which Country? NOT our beloved USA!!!
IF we are not man enough to stop that abomination from hapenning, than we deserve 911, Osama for her Vice President might as well, Rossie "porker" O'Donell Sec of State.

John Diesel at 2:21PM on Jun 11th 2007

23. I have to agree with Mr. Lane. The sad truth of the matter is that we are once again becoming a society of the "haves and the have nots." The so called middle class is shrinking while the gap between the rich and the working poor grows wider every year. Millions of hard working Americans cannot afford to eat three meals a day or to pay the co-pays on medical care. Millions don't even HAVE medical care. We are regulating and fee charging the average American out of the ability to function. We are looking at a society which is increasingly self centered, and greedy. Business, our wonderful capitalist system, is a perfect example. Business has lost its moral compass, and needs no more encouragement or governmental breaks. Encourage them to make more jobs? Well, if the jobs paid enough to live on and provided the benefits their employees deserve, that would be a fine and worthy goal, but thats not what happens. The jobs created seldom pay a living wage, and benefits keep shriveling or are tied up in so many what ifs, wherefores, and extra costs, that they might as well be non existent in the first place. Where have the concepts of loyalty, honesty, and integrity gone? What has happened to the concept of a reasonable expectation of profit versus an egregious expectation of profit? Today, greed is the motivating factor of business. What we have is "more work for less pay," and "benefits shmenefits." Find the loophole, add in the fine print, know how to work around the rules, and if we can save a buck and increase our profits, (no matter if we already make enough to fund a small country) well thats the way Jose. Lets all pay the least we can, an cut out as many benefits as possible, or move our factories to a foreign country where we can pay even less. Lets see how high we can crank up the profit margin and pat ourselves on the back as we pad our corporate pocket books. Contrary to the current school of thought, growth, unrestricted, unchecked, and unregulated is not necessarily the best thing for our businesses, our people, or our country, and companies CAN become too large to be "the best they can be."

As for Fred Thompson, to tell you the truth, although in many ways I myself am fairly conservative voter, I have found that I am becoming increasingly more inclined toward the so called liberal school of thought. I deplore the stranglehold that the lobbyists and special interests have on our politicians, and on our society. As another person here has said, just because it is an old profession, does not mean that it is honorable, or good for us. The fact that Mr. Thompson has been involved in that activity is enough to disenchant and even scare me away from supporting him. I like him as an actor, I think he should stay in that profession.

To hear more of my RANTING...please see http://www.geocities.com/onamericana/RANT.html

D.Todd at 2:34PM on Jun 11th 2007

24. You are all stupid!

john c at 2:39PM on Jun 11th 2007

25. This guy is an actor for Pete's sake, if this is the best me can do, God help us. And forget hailing Mr. Reagan, we are still paying for his spending and cuts to corporations.
After all you guys fold all the U.S. manufacturing companies, and the small businesses, ship the jobs overseas or to Mexico, buy everything from China and watch their troops grow. Especially as we kill and maim our current military/national guard.........we are all going to be speaking Chinese! Read your history, they are not selling us this stuff to help us, they are controlling every part of your lives. We are so arrogant as to think we have this covered.
America is gonna lose everything is they keep following dumb leaders!!!!

m wirth at 9:58AM on Jun 14th 2007

26. Quite frankly, I don't know why he's even bothering to run. After the Republicans' failure to repeal the enormous tax incentive to ship our jobs overseas (something the Democrats are planning to turn into a tax DISINCENTIVE), all we need is another whore for corporate America arranging no bid or improperly influenced contracts at the tax payors' expense. Cutting corporate taxes ranks right up there with one of the most blatantly distasteful campaign themes he could possible think of. Since 2000, with the spell luckily being broken in 2007, we've seen the huge deficit that Republican borrow and spend (BIG) and seen how at every chance, Republicans award the really huge contracts to insiders on a no bid basis, rather than taking competitive bids to lower their huge deficit. At this point, I think its clear to the American public that in order to salvage the nation from serious damage to our democracy and integrity during the Bush years, that the Republican Party offers virtually nothing to make average Americans' lives better.

What I love are the ever changing Republican soundbytes which all abysmally fail: "tax and spend Democrats" (with (R)'s compulsive spending spree on credit building up the largest deficit in history when they started with a Clinton budget surplus; "godless liberals" (this was big with R's after the one time triumph of Evangelism over reality. Now that we have had 7 years of lies, really BAD corruption, cronyism and sleaze - (R)'s are very aware this is a bad time to call anyone "godless"); "traitors" (this of course refers to the 72% of Americans who hate their (R) reality. Something about a mere 28% of America calling the rest of the country "traitors" fails to pass the "straight face test"); "socialists" (this one is ludicrous. It refers to our methof of government for decades which worked beautifully under Clinton. What it refers to is a CENTRIST like Hillary Clinton because she wants national healthcare and is tired of the (R)'s burdening the middle class and working poor, while letting big corporations and ultra wealthy take all their money. Isn't it time the average American got a break?)

Phil at 12:04PM on Jun 12th 2007

27. What is wrong with this picture. A TV actor to run for President of the U.S. A supporter of all the things wrong with this country, and another neocom. What is his position of the war, the economy, health issues and immigration. You all are so wrapped up in his so called glamour, you aren't asking the hard questions. Are we looking for four or eight more years of the same. If you know what Thompson stands for, please let us in on the secret.

Flora Goldman at 3:29PM on Jun 13th 2007

28. Protestant conservative do not think Fred Thompson doesn't come with baggage. All of the candidate do. At this point he is the only candidate (I'm really hopping he runs). I consider him the best for the job. Tax Cuts are great - they helped the job boom and the lower unemployment. To take that away will just bring back higher unemployment.

The problems Protestants have currently is that we don't protest enough. We sit by as we watch our rights be taken away and given exclusivly to other religious groups. It's illegal for a Christian to pray in public but legal for Muslim.

I say to all Protestants/Christians it's time to stand up to our rights and bring our country back to where it belongs.

Tammy at 9:20AM on Jun 15th 2007

29. The Democrats have nothing to offer but to blame the Republicans for everything. What have they done since they got control of the Congress. At least with Fred you know where he stands and that we will not be speaking Spanish or praying 20 times a day to the east. Hillary want to take 15% of our retirement savings to fund her social reform. I too will look at moving to another place if the Wicked Witch of the East is elected. He doesn't claim to be perfect and he won't leave a trail of blood behind him like the witch has.

Steve at 5:02AM on Jun 15th 2007

30. "If you know what Thompson stands for, please let us in on the secret." - Unlike the other candidates, who are just now beginning to explain what they stand for and formulate a platform, Fred's views and positions are widely publicized. Email me and I'll be happy to provide links. Fred has a solid record of voting federalist and has been consistent in that. He is actually the easiest candidate to decipher, beause nothing is a cipher. It's very clear where he stands.

Steven Smith at 11:33AM on Jun 15th 2007