Fred Thompson May Announce Presidential Campaign Next Tuesday
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
June 25, 2007
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Fred Thompson may announce his campaign for the Republican nomination for president as early as next Tuesday and reports indicate the former Tennessee senator may select Nashville as the site of his campaign headquarters. Thompson may announce tomorrow from the steps of the Fall School Building.
WSMV in Nashville reports that a knowledgeable source says the Thompson campaign has leased the historic building to house a national campaign headquarters.
It houses the state's oldest school and also has office space.
"Everything's in place for Tuesday," the source told WSMV. "There are three major events built around his announcement."
However, Bob Davis, the Tennessee Republican Party chair and Thompson's former chief of staff indicated there is no plan for an official announcement.
Earlier this month, sent a video message to the 1,200 attendees at the National Right to Life convention and said he opposed both abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Fred Thompson May Announce Presidential Campaign Next Tuesday
Looking at Thompson's lobbying past
Looking at Thompson's lobbying past
By TRAVIS LOLLER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.
As a lobbyist for more than 20 years, billion-dollar corporations paid Thompson for his access to members of Congress and White House staff. During that time he was close to two Senate majority leaders, both from his home state of Tennessee - his political mentor Howard Baker and, more recently, his former colleague Bill Frist.
During Baker's tenure, Thompson lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry's collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
More recently, while Frist led the Senate, Thompson earned more than $750,000 lobbying for a British reinsurance company that wanted to limit its liability from asbestos lawsuits.
That history as a Washington insider is at odds with the image Thompson has sought to convey to voters. When he first ran for the Senate in 1993, Thompson cast himself in the part of the gruff, plainspoken everyman, leased a red pickup truck and drove around Tennessee in his shirt sleeves.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Republican Fred Thompson aims for blogger-in-chief
Republican Fred Thompson aims for blogger-in-chief
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
Reuters
Sunday, June 24, 2007; 9:05 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If Republican Fred Thompson enters the presidential race next month as expected, the actor and former senator will be aiming to add another title to a crowded resume -- blogger-in-chief.
Thompson has been contributing frequently to conservative Web sites as he gears up for a 2008 presidential bid, posting thoughts on topics ranging from the French election to the Middle East and the immigration debate.
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Newsweek Weighs in on Fred Thompson
By Andy Selepak
Accuracy in Media
Monday, June 25, 2007
Although Fred Thompson has yet to formally announce that he is running for President, the media are already looking for ways to take down his campaign and make Thompson less appealing to Republican primary voters. Thompson, referred to as "a Southern-fried Reagan" by the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land, was the subject of an article in the June 25 issue of Newsweek magazine that ran with the subtitle: "The right has a crush on Fred Thompson, but his own papers suggest he is less conservative then they think."
By questioning Thompson's conservative credentials, Newsweek writer Holly Bailey appears to be discouraging the rise of Thompson's poll numbers within the Republican Party. According to the article, conservatives have "latched onto him as something of a political messiah" because they are "underwhelmed" with the current 2008 Republican presidential candidates. According to the latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll cited in the article, Thompson is running a "close second behind the current leader, Rudy Giuliani―and beat everyone, including Giuliani, among self-described 'religious right' voters."
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Thompson addresses the Policy Exchange in London, England on June 19, 2007
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Thompson on Leadership
Video from his senate campaign. Thompson discusses the importance of leadership.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
September 16, 2001 - 9/11 Memorial Speech
Thompson speaking about terrorism in his local church in Nashville, TN just 5 days after 9/11. The Senator speaks clearly and directly about terrorism, patriotism, responsibility, and leadership.
