Fred Thompson Goes After John McCain
Filed under: 2008 elections, Feature, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Mike Huckabee — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on January 15, 2008 @ 10:41 pm CET
Via Hot Air comes the following video (below the fold): Senator Fred Thompson has, according to his supporters finally, gone after Senator for Arizona John McCain. As AP points out, “[i]t would have been more effective if he’d gone after him individually instead of lumping him in with Huck but the race being what it is in South Carolina, he doesn’t have much choice. Any attack on one benefits the other so he’s forced to attack both.”
Thompson: “When you look at the approach of Governor Huckabee and Senator McCain, they clear are moving away from what I consider to be the sound constitutional traditional principles that the Reagan coalition was founded upon.”
When asked whether he’s doing the job for John McCain by going after Huckabee, Thompson pointed out that he mentioned McCain as well and that he considers this mantra to be one of Huckabee’s talking points. “I had several policy differences that I had with him when we were standing there, man to man, face to face, he didn’t answer any of them. Now three days later he comes back with accusations like this or that, it’s all about process and doing someone else’s work. The notion that I’ve been doing what I’ve been doing for the last several months day and night, to be some kind of a stalking horse for someone else, is beyond ludicrous,” he said.
Watch it:
And that’s not the only situation in which he went after McCain either. In an interview with Glenn Beck he criticized his former colleague in the Senate for voting against the Bush tax cuts and for his stance on immigration.
There are some real policy differences between McCain, Huckabee and Thompson and the latter is right to point those differences out. There are choices beyond the moderate Republican McCain and the Christian Conservative Huckabee. Thompson is one of them, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are the two others.
That’s one of Fred’s major strengths: policies.
And it seems that his new approach is working: he’s surging in South Carolina and especially nation-wide. Yes, he’s still 10% or more behind McCain in SC, but considering where he had to come from it shouldn’t be impossible for him to make up the difference with McCain in at least that state, especially not if Mitt Romney wins today in Michigan.
1 Winghunter
January 16, 2008 @ 12:47 am CETThe Huckster has a republican view on one issue, this hardly makes him a conservative by any stretch of the imagination;
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2 Larry
January 16, 2008 @ 3:39 am CETDid Thompson and McCain have a lovers spat or was this for show?
3 levotb
January 16, 2008 @ 3:52 am CETThompson will drop out shortly and endorse not his friend McCain but the eventual President, Romney.
4 Don Jones
January 16, 2008 @ 8:30 am CETFred always has been the best candidate. Now that the economy has started to tank Fred would do well to take on the gas tank. The cost of fuel is the cancer that is eating the economy. There is plenty of oil for us if we can prove to the green people we can have oil and green fields. Also we need to build nuclear plants again.
5 Steve
January 16, 2008 @ 12:17 pm CETIf the Republicans really wanted to defeat Clinton or Obama, they would vote for McCain. Other GOP candidates will lose the general election by large margins.
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January 20, 2008 @ 12:12 pm CET[…] Michael van der Galien wrote an interesting post today on Fred Thompson Goes After John McCainHere’s a quick excerptVia Hot Air comes the following video (below the fold): Senator Fred Thompson has, according to his supporters finally, gone after Senator for Arizona John McCain. As AP points out, “[i]t would have been more effective if he’d gone … […]