Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Cheney in Washington Post

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

So you think that he might believe that being Vice President would hurt
his chances at winning the Presidency?

 

I do believe that to be the fact. The latest poll coming out this morning has him tied with Hillary, this is significant for a guy who has not officially announced his candidacy. Right now he has the face recognition and the perhaps the name recognition that a sitting vice president has without the ties to the current administration. Being Bush's VP would drag him down.

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> I am not sure where you woud come up with this idiotic statement. Do you
> know anything about Thompson and his politics or are you being your
> typical close-minded self?

He worked as a Washington lobbyist for a total of two decades.  One of his
great victories resulted in the massively devastating S&L scandal of the
late 1980s.  He also worked for Westinghouse and GE, both major defense
contractors.

 

I don't hold lobbying against anyone, who is more of a problem, those who lobby or those who are paid off by the lobbying?

 

I also am not in the least worried about his involvement with the S&L crisis. It took a lot of democrats in the late 70s and early 80s to deregulate the S&L industry, this was not an issue with republicans only. You seem to fail to remember that S&L deregulation was something trumpeted and started by the Carter administration and was carried through to completion with Reagan. Interestingly enough, the entire Reagan presidency saw a democratically controlled congress pass law after law that allowed this to take place.

 

If you want to manipulate the feelings of the American people for profit
-- call Fred Thompson, he'll help.  When you look at him and here his
voice, don't you get a feeling that he is solid and trustworthy?  He's
pretty good at what he does:  Scamming people.

 

Who me one presidential candidate in the race today that is not scamming people, Obama? Hillary? Do you actually believe in their sincerity?

 

Actually, I look at this guy and I do believe in him. When I look at Hillary, I see the years and years of lies that she has been involved in telling. Obama, while I think he is a decent guy and cannot say he is lieing, I am so far away from his politics that I cannot possibly support him.

 

Guiliani? McCain? There is no one out there that I can support for President other than Fred Thompson and for the first time in my life, I am actually going to volunteer in a presidential campaign, once he announces he is going to run.

 

 

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