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Thomson is getting flack for defending Scooter Libby of Valery Plame fame.

It turns out Fred did not only play a prosecutor on TV, he was one in real life. So when he says Fitzgerald went over the line he is not only qualified to say so, he also happened to be right.

A special prosecutor is nothing but unchecked, inquisitional power. There is nothing special about it.

I also like a guy who spots an injustice and calls it like he sees it, despite the political consequences.

Lem:

I think there was political calculation in what Thompson did via Libby. I would vote for him instead of just about any Democrat, but this guy is a politician. He supported McCain Feingold and wrote an amendment to the bill with Diane Feinstein. He also voted to increase the numbers of foreign workers in the United States. His rating as a Conservative is 86%, roughly the same as McCain.

The man is an actor, he has presence and he is very capable of changing his politics when it suits him. That does not make him a bad man or anything, but I think the idea of him as a guy who does not care about the political consequences of his actions…is naive. He cares very much.

Although I agree with Terrye that Thompson is not Mr. Conservative, I don’t think he could ever become as completely unmoored as W: hellbent as W is to deborder the United States. And since that is rapidly becoming the burning issue with the electorate: maintaining the sovreignty of the nation, what’s left of it, Thompson would make a stronger candidate, IMO, than Giuliani, who spouts the nation of immigrants line whenever the subject comes up.

ricpic:

Deborder??? That is just paranoid.

Honest to God, first we have the Dubai insanity and now this. Really. I think people have lost their freaking minds. And I don’t mean Bush either. Deborder. That is not even a word.

And if the sovereignty of the nation is in danger why is it no one seemed to notice until about year and a half ago?

It is not as if that border has ever been closed. Bush is the first President since the days of Pancho Villa to send troops to the southern border. Newt and his buddies did not even make mention of this hot topic back in the 90’s, was our sovereignty not under threat then? Thompson did not say anything about the crisis of sovereignty either in spite of the fact that people have been crossing that border forever. Nope, now all of a sudden like global warming and hurricanes it is all Bush’s fault and he is supposed to just wave a magic wand and with the help of a Democratically controlled Congress just fix everything we have ignored for decades. Right now, this minute. And if he strays from the path set out for him by the guys at the Corner, well he just has no respect for our sovereignty. The man could have made his life a lot easier by just saying to hell with defending this country and bringing those troops home after they dragged Saddam from his spider hole. He could have done the same thing with immigration that Clinton did with Kyoto, which is make some grand gesture and then just pass it of on the Senate and spared himself the bad press.

If Bush did not care about America or our sovereignty he could have made his life a lot easier by evading responsibility, kicking cans down the road and in general doing what Clinton did by living by the polls. I don’t see anyone accusing Clinton who did absolutely nothing to increase border security being accused of not maintaining the sovereignty of the nation.

Nice hit piece on Fred Thompson by USA Today. The MSM is so shallow that they never do their research before expressing their opinion. Thompson’s name started to get batted around during the tightly contested race for the US Senate between Republican Corker and Democrat Ford. Fred stepped up to help Corker and was one of several reasons Corker won. He was asked several times if he ever considered running for president and always gave a polite answer but showed no desire for the office. Conservatives in Tennessee latched on to his name since they saw no one in the projected field who came close to being their ideal candidate and began pressuring Thompson to consider taking on the task. Conservatives around the country, seeing the weak field, jumped on board. It did not take a bit of acting nor political gamesmanship.

And if the sovereignty of the nation is in danger why is it no one seemed to notice until about year and a half ago?

Oh, lots of us noticed. You just never noticed us, or cared to, most likely. As you also seem incapable of noticing just how awful George Bush really is – from a conservative point of view.

You might try noticing the history of these amnesty bills, while you’re at it, and further noticing that Bush has actually managed to build only 2 of the 700 miles of fence mandated by law.

“Debordered” may not be a word, but “open borders” certainly seems to be a concept Bush understands, and supports, very well.

Prove you can close the borders first. Then we can talk about what sort of legal immigration system we want to set up. Me? I favor a generous one. After the government proves it can control who actually does get in.