Comments on: Revitalized Thompson Ready To Surge

National Review Online: With His Honest Message, GOP Hopeful Set To Fight For This Election

[gkc99]

Doesn''t the spew every stop coming from the Mouth of Sauron? It''s like Linda Blair all over again.

Punkinhead Thompson ain''t goin nowhere! He don''t got his hound dawg with him, so he''s losing the cracka vote.

Giuliani and Romnuts are ************* each other to death. McCain would make a fine president of Mexico.

I LOVES it!

[jerr11]

Ready to surge.

That sounds dangerous.

Get ready, Jeri, and hide that v i a g r a stuff from grandad.

[fredgrad2000]

"The dems are going to take total control next year. The question is WHO, not IF..." Posted by clestes

Ahhh, the loons are out in full force for Thanksgiving!! George Bush is unpopular because of the management of the Iraq War, period. Americans would still be supporting the war (WMD or not) by 70-80% if we had WON!! Americans do not like to lose; but the looney left''s confidence is completely unfounded, Americans are no more liberal or left-wing than they were pre-Iraq!! Americans still see no issue with fighting a war on terror, still do not want their taxes raised, still do not want gov''t run healthcare, still do not support gay marriage, still do not support subordinating our national security to the one-world gov''t UN crowd. Even in this situation, the MoveOn.org candidates (Kucinich, Edwards, Obama) cannot get over 25% of the Dem primary vote!! Even the Dems know that they cannot commit to a surrender in Iraq because the American populace doesn''t want a pacifist weakling in office; the Dem prez candidates won''t even commit to having troops out in 4 years because they know it will kill them in the general election. Dems may gain in Congress and win the White House, but they''ll be gone as fast as they came is they follow the looney left; and they ALL know it...so if you do get your Dem majority; trust me, it will lean much more towards the policies of the Bush Administration than the policies of MoveOn.org!!

[fredgrad2000]

"Fred Thompson, or anyone else who advocates eliminating the inheritance tax, does not represent what America is supposed to be."

Posted by jn122736

Typical liberal nonsense based on the notion that the government in ENTITLED to a piece of all money you earn, inherit, win...ALL money. The simple truth is that that money was already taxed once; to the deceased; there is no good reason that a mother and father shouldn''t be able to take their already-taxed money (that the tax and spend libs are free to earmark to high heaven) and leave it to their children. Their death is not and should not be a "taxable event"!! That money they leave behind has aleady been taxed; and would never be taxed again if they spent it before they died; there is no reason outside of socialist liberal ideology advocating redistribution of wealth through the government that mom and dad''s death should trigger a taxation. All of your other examples are typical liberal smoke and mirrors because they are examples where the personal earnings have not already been taxed once already (capital gains on investments, interest income, etc.). The DEATH TAX is quite literally that, a tax imposed ONLY because of death of the original holder of the already-taxed money.

[Razzl]

I couldn''t believe that NRO, which takes itself so seriously, would write such a headline about a man who doesn''t have the energy to "surge" anywhere but to the nearest easy chair, until I saw who wrote it--Larry Kudlow is the laughable right-wing cheerleader for capitalism on CNBC who''s having a rough time these days in his tv appearances convincing even his conservative Wall Street panelists that the credit crisis is a small thing that won''t stand in the way of roaring prosperity for 2008. The antigovernment world view of the right isn''t flying any more in a country where everyone is holding down 2 minimum wage jobs with no health insurance and no retirement to pay their mortgages and credit card bills which are pegged at unfair interest rates because the right won''t hear of any government regulation of the industries. The Reagan Revolution is on its deathbed and Fred ain''t going to revive it...

[lanefiller1]

Anyone wanting to see some telling video (with an accompanying column) from Thompson%u2019s first week on the trail in South Carolina should give this a try:
http://goupstate.us/index.php/lanefiller/2007/11/05/fred_thompson_for_president_of_what_the_

[taddles-2009]

LOL...you pathetic NRO turds, the only place Thompson is going to "surge" is in the bathroom when his Depends fail.

[walt1944-2009]

It has been learned that Fred Thompson, in an effort to save money on his campaign, will use "out takes'' from his movies to support his campaign. For example, one campaign commercial will show Fred Thompson playing the Admiral of the naval task force from the movie "The Hunt for Red October" to show that he "supports the troops"!

There will also be out-takes from his performance as the tough DA in "Law and Order" to show that he is tough on crime and supports putting criminals away FOREVER! The idea being that if Guiliani can use footage of 9/11 in his campaign, Thompson can use "Law and Order" to further his chances!

The Thompson camp feels that using his past acting performances in his campaign will boast his image and help him crawl out of the cellar in the polls.

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!

[jn122736]

Larry Kudlow, the author of this opinion piece, showed his disingenuousness by referring to the inheritance tax as the %u201Cdeath tax%u201D.
The favorite trick used by the new Republican Party is to denigrate names and/or titles by changing them or continually associating them with something bad or unacceptable until they become unacceptable by association.

The inheritance tax has NOTHING to do with the deceased because,by definition, he or she no longer exists.

The tax is on an existing,live, person%u2019s income regardless of how obtained.

Ever since the income tax was initiated all working class people have been forced to pay taxes on money they earn no matter how they earn it.

To be fair, taxes should be collected on ANY income regardless of where the income is from. That includes interest income from bank accounts and stock investments.

Furthermore, in my opinion, the rate/percentage of tax should be on an evenly graduated scale as income increases.

If the top 5% own/earn 95% of all income they should pay 95% of all taxes because they are enjoying the fruits of living in America where they have the chance to earn that much. That would make everyone more equal.

Fred Thompson, or anyone else who advocates eliminating the inheritance tax, does not represent what America is supposed to be.

[imnho]

I think that Fred Thompson lacks the fire in his belly to go the distance.

The arguement is academic since the whole that bush has dug himself and his party is so deep they have little hope of winning. Iraq will be a large albatross hanging around the parties neck. As the albatross swings to and fro yo will see republicans dropping like stones.

If you start a war you should know what your doing.If you don''t have a clue then expect to lose big when the public delivers its verdict.

[germanmom]

Some say he is lazy; I don''t think that''s the case...
he''s just not well enough for the rigor of the presidency.

[clestes-2009]

The rep presidential field would NEVER exists in any other election cycle than this. Any decent candidate for Congress or the Whitehouse knows that Bush has so seriously damaged the party that no one even knows what the hell republican means anymore. That is why we see so many rep retiring rather than run again.

Thompson and Rudy are 2 of the most under qualified candidates to ever run. McCain is too old, Romney''s Mormonism will kill him.

Really the only decent rep candidate is Ron Paul and the party leaders are too scared of him to support him.

The dems are going to take total control next year. The question is WHO, not IF. And depending on the WHO, the reps may be out of power for 12 or 16 years.

[briannorwood]

Look, we''ve had stupid for the last seven years. We can''t afford another 8 years of more stupid!

Nixon had it right when he recognized the limited intellectual abilitiies of Fred Thompson.