Thompson Visits Little Havana

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NY Times

September 14, 2007, 12:03 pm
Thompson Visits Little Havana
By Julie Bosman

Fred Thompson at Versailles in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Fred Thompson paid homage to Cuban-Americans today with a visit to Versailles, the Little Havana restaurant that doubles as a requisite campaign stop in Miami.

He gulped down a cafecito like it was a tequila shot, munched on a guava pastry and quoted one of his lines from “Die Hard 2” after signing a DVD for a fan. (”Stack ‘em, pack ‘em and rack ‘em!” he said, grinning.)

In between, he called Fidel Castro “the head of state-sponsored terror” and told an audience here that he has been a friend of the Cuban community since his first days as a senator from Tennessee.

“Castro, one way or the other, will be off the scene before very long,” Mr. Thompson said, speaking in a small room with pictures of Cuban cigars framed on the walls.


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[rodeodance]

1. oh stick a cigar in your nose!

[dickbearton]

12. I know a better place Freddy boy can stick his lite cigar.

[goclark]

2. Where do they get these creatures from?

Looks aren't everything but these rethugs hurt my eyes!

The combination of "no depth" of knowledge and ugly mugs floors me.

Give me Dennis ~ he is handsome to me. When he opens his mouth he is saying something!

I love his wife too. She doesn't look or act like an air head.

[ryanmuegge]

8. His wife is freakin' hot, man.

Always loved those redheads.

[Tanuki]

3. Fred doesn't look quite as jowly and baggy-eyed as before....

has he had cosmetic surgery recently? Is that why the campaign kick-off was delayed several weeks?

(edited for typo)

[ClintonTyree]

11. He looks absolutely cadaverous to me....

and this old fossil wants to be elected to a 4 year (then 4 more, of course) term? He looks like he should be measured for a pine box.

The GOPers are looking for someone "Reaganesque". They found him: a walking corpse.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Why did he feel he should repeat some alleged lines he had in a Bruce Willis movie?

Who on earth would really remember, besides Fred Thompson?

Had to check google images to find a photo to even know he had been in a Die Hard movie.


Great moments in world history, as Fred believes: "Stack ‘em, pack ‘em and rack ‘em!"

[TwilightGardener]

5. Cheesy. Why play up the actor angle?

[onehandle]

6. Loser. nt

[Judi Lynn]

7. Ah, ha ha ha ha. He got "good" coverage from the local paper, the Miami Herald!

GOP's Thompson shows his conservatism
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson stated his conservative positions on most issues on the first day of a three-day Florida tour.
Posted on Fri, Sep. 14, 2007

~snip~
STAGE PRESENCE

While most Republican candidates share his views, some party members who turned out Thursday said Thompson's platform was special because of the way the former Law & Order actor carried himself and spoke. Many feel he's more conservative than his rivals who have changed their positions on abortion and guns.

Speaking without notes and smoothly moving from one topic to the next, Thompson, 65, talked of how laws come from God and not the government, mentioned his humble Tennessee roots and portrayed himself as a man who has nothing to lose because he's beholden only to the truth.

His decision to tour Florida from Jacksonville to Sumter County to Miami to Pasco County shows Thompson is banking on the new early Jan. 29 primary, which could help catapult him to the front of the field nationally, and counteract Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's potential wins in Iowa and New Hampshire. Thompson's speeches steered clear of directly attacking his Republican rivals, such as front-runner Rudy Giuliani, and even the Democratic opposition.

Like the other Republicans, Thompson said he would ''bite the bullet'' and veto the ''pork-barreling'' federal budgets that have increased spending to historic heights when Republicans controlled the Capitol.

''We will send a message on Election Day when we elect a president who will blow the whistle on this irresponsibility,'' Thompson said at both stops.

His harshest criticisms were reserved for the institution Americans love to hate: Congress, now under the control of Democrats who want to pull out of Iraq.
(snip)


http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/236981.html

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Even ANOTHER story:

Thompson gets access to Fla. gun shows
Posted on Fri, Sep. 14, 2007Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email
By MARC CAPUTO
[e-mail]

CELEBRATION -- Fred Thompson's presidential campaign has hit a conservative bull's eye: The exclusive rights to advertise at some of Florida's largest gun shows.

Pasco County Republican chairman Bill Bunting said he has engineered the deal for the former Tennessee senator and Law & Order star because he's the best person to trust when it comes to the right to buy, sell and own guns.

In a state with 435,000 concealed-weapons permit holders, the arrangement all but guarantees that thousands of voters who care deeply about the issue could identify Thompson as their man heading into the Jan. 29 primary, in which the other Republican candidates' gun-toting credentials are viewed as suspect by many.

''The other candidates just aren't as clear in their support of the Second Amendment,'' Bunting said. ``There are good Democrats who own guns, but that party doesn't put the right to bear arms in their political platform. The Republican Party does.''
(snip)

In addition, he said he has an e-mail list of 70,000 politically active gun owners he plans to contact on Thompson's behalf.

''Going into this campaign, I was concerned,'' Bean said. ``We feel Fred is our best hope.''
(snip/)

http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/237311.html

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And a video sound bite, as he yammers about Cuban President Fidel Castro and the embargo:
http://video.ap.org/v/Legacy.aspx?partner=en-ap&g=e4cbca85-9819-4e0a-906e-9a6a586d3cfd&f=FLMIH&mk=en-ap&f=flmih\',\'_blank\',\'width=788,height=598,status=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1\'

[Mika]

13. If he wants to veto the ''pork-barreling'', a good place to start is the anti Castro industry,

Gawd only knows how many anti Cuba foundations, propaganda networks, and transition studies/projects we are paying for (for national security, I'm sure).



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[Judi Lynn]

14. Some in that crowd must have been nearly helpless with laughter when he started his implications

nationalist Cubans are wild and violent, when it has been the MIAMI MAFIA all this time, with some assistance from a few of their New Jersey brethern who have been conducting 45+ years of continuous TERRORISM AGAINST CUBA, all conducted almost completely in the open, with the U.S. FBI "turning" as bomber/mass murderer Luis Posada Carriles told a reporter, "their heads" to avoid knowing too much, officially about what they were doing.

Also it was a matter of considerable pride to someone like Santiago Alvarez who also bragged to another reporter that the US gummint caught a bunch of them in a completely loaded arsenal/yacht headed toward Cuba, and weren't charged with anything.

They must believe Fred has spent most of his adult years drunk, or is simply a man too stupid and unmotivated to hear anything going on around him, and spend any time thinking about it. Only a FOOL would be ignorant enough to talk to the Miami guys about how "violent" Cuban nationals are, what a "threat" they are to any other country.

[PSPS]

9. Well, I guess he's got the Batista vote locked up!

[Judi Lynn]

10. Yeah, some people don't want the guys with the unlimited stash of C-4 bombs mad at them!

On the advantage side, who couldn't use a few henchmen the caliber of the Watergate Burglars, running a Republican Presidential campaign!

[UTUSN]

15. Uh, yeah. He's got that Latin VERVE!!1 n/t