THompson would over turn Roe V. Wade

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DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) – Likely Republican White House hopeful Fred Thompson told CNN Friday that he would push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and would work to overturn Roe v. Wade if elected president.

“I don’t think that one state ought to be able to pass a law requiring gay marriage or allowing gay marriage and have another state be required to follow along,” Thompson told CNN’s John King in an interview Friday.

Thompson added that the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion “was bad law and bad medicine.”

As for when he will jump into the race, the former Tennessee senator said "shortly."

“We are going to be getting in if we get in, and of course, we are in the testing the waters phase,” he said. “We’re going to be making a statement shortly that will cure all of that. But yeah, we’ll be in traditionally when people get in this race."

Thompson also said he believed he could enter the presidential race next month and still win the Iowa caucuses.

On the issue of Iraq, Thompson refused to provide a timeline for how much longer US forces would remain in the country under his administration, but said, “We need to make every effort to make sure that we don’t get run out of there with our tail between our legs before we’ve done the job of securing that place.”

Asked about critics who call him “too lazy” to put in the long hours necessary to run for president, Thompson said: “If I have critics in Washington it's not going to come as a surprise to me. I'll have more by the end of this campaign,” adding, “The proof’s in the pudding. I think that’s curable.”

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BAck to the dark ages! This makes me SICK.

[almaty 19]

over-turning the courts....roe vs wade..that get him allot of votes in the north..and midwest

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

just how would you overturn it as a president? just sign some decree?

Daniel

:energetic:

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just how would you overturn it as a president? just sign some decree?

Daniel

:energetic:

This is from the guy who, of the 90 bills he introduced during his eight years in the Senate, only four became law.

Lazy:

"I don't like spending 14- and 16-hour days voting on 'sense of the Senate' resolutions on irrelevant matters," he said in 1998. "There are some important things we really need to get on with—and on a daily basis, it's very frustrating."

Maybe he thinks being President is a 40 hour a week job?

Edited August 17, 2007 by devilette

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

just how would you overturn it as a president? just sign some decree?

Daniel

:energetic:

This is from the guy who, of the 90 bills he introduced during his eight years in the Senate, only four became law.

Lazy:

"I don't like spending 14- and 16-hour days voting on 'sense of the Senate' resolutions on irrelevant matters," he said in 1998. "There are some important things we really need to get on with—and on a daily basis, it's very frustrating."

Maybe he thinks being President is a 40 hour a week job?

isn't that what W puts in?

*ahem* but seriously, can a president overturn a court decision somehow? the legislative branch can change a law and the prez sign it and that law may come under review by the court for constitutionality check. but that is a lot harder done than said.

Daniel

:energetic:

[no name 1]

just how would you overturn it as a president? just sign some decree?

Daniel

:energetic:

This is from the guy who, of the 90 bills he introduced during his eight years in the Senate, only four became law.

Lazy:

"I don't like spending 14- and 16-hour days voting on 'sense of the Senate' resolutions on irrelevant matters," he said in 1998. "There are some important things we really need to get on with—and on a daily basis, it's very frustrating."

Maybe he thinks being President is a 40 hour a week job?

isn't that what W puts in?

*ahem* but seriously, can a president overturn a court decision somehow? the legislative branch can change a law and the prez sign it and that law may come under review by the court for constitutionality check. but that is a lot harder done than said.

Daniel

:energetic:

well, we know GW is on a month long vacay now...

Anyhoo, no other candidate would be stupid to announce that. Goes to show you how arrogant Thompson is. I personally cannot wait for him to announce & see him fail.

[Scott & Lai 12]

just how would you overturn it as a president? just sign some decree?

Daniel

:energetic:

This is from the guy who, of the 90 bills he introduced during his eight years in the Senate, only four became law.

Lazy:

"I don't like spending 14- and 16-hour days voting on 'sense of the Senate' resolutions on irrelevant matters," he said in 1998. "There are some important things we really need to get on with—and on a daily basis, it's very frustrating."

Maybe he thinks being President is a 40 hour a week job?

No, he thinks the Senate wastes a lot of time on irrlevant matters, instead of doing things that are actually important. It's right there in the quote.

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No, he thinks the Senate wastes a lot of time on irrlevant matters, instead of doing things that are actually important. It's right there in the quote.

Let me quote the whole article:

Does Fred Thompson have what it takes to be president? The former senator turned "Law & Order" actor, who launched an exploratory committee last week, has been dogged by rumors that he doesn't have the work ethic for a long campaign. "The book on him is he's lazy," David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union, said last week. The criticism seems fed by Thompson's time in the Senate, where he maintained a less rigorous schedule than his colleagues and was known to duck out of late-night debates. Of the 90 bills he introduced during his eight years in the Senate, only four became law.

Thompson has never denied being irritated with the pace of Senate life and cited it as one of the reasons he opted out of a 2002 re-election bid. "I don't like spending 14- and 16-hour days voting on 'sense of the Senate' resolutions on irrelevant matters," he said in 1998. "There are some important things we really need to get on with—and on a daily basis, it's very frustrating." His 2008 competitors have privately questioned his endurance, with one rival consultant (anonymous so as not to reflect badly on his own man) telling NEWSWEEK, "I doubt he has the fire in the belly to compete."

Thompson allies are pushing back. "Anyone who says he's not a hard campaigner doesn't know what they are talking about," Tennessee GOP chair Bob Davis, a former Thompson aide, tells NEWSWEEK. "I was there, they weren't." Still, it's true that Thompson is preparing to mount a somewhat untraditional bid for the GOP nomination. Aides say he will spend less time on the road than his competitors and will instead rely on new forms of communication with voters, including blogs, online videos and other Internet tools. Thompson allies acknowledge that might not always fly in early-primary states where candidates are often judged as much by their ability to flip a pancake as on policy issues. Last week Thompson reached out to GOP officials in several primary states, including South Carolina, where he offered to emcee a fund-raiser for the state party. He is planning visits to Iowa and New Hampshire later this month.

One of Thompson's key talking points will be that he's a Washington outsider, but he and his advisers are all Beltway vets. He's been consulting with former senators Howard Baker, Bill Frist and incumbent Sen. Lamar Alexander. He's tapped Tom Collamore, a former aide to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as his campaign manager and former Federal Election Commission chairman Michael Toner as the campaign's general counsel, with more hires expected in coming weeks. That's high productivity from a guy with a rep for laziness as far back as high school. In his yearbook at Lawrenceburg County High, Thompson put this quote next to his senior portrait: "The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow."

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[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Fred Thompson also represented abortion rights groups as a lobbyist.

It's pretty clear he's as slippery as the other candidates about where he stands on the issues.

[Dan J 277]

Fred Thompson also represented abortion rights groups as a lobbyist.

It's pretty clear he's as slippery as the other candidates about where he stands on the issues.

Sounds to me, he is just trying to appease to moralists. Who can be some of the most loyal supporters if you get them on your side. Look at Bush.

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The Republican Party has self imploded. Gone are the days when God fearing Christian Fundamentalist would openly give their support to a candidate who says he's against abortion. The politics of wedge issues is over, like Rove®.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Hmmm... what could be a more important reason to vote for a candidate... Abortion stance and opposing gay marriage. Yup those are key, relevant issues that affect our daily lives.

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Hmmm... what could be a more important reason to vote for a candidate... Abortion stance and opposing gay marriage. Yup those are key, relevant issues that affect our daily lives.

For a tiny percentage of America, perhaps. Thank god he won't make it that far.

[Dan J 277]

Hmmm... what could be a more important reason to vote for a candidate... Abortion stance and opposing gay marriage. Yup those are key, relevant issues that affect our daily lives.

For a tiny percentage of America, perhaps. Thank god he won't make it that far.

That tiny part of America can get pretty big, especially when they make support for their candidate part of the sermon.

[no name 1]

Hmmm... what could be a more important reason to vote for a candidate... Abortion stance and opposing gay marriage. Yup those are key, relevant issues that affect our daily lives.

For a tiny percentage of America, perhaps. Thank god he won't make it that far.

That tiny part of America can get pretty big, especially when they make support for their candidate part of the sermon.

After the debaucle that is the The GWB Presidency - I think America is ready for a non-Conservative candidate. Perhaps even Hillary.