FRED Thompson is…
- Dr. Richard Land (president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission) on the Friday, April 6th edition of msNBC’s Hardball
Wow… how’s that for the quote of the day?
If that’s the way evangelicals are looking at Thompson then it’s a foregone conclusion he’ll be running for president. He’ll get 15% of the Republican primary vote right away and an even larger percentage in southern states like South Carolina.
[…] On the stage tonight will be ten current and formerly elected officials, some with brilliant resumes but none with the “conservative credentials” that remind the base of Ronald Reagan. Waiting in the wings you have the man who created the Contract with America (a conservative opus that smashed the likes of Democratic superstar Mr. Hillary Clinton) - Newt Gingrich, and the “southern fried Reagan” (need we say more) - Fred Thompson. With these two mulling their futures, the Republican primary voter is playing wait and see - not just about their choice of candidates, but about the Republican party as a whole. […]
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm