Fred Thompson Goes Nutmeg

Fred Thompson Goes Nutmeg
by Ryan Sager
May 25, 2007
STAMFORD, Conn. — In his second major outing as a presidential candidate in waiting, Fred Thompson spoke last night to the Connecticut Republican Party for its annual Prescott Bush awards dinner. It was a somewhat unlikely venue for the conservative former Tennessee senator — speaking to the Nutmeggers who send moderate Rep. Christopher Shays to Washington, D.C., year after year ….

After eight years in Washington, I longed for the sincerity of Hollywood,” Mr. Thompson said, referring to his departure from the Senate, in what’s becoming a standard line. “That’s no joke my friends.”

And then, on the topic of the day, immigration, he let loose. “We are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs,” Mr. Thompson said, laying into the recent proposed compromise, engineered by Senator McCain, that would provide legal status to millions of currently illegal immigrants while ostensibly strengthening border enforcement. “We’re sitting here now with essentially open borders.”

“They don’t get it that putting it on a piece of paper anymore, even passing it into law, does not convince the American people that they will do what they say they’re going to do,” Mr. Thompson thundered.

And if Mr. Thompson had harsh words for his Republican friends on the immigration deal, he had much harsher words for the Democrats on the war in Iraq.

“We look at our friends on the Democratic side who have clearly decided not what is best for their country, but what is best for the Democratic Party, and how they might get additional votes in future elections,” he said.

“Our choice is where we will fight,” Mr. Thompson said, echoing President Bush’s familiar line about fighting the terrorists there, so as not to have to fight them here. All the Democrats want to debate, he said, is “the date of our surrender.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
“We are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs,” Mr. Thompson said, laying into the recent proposed compromise, engineered by Senator McCain, that would provide legal status to millions of currently illegal immigrants while ostensibly strengthening border enforcement. “We’re sitting here now with essentially open borders.”
Good. That ought to tick off those who would trash the Constitution and surrender to an illegal invasion.