Cliff Schecter Takes On Fred Thompson

December 2007: Fred Thompson dragged his lazy arse to Ohio to try and convince voters 4 more years of Bush would be a good thing. I thought otherwise...

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presidential candidate fred thompson visited the buckeye state today and says he has a cleveland connection onn state house correspondent dan wiest is live on five in columbus following that story dan well it was the first trip to ohio for fred thompson as a presidential candidate a republican trying to build momentum for his campaign the actor and former senator from tennessee was here to raise money and meet with his ohio delegates thompson calls himself a rock solid conservative who doesn't change his stand on the issues democrats say though his message is out of step but in a small room at the state party headquarters thompson said america is at a crossroads we're going to to decide whether or not we're going to divert from the path that went on really for over 200 years and go down the path of the welfare state more in the european model weaker on national security weaker on national defense more divided as a nation all the failed policies that president bush has supported fred thompson supports those very policies whether it's on trade uh whether it's on giving a free ride to corporate criminals uh whether it's uh in iraq and iran and his disastrous foreign policy fred thompson and president bush are like two peas in a pod well from columbus thompson flew to iowa hoping to gain supporters in that state's upcoming nominating caucuses the first votes in the 2008 presidential campaign now thompson by the way said he used to visit an ant in cleveland as a younger man and he bragged today that he knew the entire lineup for the 64 indians i didn't get a chance to quiz him at the state capitol for news channel 5 i'm dan wiest the ohio news network we'll be sure to do that