'Law & Order' star: I'll ban abortion

[warrior1]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) – Likely Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson told CNN Friday that he plans to enter the race for the White House “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, adding, “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,” he told CNN’s John King in an interview Friday.

Showing his conservative stripes, Thompson said he would push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and would overturn Roe v. Wade.

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

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Bring in on motherfucker.

[SeattleGirl]

1. Great. Another rich white guy telling women what they can and can't

do with their bodies.

Fucker!

[Snotcicles]

41. Delete

[Triana]

49. The American TALIBAN...

...control FREAKS!

[aquart]

2. God bless his little loser ass.

[jdlh8894]

3. ut O ! n/t

[warrior1]

4. He really doesn't have

a chance. But, it's going to be fun to watch.

[PatSeg]

26. My reaction as well

This guy as NO substance at all, but he'll be great fodder for the MSM.

[Colobo]

5. Fred Thompson: Reagan without the personal charm.

[Richard Steele]

7. Or the tact or political savvy, apparently. nm

[mikeytherat]

12. A tale of two Fred Thompsons:

"A plan. Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan. And senior officers don't start something this big without having thought the matter through." Fred Thompson as Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise in The Hunt for Red October

"A plan. Only idiots run for President, son, without a plan. And, apparently, senior party members are adept at starting something this big without having thought the matter through." Fred Thompson as Scattershot Fred in The Search for a Campaign

mikey_the_rat

[beberocks]

6. The more the GOP candidates pander to their base

The more support they lose from independents and Democrats.

[C_U_L8R]

8. The "I hate women" candidate

and gay people too.

[wicket]

9. "Bring in on motherfucker."

Amen to that.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Right, sure he will

And lose the number-one money-making strategy for fleecing the fundamentalists?

I'm sure the powers that be will have a little "chat" with him soon.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Sorry Fred, but the prez doesn't get to ban abortion. He's also certainly not what I'd call

'well spoken' either. Haven't we had enough years of mumbling and stumbling?

[slackmaster]

13. Just a little technicality - Overturning R v W is not the same as banning abortion

You may now continue roasting DA Arthur Branch over the coals, which he deserves.

Oh, another technicality:

Roe v Wade did not legalize abortion. The anti-choicers are pushing a false premise that abortion had always been illegal everywhere before 1973. The truth is far more complex. It was already legal in many states. We had a patchwork of laws. Roe v Wade set a line in the sand limiting states' ability to regulate abortion.

[shain from kane]

14. “I don’t think that one state..." Well, there is something called the tenth amendment to the

Constitution.



States' rights refers to the idea, in U.S. politics and constitutional law, that U.S. states possess certain rights and political powers in relation to the federal government. A commonly cited source for states' rights is the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, which is part of the Bill of Rights. The states' rights concept is usually used to defend a state law that the federal government seeks to override, or to oppose a perceived violation by the federal government of the bounds of federal authority.

[yardwork]

15. States' righters aren't going to like that...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Nah. States' righters only get in a huff when...

...what the states want is to the right of what the Federal government wants.

When it's the other way around, they disappear in a puff of smoke.

[yardwork]

27. Yeah, I noticed that.

[HughMoran]

16. I knew there was a good reason I couldn't stand watching his shows

Long before knowing that RW ass hole was going to run, I switched the channel every time he came on screen.

Looks like Thompson is a RW retard for sure.

[TwilightGardener]

17. Can somebody tell me exactly what he's trying to say in that second paragraph

that quotes him? I guess Nixon was right, he IS dumb as hell. And supposedly his primary appeal is NOT his achievements (they are few), but his ability to communicate. Should be easy to "Rove" his strength, then--he's not much better than Chimpy when he speaks off-the-cuff.

[saracat]

18. And if his little twinkie has an ectopic pregnancy what?

Most likely it won't be his so what will Freddie do? One guess is all it needs.Ratfucker.

[ComerPerro]

19. BushCo had the White House and a Republican majority in both houses, and they didn't do either

they said they would, they swore up and down they would.

Could it be that Republicans are liars who pander to the worst impulses of humanity?

[demigoddess]

20. yeah, when he is too old and ugly to get pregnant, then he bans abortion

I hope I live to see the day when MEN BUTT out of this issue. Leave it to the women to decide.

[puebloknot]

21. This will be like Pelosi's initial (and only) laundry list! Once they get...

...these important things taken care of, then they can turn to healthcare, jobs, infrastructure, restoration of our civil rights. And, oh, yes: Ending the war.

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. I saw two bumperstickers on the same care which made me do a complete

double take. The first one said, "Abortion is murder." and the second said, "What part of 'thou shall not kill" are you having trouble understanding?"

So, I suggest you ask Mr. Thompson the latter question if he's that committed to overturning Roe, and ask him how he feels about killing civilians during the Iraq war?

[Raster]

42. Whenever an anti-choice nazi accosts me with the "abortion is murder" bullshit, I always ask

"how do you feel about the death penalty?" THEY ALWAYS SUPPORT IT!

Wake up America!:kick:

[sailor65]

23. As despicable a practice....

as abortion on demand is, no one President is going to be able to simply "Ban it," regardless of his or her desires, so why get all worked up? Save your anger for the things a President might actually be able to do.

[smiley_glad_hands]

25. What you call despicable, I call freedom of choice.

Slowly we are turning into the soviet union.

edited for spelling

[musette_sf]

44. translation: "come on girls, don't get 'all worked up'

about threats to your freedom, equality, and personal autonomy. after all, all we kindly menfolk want to do is to save you from a 'despicable practice'. you know, because when you're pregnant and all, you are just incapable of being able to make your own decisions about your own life, health, body, family, etc etc etc etc."

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

"save your anger"???? believe me, i've got lots of anger saved up from 50+ years vs. the patriarchy, and i've got plenty to spare for Scalia, the rest of the majority SCOTUS, Bu$hCo, fundie nuts of any cult, and your kind.

anyone who cares to condescend in the manner you did, and who has the nerve to call my Constitutionally-protected right to reproductive health care and my right to privacy in my health care choices "despicable"... well, i might think anyone like that who makes the effort to post on this site might be a troll, mole, or both.

[sailor65]

45. It's folks like you

who will blow yet another election for us. If you are as old as you claim, then you should be smart enough to know that the President will never be able to ban abortion. Even with a "Full House" on Capitol Hill, abortion is still legal. So while you go on rending and tearing your clothes over something that clearly won't happen, how about burning some of that righteous energy of yours on issues that MIGHT actually HELP us this time around? Start shouting about the issues we need shouted about. Or are you planning on helping the bastards yet again?

And in case you didn't get the memo, not all solid Democratic voters believe in abortion on demand. That damn sure doesn't make us trolls or moles, so get over yourself and do something constructive for the party.

[noamnety]

46. That is true

"not all solid Democratic voters believe in abortion on demand"

There are lots of democrats who are more than willing to trade women's rights for their own self-serving interests. Same for gay rights, immigrant rights, worker's rights, and the rights of anyone who ain't white and male.

[musette_sf]

59. how disingenuous!

it is a FACT that women's right to privacy in medical care is being decimated at every level, local, state and federal. your position presumes that women's right to privacy in medical care is strong and safe in every county in every state, and that the recent SCOTUS decision never happened.

"clearly won't happen"? tell that to the women who live in the 87% of US counties that have NO facility where she can exercise her constitutional right to privacy in her medical care choices. tell that to the women in Mississippi and South Dakota.

men would not stand to be treated like this. you have no interest in "helping us this time around". you think my anger about repressive forced-birth laws, and the codifying of religious superstition into oppressive laws against women, is frivolous.

"get over yourself and do something constructive for the party" aside from sounding downright Stalinistic, may i remind you that "myself" is over 50% of "the party".

male entitlement at the cost of others who are "lesser than"... one of the problems at the core of many of the issues we are suffering worldwide today. and your solution is for more than half of registered Democrats to shut up about what you have decided is a petty little problem not worth your time.
:wtf: and :puke:

[Mushroom]

60. Creative Therapy Memo:

Paddle your dinghy to Freddy’s mansion and carve bunion holes in his orthopedic slippers.

[WildEyedLiberal]

67. What's "abortion on demand"?

I hear right-wing backwards conservatives use that phrase all the time and I've never understood what it means. You mean a woman can walk in, 9 months pregnant, into a clinic and 15 minutes later, bam, she has an abortion? Is that what "abortion on demand" is? Please clarify, since you seem to be so well versed in Republican talking points. Thanks.

[baby_mouse]

72. There's no point winning an election to pass laws that you don't agree with.

... and that's that.

[baby_mouse]

73. Who are you to tell other people what to fight for?

How would *you* know what will win or lose?

[gollygee]

56. If you were a woman with a crisis pregnancy, I bet you wouldn't find it "despicable"

Desperate women are very thankful that it's legally available.

[Katherine Brengle]

62. "despicable practice" ---

Are you serious?

[Book Lover]

66. You call it getting worked up

I say that those of us who object to his sentiment are simply making an answer to his original statement. Does it mean nothing to the general conversation in this country about abortion that a man who wants the republican presidential nomination states publicly that if he could, he'd ban abortion? I say not, and as someone who supports keeping abortion on demand legal, I say that making a public response to this man's statement is necessary. And while no president (under current levels of power, anyway) can criminalize abortion by fiat, can you really say that any president's position on the matter has no bearing on how emboldened those who seek criminalizing abortion become? Those phone calls of support republican presidents make to anti-choice groups who gather on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade mean a great deal to those folks.

[baby_mouse]

71. There's nothing despicable about it. It's not a person, it's a group of cells. NT

[huskerlaw]

28. Fuck you, Fred.

I'd like to ban Republican actors from running for political office.

Jackass.

[AtomicKitten]

29. Bring it on, mo-fo indeed.

What a tool.

[Swamp Rat]

30. Might as well ban interracial marriage and brown-skinned people from voting.

Hell, why don't you ban PEOPLE, you fucking lizard.

[Raine]

31. Heh I'd like to see him try

cause all hell will break lose. All the CONservatives do is talk big about ending it but they never have the guts to carry thru cause if they do it will be the end of their ilk. They are afraid cause they know it will unify and energize our side so much they will be buried or decades.

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[badgerpup]

32. That is beyond pathetic..

...and into the realm of ludicrous.

Why doesn't he just put on a Reagan mask and promise $50 to everyone who votes for him and get it over with?

These GOP guys are all competing to see who's gonna be the biggest, baddest, most xenophobic, homophobic (and for the main part chickenhawk) warmonger on the block.

OH YEAH? WELL, I CAN BE EVEN STUPIDER THAN THAT!
:wtf:

[That Is Quite Enough]

33. Hey Scrotumface...

Having no respect for anyone besides rich white men. GOP as usual.

[Bjorn Against]

34. Requiring gay marriage?

Who in the hell has proposed "requiring" gay marriage as Thompson suggests may happen? My god Republicans are paranoid idiots if they think someone is going to put a gun up to their head and force them to marry someone of the same sex. What will these people come up with next?

[Mojambo]

35. He's got NO chance.

He may score some points with idiotbag conservative primary voters, but stating up front that you're going to outlaw abortion is a hell of a way to lose the general election... BIG.

[AnnInLa]

36. I would NEVER comment on someone's appearance

but I am waiting on Tweety Matthews to comment on how very OLD he looks. And, I am waiting on Tweety to say that someone that old-looking will not be related to by the youth vote. I am waiting.

[terrya]

37. It's George W. Bush part II

What's next, asshole? Privitizing Social Security?

Dickhead. Although, there will be some who will "ooh and ahh" over the fact that he's on "Law and Order". Those assholes should not be allowed to vote.

[progressoid]

38. Umm...Fred, doesn't congress have a role in law making too?

[AnnieBW]

39. How about we ban trophy wives?

They're doing more to break up marriages than gay marriage is!

[Megahurtz]

40. Well you just GUARANTEED your landslide loss

you fucker. :mad:

Go back under that fucking rock you crawled out from under!

[Poiuyt]

43. Interesting considering that he used to get big bucks lobbying FOR the pro-choice groups

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

47. What an idiot

Just like the current resident of the White House, this scumbag doesn't have a clue about what his powers would be.

Really, he is a loathsome, awful human being.

[Jade Fox]

48. The Republicans have been making that promise for decades....

When will their minions stop believing them?

[Yukari Yakumo]

50. Please win the nom, Fred

We'd so kick his ass in the general election with almost anybody.

[Banned_Wagon]

54. You say that like it matters

Who the next pResident will be. If we get the chance to elect a new one that is.. And with a Cat 5 Hurricane headed for the USA it's not looking to promising! Here comes our National Emergency!

[Banned_Wagon]

51. Don't you all just love how

Thompson has been able to avoid all the debates? Why hasn't he entered the race yet? Waiting for someone to leave their current position are we?
This mother fucker is being prepped for his Job as the next Fascist pResident. This asshole smells of Karl Rove.

[On the Road]

52. Stick a Fork in Him

He now has no chance.

And BTW, what does "he would overturn Roe v Wade" mean? Does he understand that there is a judicial branch of the federal government?

[Banned_Wagon]

53. The Judicial Branch is so Yesterday...

We are in a place now where our Attorney General plays Judge Jury and Executioner.. Puhhlease

[gollygee]

55. A law "requiring" gay marriage?

Is someone pushing a law requiring us to get married to people of the same sex? That's news to me.

What an ass.

[cgrindley]

57. He has a point with marriage laws

they really should be the same in every state. It really would cut down on discrimination. So... civil unions for all. Marriage for none!

[bicentennial_baby]

63. No, he doesn't...

I live in MA...No state is required to accept our marriage equality. The only states that do so are states that already have civil unions or those that do not have any specific ban on same sex marriage.

And, he wants to ban it outright, across the board...Do you really agree with that bigoted position?

[DRoseDARs]

58. Well, so much for gaining any of the independant or moderate votes in the general election.

Always nice to see a conservative lose an election in a landslide before the asshole has even officially entered the race. :thumbsup:

[Katherine Brengle]

61. Fuck Fred Thompson and the Nielsen ratings he rode in on.

Tool.

[Jamastiene]

64. What a fucking asshole.

Touch my damn body and be ready for a fight, motherfucker. Fuck you, Fred Thompson.

[Gloria]

65. He'll ban it for everybody except rich, white Republican gals....

It's almost impossible to believe that that this jackass could win this thing...God, Reagan redux...

[Quantess]

68. self edit

duplicate post.

[Quantess]

69. Dear Larry Flynt: can you please investigate his sexual insecurity?

Thank you, Larry Flynt, for exposing David Vitter-R, Louisiana, for his solicitation of diaper sex with prostitutes. You have given me hours of laughter.

I eagerly await your next expose' of a hypocrite!

[treestar]

70. How is he going to do that, by Executive Order?

What a moran.