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Jihad Spence: Fred Thompson's Pan-Islamist Campaign Manager
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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-07-27 12:31|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 A couple of very, very poor picks by big Fred. Thankfully, Debbie's still on duty. Big Fred is whiling away his opportunity, if he ever had one. It's just that the remainder of the crowd is soooo bad that Fred attracts attention at all. I have liked many of Fred's opinions, but this bodes poorly for his actual judgement on critical matters. Even Newton lowered the boom on him in a commentary the other day. Tancredo is much more honest and a better politician altogether, but, sadly attracts little mention nationally.
Posted by Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-07-27 13:18||   2007-07-27 13:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't think he really wants to be president. Takes too much time from his other interests.
Posted by ed 2007-07-27 13:35||   2007-07-27 13:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Hillary's looking better and better.
Posted by Perfesser 2007-07-27 14:37||   2007-07-27 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Sucked in by the cleavage, eh, Perfesser...
Posted by tu3031 2007-07-27 14:54||   2007-07-27 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Sucked in by the cleavage, eh, Perfesser...

eeeewwwwwwwwww,

lol thanks tu!
Posted by RD">RD  2007-07-27 15:42||   2007-07-27 15:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Evidently Spencer Abraham did some groundbreaking work in revamping the Michigan GOP. Maybe he sniffs a way to reactivate Reagan Democrats?

Or maybe Fred! waited so long that this is the best athlete campaign manager available.
Posted by eLarson 2007-07-27 16:45|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-07-27 16:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Politely put—by this no-longer democrat—Thompson just screwed the pooch.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-27 16:55||   2007-07-27 16:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, if he's lost the Zen vote, he's lost America, huh?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-07-27 18:11||   2007-07-27 18:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Schlussel is, to put it politely, nuts. A campaign manager isn't a puppet master.
Posted by JSU 2007-07-27 18:36||   2007-07-27 18:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Deb Schlussel is an ignorant ass and it is not the first time she has veered off into the land of the shoe-size IQs. The rest of you trying to smear Thompson with this are headed the same place.

Without hitting google or the net, can you off the top of your head name Giuliani's manager or Romney's or Hillary's?

No?

The why does Fred's matter?

Abraham is called into run the campaign.

FRED is who is running and FRED sets the policy and he has been VERY clear on where he stands on CAIR. Anyone claiming otherwise is a brainless moronic basher, and will have ME verbally beating on them worse than a Taliban Mullah on a Playboy Fatwah binge.

Here, educate your dumb asses (Fred Thompson 6/20 in his blog and ABC News Radio):

I've talked before about the Council on American-Islamic Relations -- most recently because it filed that lawsuit against Americans who reported suspicious behavior by Muslims on a U.S. Airways flight. Better known just as CAIR, the lobbying group has come under a lot of scrutiny lately for its connections to terror-supporting groups. This time, though, The Washington Times has uncovered some very good news about the group.

For years, CAIR has claimed to represent millions of American Muslims. In fact, they claim to represent more Muslim in American than ... there are in America. This has alarmed Americans in general as the group often seems to be more aligned with our enemies than us -- which isn't surprising as it spun off from a group funded by Hamas. As you know, Hamas has been waging a terrorist war against Israel and calls for its total destruction. It also promises to see America destroyed. Nowadays, Hamas is busy murdering its Palestinian political rivals.

Even with this history, and CAIR's conspicuous failure to condemn Hamas by name, it has been treated as if represents Muslim Americans by our own government. The good news is that the financial support CAIR claims to have among American Muslims is a myth. We know this because The Washington Times got hold of the group's IRS tax records.

CAIR's dues-paying membership has shrunk 90 percent since 9/11 -- from 29,000 in 2000 to only 1,700 last year. CAIR's annual income from dues plunged from $733,000 to $59,000. Clearly, America's Muslims are not supporting this group -- and I'm happy to hear about it.

Of course, every silver lining seems to have a cloud; and this cloud is that CAIR's spending is running about $3 million a year. They’ve opened 25 new chapters in major cities across the country even as their dues shrank to a pittance. The question is; who’s funding CAIR?

CAIR's not saying. The New York Times earlier this year reported that the backing is from "wealthy Persian Gulf governments" including the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Obviously, we have a bigger problem here than the one with CAIR.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:09||   2007-07-27 19:09|| Front Page Top

#11 don't bother, OS. Facts don't matter to a few here
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-07-27 19:18||   2007-07-27 19:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Dimwit Deb omits the following FACTS:

Abraham is NOT going to be setting economic or energy policy, Fred Thompson is and already has.

Abraham is NOT going to be setting foreign policy , Fred Thompson is and already has (see above)

Abraham is NOT going to be setting ANY policy, Fred Thompson is and already has.

Abraham will likely NOT be on the cabinet.

He was hired to MANAGE A CAMPAIGN. Not Direct policy, not hire and fire, not give info to CAIR or any ohter group. His job is to make sure peopl eget to where they are supposed to be, make sure peopel are doing their jobs like buyin ads in the right markets, get donors and candidates hooked up with each other, and that is IT. Manager. M A N A G E R for you slow Debwits out there.

Deb is too gutless to even take comments on her blog post for this.

Whats the matter Deb, scared we will verbally rip into your post and destroy it? Chickenshit.

Well, maybe you should THINK before you write stuff that can be shredded, you dimwit.

She's an Ann Coulter wannbee with less sense, half the brains and only 1/10 the looks.




Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:22||   2007-07-27 19:22|| Front Page Top

#13 For years, CAIR has claimed to represent millions of American Muslims. In fact, they claim to represent more Muslims in America than ... there are in America. This has alarmed Americans in general as the group often seems to be more aligned with our enemies than us -- which isn't surprising as it spun off from a group funded by Hamas. As you know, Hamas has been waging a terrorist war against Israel and calls for its total destruction. It also promises to see America destroyed.

All the more reason to have this bunch of traitors deported.

Well, if he's lost the Zen vote, he's lost America, huh?

I certainly hope not. Your mileage version might vary.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-27 19:32||   2007-07-27 19:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Bottom line, I guess I do have to spell it out:

Spencer Abraham was hired to set up a competitive campaign organization in Michigan, something he is very adept at doing. He will also help pry some large donations loose from MI GOP political types, something he has done well in the past. That is the extent of his involvement. No policy, no CAIR, none of that.

Dimwit Deb thinks Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame is a terror threat. Google it.

Ditto Schlussel, the idiot who went on about the "Mexican eagle" pin,

Anyone treating Dimwit Deb as a reliable source of information on this is a fool.

Read more here at other CONSERVATIVE blogs

http://www.nicedoggie.net/2006/?p=252

An exceprt:

Of course, being a vacuous vaporbrain like you, you never felt the need to check your own facts, but that’s not much of an excuse, now is it?

You’re lazy and dumb.

Whoopie for you.

...

So you see its not the first time Dimwit Deb has lashed out and been dead WRONG.

She’s an overpaid cow.

I could do better than her without even trying, but I haven’t got her boobs.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:33||   2007-07-27 19:33|| Front Page Top

#15 By the way, look for a lot of that to disappear - she's very adept at deleting her embarringsly stupid rants.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/04/who_is_the_asia.html

Compare that to her original content that tried to pin the VaTech shootings on a Paki muslim student.

Here's what we know about the murderer of at least 32 students and maimer of at least 28 more at Virginia Tech, today:

* The murderer has been identified by law enforcement and media reports as "a young Asian male."
* The Virginia Tech campus has a very large Muslim community, many of which are from Pakistan (per terrorism investigator Bill Warner).
* Pakis are considered "Asian."
* There were 2 attacks at least half a mile apart.
* There have been at least two bomb threats to this campus in the last two weeks.

Deb is stunningly stupid.

THIS is what passes for reason from her:

Congressmen who are liberal are more likely to have slutty daughters. And therefore, they are more likely to support abortion for selfish, personal reasons."

See what I mean?

Stupid down to the marrow.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:38||   2007-07-27 19:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Other opinions for the Right on Deb Schlussel

Really, why aren’t you on medication? You’re the right’s version of the unhinged moonbat. Quit pretending to be right of center–you are an embarrassment, distressingly like Fred Phelps. We’re all tired of your deranged, negative bloviating. Is there ANYTHING you actually support or for which you have ANYTHING positive to say? You’re Johnny-One-Note. Bitch, bitch, bitch.

And now threatening to kill my friend? Sorry, BITCH, you’re going to have to answer to a lot of us for that one. Nobody’s going to have any “reading comprehension” problems with that crack. You’re just full of shit.

Goddamned nutcase.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:39||   2007-07-27 19:39|| Front Page Top

#17 And before you try to post there, she is notorious for deleting comments that she cannot counter (which is likely most of the critical ones, since she's so damn stupid).
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:42||   2007-07-27 19:42|| Front Page Top

#18 She is basically considered a less intelligent more venemous female version of Michael Savage.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:43||   2007-07-27 19:43|| Front Page Top

#19 By the way, regarding Spencer Abraham:

He is a member of the Federalist Society and Ann Coulter worked for him at one time.

And you have NOT heard Fred's side of this either - just a nutbag moron internet columnist, Dimwit Deb.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 19:53||   2007-07-27 19:53|| Front Page Top

#20 Damn, post number 15 is just plain scary enraging, OldSpook.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-07-27 20:06||   2007-07-27 20:06|| Front Page Top

#21 Guys, I've blown my stack on this. I have met Ms Schlussel one informally (I doubt she remembers me), and lets just say she is on a very short list with me of despicable people that I have no pity for and extreme animus towards. That list includes Fred Phelps too.

So you know what this hit me.

Time for a timeout.

See you guys later. Pardon the outburst, but like I said, few people I despise, and Dimwit Deb is there with "Rev" Phelps.

My wife called me on losing my temper too, so she's taking me out for a good steak, some single malt scotch and a cigar.

I'm going to owe her big for this. Heh.
Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 20:16||   2007-07-27 20:16|| Front Page Top

#22 Debbie Schlussel was sort of a Howard Stern associate wack-packer for a while. Last year, she wrote that the "new superman" looked "gay." A constant theme in her column is: the feminization of the American male. She has lots of free time, her being a Jerry McGuire type sports attorney. How much free time would it take to squeeze sports team owners, and then collect your 10%? However, she spends much of her ample free time hunting local Islamofascists. She does that well.
Posted by McZoid 2007-07-27 21:02||   2007-07-27 21:02|| Front Page Top

#23 One last piece. This was written by Fred Thompson and posted to his blog today.

(This post begins with the judicial overreach and overturn of the Hazelton Conn law requiring illegals be deported per local ordinance as well as (unenforced) Federal laws but dips deeply into the proper role fo each level of government and how to best promote individual liberty)

http://fredfile.imwithfred.com/2007/on-federalism/

Do these words below sound like those of a man who would let *anyone* move him in a direction other than Federalist Conservative? Go read it all. Its one of the best cases for Federalism I have EVER read.



We need to allow local authorities to apply their own good ideas and use their own good judgment. Each state can find its own way, learning from the successes and failures of the others. There is a wealth of creativity and initiative out there in the states, and often the best ideas in Washington started out as state initiatives.

A good example of this early in my Senate service was welfare reform. We were warned that terrible things would happen if we went forward with a bill – a fundamental commitment would be abandoned and, among state governments, a “race to the bottom” would begin.

But key to our approach were elements of welfare reform that had proved successful in various states, such as Colorado, Michigan and Wisconsin. The result was a law that allowed us to better meet our commitments to our fellow citizens. It was one of the great political successes of the 1990’s, because Washington – for once – had the good sense to learn from state and local authorities and empower them in return.

When you hold firm to the principles of federalism, there’s another advantage: our federal government can better carry out its own defining responsibilities – above all else, the security of our nation and the safety of our citizens. Sometimes I think that our leaders in Washington try to do so many things, in so many areas, that they lose sight of their basic responsibilities.

We saw some improvement in the post-1994, “Contract with America” takeover of Congress – strings to federal programs were cut, more federal programs were being turned over to states, historic legislation to reduce unfunded mandates became law, and we rolled back the Clinton anti-federalism executive order. But in recent years we’ve seen backsliding.

The recent immigration bill was a case in point. That bill failed, and it failed for good reason. The federal government simply had no credibility on the issue.

The promises of the 1986 immigration bill have not been fulfilled. Current laws have not been enforced. The federal government has been failing in its fundamental responsibility to control the borders. Worse, when state officials have tried to act with reforms of their own, federal authorities have gotten in the way. In the end, many in both parties in Congress have learned a lesson: promises about immigration reform aren’t worth much unless you have credibility. And in this case there’s only one way that credibility can be regained. Federal leaders must do their job and secure the borders of the United States.

...

It is not enough to say that we are “for” federalism, because in today’s world it is not always clear what that means. What we are “for” is liberty for our citizens. Federalism divides power between the states and government in Washington. It is a tool to promote freedom. How we draw the line between federal and state roles in this century, and how we stay true to the principles of federalism for the purpose of protecting economic and individual freedom are questions we must answer. Our challenge – meaning the federal government, the states, our communities and constituents – is to answer these questions together.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-07-27 23:49||   2007-07-27 23:49|| Front Page Top

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