Maryland for Fred Thompson

17 Days until the Iowa Caucuses
22 Days until the New Hampshire Primary
34 Days until the South Carolina Primary
44 Days until the Florida Primary

• J.B. Williams, The National Ledger:
  

  The experts are just now beginning to figure out what conservatives who drafted Thompson have known all along. He’s not only a serious leader, not only the real conservative in the race and not only a true people’s candidate. He is in fact the only candidate who can indeed unite the Republican Party behind a truly conservative platform at a time when the conservative base is fed up with Republicans who act more like Democrats.

  Of course he doesn’t take the so-called “debates” seriously. Do you? He’s right. They are nothing more than leftist-designed performing seal shows aimed at making all Republican candidates look foolish. Thompson is the only one smart enough to call it what it is.

• Washington Post:
  

  Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, surging in the polls for the GOP presidential nomination, faced criticism by two rivals yesterday.

  Fred D. Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee, said, “Liberal is the only word that comes to mind, when he was governor.”

  On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Thompson criticized Huckabee for his positions on illegal immigration, tax policy and Cuba, and for his belief that the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be shut down.

• Paul Ibrahim:
  

  Thompson holds the same conservative positions of all the other candidates combined, and has none of their flaws. In fact, any close observer of the campaign season would tell you that Thompson has been on the receiving end of barely any substantive attacks on policy issues. This is no coincidence. And it is the reason he has had to bear the brunt of shallow attacks about his demeanor, campaigning style, and laziness (whatever that means).

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  You know a candidate is solid when his biggest problem is his unwillingness to follow the pack on campaigning styles. You know you can trust a candidate when, unlike his opponents, he is regularly unmentioned by accuracy watchdogs like FactCheck.org following debates. And you know what you’re getting in a candidate whose campaign rhetoric so closely matches his legislative record.

  This Christmas, I want a Republican nominee who is both consistently conservative and viable in the general election. Fred Dalton Thompson is that nominee.

• Tom Puzzo, Manchester Union Leader:
  

  FRED THOMPSON is the best person to lead this country. He is a true conservative and has been his entire life. All one has to do is check his record to see this.

  Throughout my 30-year Air Force career, I served under eight Presidents (as my commanders in chief). Without argument, President Reagan was the best commander-in-chief a military person could ever have served under. Fred Thompson possesses the same qualities and vision as President Reagan in that he is strong on national defense and sees a dire need to secure our borders and control immigration.

  I can think of no better person to lead this country and fix the problems we have. He is the only candidate from either party who has specific and detailed plans on border security and immigration reform; revitalization of America’s armed forces; saving and protecting Social Security; and tax relief and economic growth. These are detailed on his Web site at www.fred08.com. I challenge you to find any other candidate who has laid out specific plans to fix anything.

• Rob at Say Anything:
  

  Anyone else thinking that it might be a good idea to elect a President who is willing to stand up to the media like this?