Stamford, Conn.-- If there were any lingering worries that it is too late for Fred Thompson to jump into the Republican presidential race, they appeared to be assuaged last night by Republican activists in a state widely considered to be a hopeless cause for the conservative Tennessean.
As the guest speaker at the Connecticut GOP’s Prescott Bush dinner here at the Stamford Sheraton Hotel, television actor and former Tennessee Sen. Thompson wowed the standing-room-only crowd with his calls for U.S. success in Iraq (“We’re not about surrender or retreat.”)
And not permitting aliens to “just wander in” over the border. In addition, Thompson drew prolonged applause from the 600-plus paying guests when he said that “we didn’t lose [the midterm elections of ‘06”] because of Iraq” but rather because of “pork barrel spending.”
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