Fred Thompson Running for President

Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations...
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Fred Thompson U.S. Congress File Photo

GOP Strikes Back at Al Gore Over Terror

On the threat of terrorism, Mr. Gore writes that instead of making it better, the president "has made it worse. We are less safe because of his policy. He has created more anger and righteous indignation against us than any leader of our country in all the years of our existence as a nation."... Gore also criticized the administration's failure to prevent the attacks of September 11, 2001, writing that the Clinton administration responded much more proactively to terrorist threats than did the current administration when it received warnings during the summer of 2001 ... [Response from the Republican National Committee] "Either Al Gore is trying to reinvent himself as being tough on terror or he has forgotten he was vice president of an administration whose approach to terrorism was far from effective," a spokeswoman, Summer Johnson, said...

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Congress file photo

Richardson Enters '08 Presidential Race

In English and Spanish, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday declared himself a candidate to become the first Hispanic president of the United States -- without the "rock star" status of some of his rivals.

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File Photo from NM Governor Website

GOP S.C. Debate

TheState.com website has a very good write-up on the GOP Debate Tuesday night, May 15, 2007. It goes in part like this... Giuliani’s top moment has been replayed over and over on television and streaming Internet video. It might have catapulted him from a decent debate performance to a strong one. As soon as Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, said the Sept. 11 attacks might have been caused by U.S. military action in Iraq, Giuliani pounced.
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** The Paul - Rudy exchange in video below **
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GOP Candidates to meet in First Debate Tonight

Ten of the GOP Candidates running for President will get after it in the first GOP Debate Tonight. The 90-minute debate will be held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. MSNBC and The Politico are the co-sponsors of the debate and it will be moderated by Chris Matthews.

Airtime is from 7:00pm CDT – 8:30pm CDT on the MSNBC Cable News Channel.

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