Comments on: McCain’s One Note Campaign http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/19/one-note-campaign/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Wayne A. Schneider http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/06/19/one-note-campaign/comment-page-1/#comment-1404 Wayne A. Schneider Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:34:47 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/19/one-note-campaign/#comment-1404 <em>And then today we had Fred Thompson, who said last fall that McCain was “clearly moving away from what I consider to be the sound constitutional, traditional principles that the Reagan coalition was founded upon,” slamming Obama’s adherence to constitutional principles.</em> Reagan's coalition was in no way founded on "sound, constitutional principles", and Americans need to be educated on that fact. He, and the Republicans who adored and followed him, worked very hard to dismantle the constitutional guarantees we know as our "civil rights". As he so capably demonstrated throughout his own campaign for president, Fred Thompson doesn't know what he's talking about. And then today we had Fred Thompson, who said last fall that McCain was “clearly moving away from what I consider to be the sound constitutional, traditional principles that the Reagan coalition was founded upon,” slamming Obama’s adherence to constitutional principles.

Reagan’s coalition was in no way founded on “sound, constitutional principles”, and Americans need to be educated on that fact. He, and the Republicans who adored and followed him, worked very hard to dismantle the constitutional guarantees we know as our “civil rights”. As he so capably demonstrated throughout his own campaign for president, Fred Thompson doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

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