| October 19, 2007--Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) addressed the Washington
Briefing: Values Voter Summit. "I'm proud to say that over eight
years on national issues, I was a consistent conservative -- cutting taxes,
balancing the budget, reducing regulation, promoting welfare reform, fighting
for good conservative judges with a hundred percent pro-life voting record,
and I'm proud of that record," Thompson said. "That's who I was then,
that's who I am today, and that's the kind of president I would be," he
said. Thompson discussed judicial activism, noting his role
in assisting the confirmation of Judge John Roberts as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, and he devoted some of his speech to entitlement programs,
describing the situation as a moral issue. "We're going to run out,
and we are now borrowing against and we'll be increasingly borrowing against
the next generation," he said. |
