Thompson Attacks!!!

Recently Fred Thompson appeared on "Fox News On Sunday" hosted by Chris Wallace. Chris Wallace certainly pushed some of Thompson's button by showing two clips of conservatives negatively criticizing Thompson. The two critics were Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer, both FOX analysts. To their harsh criticism Thompson replied, "From Day One, they said I got in too late, I couldn't do it. ... wouldn't raise enough money, and that sort of thing. And that's their opinion. They're entitled to their opinion. But that doesn't seem to be shared by the cross section of American people. If you look at the national polls, you'll see that I'm running second and have been running second for a long time." It may seem like Thompson is attempting to justify the negative comments of the critics, but it could also be a retaliation against all those that say he isn't passionate of has no flare. While on the show Thompson accused the FOX network of being against him and claimed that FOX only highlights the negative aspects of his campaign, "For you to highlight nothing but the negative in terms of these polls, and then put on your own guys, who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn't do it, you know, kind of skews things a little bit." His appearance on this show is one of the few times that Thompson has shown an effervescent will to win the nomination.
This, however, is not the first time that Thompson goes on the attack. Recently Thompson attacked Mike Huckabee and his views on abortion. This once more shows an attempt by Thompson to show ardor and fight back the accusations that he is lazy and without spirit. Although Thompson attacked Huckabee, Huckabee quickly responded by accusing Thompson of being unclear about what his views on abortion are. Although Huckabee retaliated, Thompson is right in attempting to show passion and excitement, because he has dramatically lost popularity ever since he entered the race. Hopefully these demonstrations of energy and enthusiasm will serve him in increasing his popularity.

Thompson Unveils Social Security Solution

On Novermber 9, Fred Thompson became the first candidate from either party to offer a detailed Social Security plan for the next presidential election. Earlier, Thompson noted that under the current system, today's youth will be "saddled with enormous deficits, taxes, and problematic retirement programs." The new plan involves cutting the growth of benefits, rather than raising taxes, and will include private retirement accounts, where the government would supplement every dollar saved with an additional $2.50, up to a maximum of $12,000 a year. Thompson's proposal represents a move towards privatisation, and with the first primaries less than 3 months away, Democrats quickly attacked the plan: Senator Barack Obama claimed that the plan would "undermine" the promise of secure retirement. Thompson hopes that he will gain support for confronting one of the election's major issues early on and criticized the other candidates, saying "Nobody wants to talk about it, except to say it's a big problem and then change the subject."