Is there a true conservative who has a chance to win the Republican nomination?

Rudy Giuliani and John McCain are way too liberal on many issues. Mitt Romney flip-flops just like John Kerry. Ron Paul is on some other planet. I like Tom Tancredo but he has no chance. Is Fred Thompson the best chance for a real conservative to get the nod?

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1. Fred Thompson with Mitt as Vice sounds like a good match!
2. Conservatism is dead. You can thank George W Bush for that. All he offerered the cons was tax cuts and they took it while letting him gut their conservative ideals. They took tax cuts and got deficit spendind, pork upon more pork, interventionist wars, bigger government, more govenrment intrusion into personal lives. I hope they enjoyed their tax cuts.
3. Fred Thompson is not a real conservative. Conservatives who look to Thompson for salvation need to pause and consider his record—a record that includes these votes: Americans For Better Immigration rated his voting record with a "C" grade. http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop1.html Tancredo, Ron Paul, and Hunter all have much more conservative voting records on immigration. http://www.betterimmigration.com/candidates/2006/prez08_gop2.html As a confirmed member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Thompson would support the North American Union. http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html http://youtube.com/watch?v=kXevDajb2lo The CFR wants to allow Mexican trucks "unlimited access" to the United States, including the hauling of local loads between U.S. cities. The CFR calls for creating a "North American preference" so that employers can recruit low-paid workers from anywhere in North America. No longer will illegal aliens have to be smuggled across the border; employers can openly recruit foreigners willing to work for a fraction of U.S. wages. The CFR plan calls for massive U.S. foreign aid to the other countries. The burden on the U.S. taxpayers will include so-called "multilateral development" from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, "long-term loans in pesos," and a North American Investment Fund to send U.S. private capital to Mexico. As a proponent of free trade Thompson would support the the NAFTA Superhighway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBmFrYWPoG8 http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul349.html http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Fred_Thompson.htm#Free_Trade "Indeed, the image of the highway, with its Chinese goods whizzing across the border borne by Mexican truckers on a privatized, foreign-operated road, is almost mundane in its plausibility. "Construction of the NAFTA highway from Laredo, Texas to Canada is now underway," read a letter in the February 13 San Gabriel Valley Tribune. "Spain will own most of the toll roads that connect to the superhighway. Mexico will own and operate the Kansas City Smart Port. And NAFTA tribunal, not the U.S. Supreme Court, will have the final word in trade disputes." He also voted: ♦ FOR restricting the rights of grassroots organizations to communicate with the public. See ACU’s vote 3, 1998. ♦ AGAINST an accelerated elimination of the “marriage penalty.” See ACU’s vote 10, 2001. ♦ AGAINST restraints on federal spending, specifically the Phil Gramm (R-TX) amendment to limit non-defense discretionary spending to the fiscal 1997 levels requested by President Clinton. See ACU’s vote 6, 1997. ♦ FOR the Legal Services Corporation, the perennial liberal boondoggle that provides political activism disguised as “legal services” to Democratic constituencies. See ACU’s vote 16, 1995, and vote 17, 1999. ♦ FOR corporate welfare, specifically the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). See ACU’s vote 23. 1999. ♦ AGAINST worker and shareholder rights, specifically the Hatch (R-UT) amendment to require unions and corporations to obtain permission from dues-paying members or shareholders before spending money on political activities. See ACU’s votes 4 and 5, 2001. ♦ FOR restricting the First Amendment (free speech) rights of independent groups. See ACU’s vote 23, 1997. ♦ FOR President Clinton’s nomination of Dr. David Satcher as U.S. Surgeon General. Among other things, Satcher opposed a full ban on partial-birth abortion. See ACU’s vote 1, 1998. ♦ FOR handouts to politicians, specifically taxpayer funding of presidential campaigns. See ACU’s vote 6, 1995. ♦ FOR handouts to politicians, specifically congressional perks such as postage and broadcast time funded by taxpayers. See ACU’s vote 13, 1996. ♦ AGAINST property rights and FOR unlimited presidential power, specifically by allowing President Clinton to implement the American Heritage Rivers Initiative, which he established by executive order, without congressional approval. See ACU’s vote 20, 1997. ♦ FOR affirmative action in federal contracts. See ACU’s vote 9, 1995. ♦ FOR an increase in the minimum wage, which, of course, increases unemployment among the young and poor. See ACU’s vote 16, 1996. ♦ FOR open-ended military commitments, specifically in regard to U.S. troops in Kosovo. See ACU’s vote 8, 2000. ♦ FOR the trial lawyers lobby, and specifically against a bill that would put common-sense limitations on the medical malpractice suits that increase health costs for all of us. (Of course! He’s been a trial lawyer himself for some three decades.) See ACU’s vote 18, 2002. ♦ FOR allowing the IRS to require political and policy organizations to disclose their membership—a vote against the constitutional rights of free association and privacy. (The Clinton Administration used such IRS intimidation against conservative groups that opposed them.) See ACU’s vote 11, 2000. ♦ AGAINST impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, specifically the reappointment and reauthorization of managers (drawn from the Republican membership of the House Judiciary Committee) to conduct the impeachment trial in the Senate. See ACU’s vote 1, 1999. There you have it. The actor who talks like a tough conservative has, in his real political life, voted in all these ways to increase the power of the federal government, limit the rights of taxpayers and individual citizens, and shut grassroots activists out of the political process. Ronald Reagan he is NOT! http://www.conservativesbetrayed.com/gw3/articles-latestnews/articles.php?CMSArticleID=1827&CMSCategoryID=19 I will be voting for Ron Paul.
4. Huckabee...Fred Thompson took money to lobby FOR a pro-choice group
5. No. Conservatism is dead. Sorry - check back in 8 years. Your president killed the "conservative movement".
6. There are no true conservatives in the race. so, no!
7. The so-called "Conservatives" in Washington are no better than liberals. They do nothing more than waste our money while drinking the party Kool-Aid. I'd rather have Rudy, a moderate who stands up for his true views, than Thompson / Romney / Tancredo / Huckabee / Brownback or any other neocon. The only TRUE Conservative running is good, old-fashioned, Barry Goldwater-style paleocon Ron Paul.
8. Mitt Romney. Why do you think he flip flops on everything just because he became pro-life? Did you know that a family friend engaged to marry somebody in his family died from the results of an illegal abortion? The reason he was pro choice was to make sure that couldn't happen again. On the other hand, he gets criticized for going pro-life again, while anybody going the other direction would be praised for being corageous enough to become pro-choice. Go figure. Otherwise, he is very conservative and very good at what he does with money.
9. Tom Tancredo. I helped put him in office and want him to be in the Oval Office.... Anyone who is persona non grata in DC deserves your vote. We need a WAR president, not the 20 year continuation of APPEASEMENT types in DC... And NOT HITLERY.... Leader of the National Socialists
10. Rudy Giuliani is. He is the champion of the major conservative issues: Energy Independence , Offense against terrorism, securing the border and low taxes. Energy Independence is the most important American issue. Even if you are democrat you should vote for him because he is the ONLY candidate who will make this country energy independent! Look at hillary's "energy plan", she will not make us energy independent. The only way to win the global war with militant islam is through energy independence. The true cost of oil dependence is staggeringly huge. And the fact is, he WILL nominate conservative supreme court justices and Hillary will NOT. Rudy is the most intelligent and articulate candidate out there, much more so than Hillary or Fred Thompson.
11. no
12. Ron Paul is a true conservative.