by Bill Berkowitz, Media Transparency: Despite their differences, social conservatives appear ready to give two thumbs up to the former Tennessee Senator, Hollywood actor, touted as the 'Ronald Reagan of the South,' when he finally tosses his hat into the ring. . . .According to the Boston Globe's Scott Helman, longtime social conservatives including Gary Bauer, a former presidential candidate who now leads American Values, a conservative public policy organization, and Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, Washington, D.C.'s most powerful conservative Christian lobbying group . . . seem willing to put any differences they might have with Thompson aside and embrace his candidacy. . . . "It's almost as if the man and the moment met," said Richard Land, who speaks for more than 16 million people as head of public policy for the nation's Southern Baptists. . . . Support for Thompson appears to be equally based on social conservatives' disdain for the top tier candidates -- former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and for Arizona Senator John McCain . . . . Talk2Action's Frank Cocozzelli, . . . monitoring and writing about the Catholic right, wrote that Fidelis . . . "has been tag-teaming with Bill Donohue's Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights to criticize Rudy Giuliani's position on abortion." Cella lashed out at Giuliani, saying that he "share[d] the exact same position on abortion as fellow Catholic John Kerry. As more people of faith who are pro-life begin to realize this, they will reject Giuliani's candidacy." . . . Thompson has been touting his campaign endorsements from the National Right to Life Committee. . . .
"Thompson has assiduously worked the leadership -- evangelical and traditionalist Catholic -- behind the scenes for some time,". . . "Taking his cues from Reagan in 1980 and Rove/Bush in 1998, Thompson has laid the requisite groundwork and cultivated a level of trust among this base that no other viable GOP Presidential candidate can match, well ahead of his speech at the Council for National Policy (CNP) in May that was followed by one-on-one meetings . . . Two weeks after that CNP speech, Paul Weyrich . . . in a commentary titled "The Man for A Desperate Hour: Fred Thompson" . . . compared Thompson to Reagan. It's a done deal." . . . [Read More]
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