By LIBBY QUAID
The Associated Press
Tuesday, November 13, 2007; 7:45 PM

WASHINGTON -- Fred Thompson is the Republican most likely to beat abortion-rights supporter Rudy Giuliani, the National Right to Life Committee said Tuesday, announcing its endorsement of the former Tennessee senator for president.

Fred's stance on many important issues such as national security, the budget, taxes, and healthcare can be found here.

Tampa Tribune

By William March

LAKELAND, Sep. 16, 2007 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) --

Fred Thompson is aiming his campaign at the conservative end of the Republican Party and he's shaking up the Florida presidential primary.

Drawing large, excited crowds during his first tour of Florida as a declared candidate last week, Thompson sought to offer Republicans something many feel has been missing in the GOP field -- a Reaganesque communicator with the charisma to lift the party out of its deep political hole.

Washington Times, Opinion

Chris Edwards - There has been a void in the Republican presidential race. The party's candidates have spoken about immigration, taxes, social issues and the war in Iraq. Mitt Romney, Rudolph Giuliani and John McCain have also spoken frequently about Ronald Reagan in order to position themselves as the political heirs to the great president.

The candidates, however, have overlooked a central idea that animated Mr. Reagan's view of government. That was federalism, the constitutional principle that the federal government's responsibilities are "few and defined" as James Madison put it.

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By BEVERLY KEEL
Staff Writer, Tennessean.com

If her husband is elected president, Jeri Thompson will be the youngest first lady since Jacqueline Kennedy. But unlike Kennedy, a glittering socialite whose style created an image as strong as her husband's, Thompson is a mystery woman to most Americans.

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Associated Press
By LIZ SIDOTI

DES MOINES, Iowa - Fred Thompson - veteran actor, former Republican senator - launched his bid for the presidency Hollywood style. "I'm running for president of the United States," Thompson told Jay Leno in a taped appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show" airing Wednesday.

Christian Science Monitor
By Linda Feldmann
Washington

He has played both a real president (Ulysses S. Grant) and a fictional one on TV, and now, at last, former actor/senator/lobbyist Fred Thompson is ready to audition for the real deal, as he unveils his presidential campaign via webcast on Thursday.

The 6-foot, 6-inch Tennesseean enters the race late and with sky-high expectations. National polls of Republican voters typically put Mr. Thompson in second place, behind former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

But polls also show "none of the above" scoring well or even at times in the lead %u2013 a sign, say Thompson backers, that GOP voters are unhappy with their choices. That's good news for Thompson, who was drafted to run after another former Tennessee senator, Bill Frist, opted out of the race. Now that Thompson is a full-fledged candidate, his supporters say, voters once hesitant about buying into a quasi-candidate can say he's their man.

Here%u2019s what the New York Daily News editorial page is saying about Fred Thompson%u2026

%u201CThompson is absolutely pro-life, period, no waffling about it.%u201D

%u201CHe is solidly pro-Second Amendment, period, no dithering.%u201D

%u201CHe%u2019s a gung-ho war on terror man, a no-nonsense border security man.%u201D

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