{"id":48,"date":"2007-11-12T19:04:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2007\/11\/fred-thompson-to-pick-up-the-n.html"},"modified":"2007-11-12T19:04:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T19:04:52","slug":"fred-thompson-to-pick-up-the-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2007\/11\/fred-thompson-to-pick-up-the-n.html","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thompson to pick up the National Right to Life  endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,310778,00.html\">According to Fox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has won the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, the largest U.S. antiabortion group, three sources tell FOX News.<br \/>\nThe announcement is scheduled to be made Tuesday in Washington D.C.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\nThe endorsement follows a series of heavy-hitting endorsements for Republicans from conservative groups in recent days, and is an important grab for Thompson who has been struggling to make his late-bloomer campaign more competitive.<br \/>\nLast Wednesday, GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani snagged an endorsement from evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson: an announcement that drowned-out what would have been a big nod for Arizona Sen. John McCain on any other day, the backing of Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas. Brownback has long been a favorite of conservative Christians, and threw his support behind McCain after dropping his own candidacy last month.<br \/>\nAnd earlier in the week, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney received an endorsement from another conservative leader, Paul Weyrich, founding president of The Heritage Foundation and cofounder of the Moral Majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully this will revive his candidacy a little (yes, I&#8217;m still a Fredhead). This is really a good pick up for Thompson if the rumors turn out to be true.  It would be helpful for him to get an endorsement from someone outside of Tenn. \ud83d\ude42 and a much better endorsement than Pat Robertson.<br \/>\nThe question is: why didn&#8217;t it go to Huckabee?<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/12\/reportrumor-the-national-right-to-life-committee-will-announce-a-presidential-endorsement-tomorrow\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox: Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has won the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, the largest U.S. antiabortion group, three sources tell FOX News. The announcement is scheduled to be made Tuesday in Washington D.C. 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