{"id":101,"date":"2007-11-12T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/right-to-life-group-to-back-th.html"},"modified":"2007-11-12T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T20:02:02","slug":"right-to-life-group-to-back-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/right-to-life-group-to-back-th.html","title":{"rendered":"Right to Life Group to Back Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson apparently is about to get the boost he was hoping for in his troubled courtship of social conservatives. Citing anonymous Republican sources, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/12\/AR2007111200753.html\">AP is reporting <\/a>today that the National Right to Life Committee\u2014the nation\u2019s most prominent anti-abortion group with local chapters in all 50 states\u2014will endorse the former Tennessee senator tomorrow morning.<br \/>\nWhile the organization refuses to discuss the pending announcement, its endorsement is seen as an acknowledgement of Thompson\u2019s strong pro-life voting record while in the Senate. Campaigning in Iowa, Thompson had this to say about the annoucement, according to the AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt speaks for itself,\u201d an upbeat Thompson told reporters while campaigning here\u2014even as he talked in hypothetical terms and declined to confirm the endorsement. \u201cThese are people who supported me in times past. I think it would be a perfectly natural thing to happen. I&#8217;ve had a 100 percent pro-life voting record in the United States Senate. And I think they know that, and that&#8217;s the way I would govern if I was president.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement comes at a critical time for Thompson. His polling numbers have slipped in <a href=\"http:\/\/americanresearchgroup.com\/pres08\/iarep8-711.html\">Iowa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/americanresearchgroup.com\/pres08\/nhrep8-711.html\">New Hampshire <\/a>recently, and he was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/can-fred-get-an-amen.html\">left in the cold <\/a>last week when prominent Christian right groups were handing out endorsements to several of his GOP rivals. Despite his Senate voting record on abortion, and his conservative credentials generally, many evangelicals have been put off by Thompson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/thompson-says-no-to-gop-aborti.html\">refusal to back a constitutional amendment <\/a>banning abortion. The NRLC\u2019s endorsement should help polish his image among that important Republican constituency.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Thompson apparently is about to get the boost he was hoping for in his troubled courtship of social conservatives. Citing anonymous Republican sources, the AP is reporting today that the National Right to Life Committee\u2014the nation\u2019s most prominent anti-abortion group with local chapters in all 50 states\u2014will endorse the former Tennessee senator tomorrow morning.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-thompson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Right to Life Group to Back Thompson - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/right-to-life-group-to-back-th.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Right to Life Group to Back Thompson - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fred Thompson apparently is about to get the boost he was hoping for in his troubled courtship of social conservatives. 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