{"id":2362,"date":"2007-04-09T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/fred-thompson-has-received-his.html"},"modified":"2007-04-09T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T21:07:00","slug":"fred-thompson-has-received-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/fred-thompson-has-received-his.html","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thompson has received his first newspaper endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have any other papers endorsed a candidate yet?  Thompson may be the first candidate of this primary to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxmemphis.com\/myfox\/pages\/News\/Detail?contentId=2883482&amp;version=3&amp;locale=EN-US&amp;layoutCode=TSTY&amp;pageId=3.2.1\">receive an endorsement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former Republican U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson has not yet said if he is a presidential candidate, but a Chattanooga editorial page has joined a &#8220;draft Fred&#8221; movement with an endorsement of the actor and attorney 19 months before the election.<br \/>\nThe Chattanooga Times Free Press has two separate opinion pages, and the traditionally conservative side under the masthead of the Chattanooga Free Press published the endorsement editorial Monday, saying Thompson &#8220;has not declined&#8221; growing encouragement for him to seek the presidency.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is significant that while there are many actively seeking the presidency of the United States, there is one outstanding individual who is not &#8212; but is being sought because he has demonstrated many unique qualities of sound principle, possesses wisdom gained from proved experience, has admirable qualities of character and has displayed a cooperative spirit of good will that could inspire a great majority of Americans to unify enthusiastically to elect him,&#8221; the editorial said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They want Thompson and they don&#8217;t care that he&#8217;s not in the race.  If this keeps up, Thompson will be forced to enter the race just to keep us from electing him whether he runs or not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Fred+Thompson\" rel=\"tag\">Fred Thompson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/presidential+candidate\" rel=\"tag\">presidential candidate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/election\" rel=\"tag\">election<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Republican\" rel=\"tag\">Republican<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/primary\" rel=\"tag\">primary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/politics+\" rel=\"tag\">politics <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have any other papers endorsed a candidate yet? Thompson may be the first candidate of this primary to receive an endorsement. Former Republican U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson has not yet said if he is a presidential candidate, but a Chattanooga editorial page has joined a &#8220;draft Fred&#8221; movement with an endorsement of the actor and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fred Thompson has received his first newspaper endorsement - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/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\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/04\/fred-thompson-has-received-his.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fred Thompson has received his first newspaper endorsement - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Have any other papers endorsed a candidate yet? 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