Word: soapbox
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...again. While pressing the flesh, he made sure to dismiss criticism that he has been waiting too long to enter the race. "I wasn't around when they made those rules and I'm not abiding by them," he said during a brief speech at the traditional fair soapbox. "We've got plenty of time...
Polls show Thompson placing second behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the Ames straw poll winner. Ames, though, gave a bump to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who is trying to claim the conservative mantle in the race - a title that Thompson was clearly aiming for in his soapbox speech when he proclaimed himself "strongly pro-life" and pro-gun rights...
Thompson chatted amiably with Grassley about everything from sports to immigration to judicial nominees, pausing only at Grassley's urging to shake hands with fans. "We appreciate you sticking up for the U.S. We think you're right," one woman told Thompson. At the soapbox Thompson had voiced his impatience with the U.S. feeling that it has to apologize for every move in the world it makes. "This nation has shed more blood bringing peace to others," Thompson said. "I'm tired of apologizing for being the United State of America...
...made about pork barrel spending, Thompson was quick to stress that one of the central tenets of his campaign is a conservative push to cut spending - particularly from entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid which he called "gradually bankrupting future generations in this country." In his soapbox speech, he accused other G.O.P. candidates of ignoring the budget, "other than giving lip service to it," he said...
...legislation that was killed in Congress this spring. His plan, and its flourished delivery, won applause from the audience and a second look from Sandra Johnson, 54, of Washington, Iowa. "I'd ruled him out," Johnson said, sitting on a bale of hay that served as seating at the Soapbox arena. "But I realize now he's got a lot of experience as a governor of a border state. It gives him more credibility on the issue." The question for Richardson is whether he has enough of it to win support from two sides that rarely find much to agree...