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Fred Thompson on Fox News Sunday (VIDEO)

March 11th, 2007 at 04:23 by MsUnderestimated

As I see it, Fred Thompson, former Senator of Tennessee, is our last, best hope in this race for the Presidency in 2008. After you watch this clip, you’ll feel the same way, too. Well, that is unless you’re a liberal bed-wetter, in which case you’ll tuck tail and run - or at least you should, if this man becomes President of the United States. And God willing, he just might should he decide to run. He’s pro-life, against gun control, againts not just gay rights but also any “special rights,” pro STATES’ rights, and pro pardon of Scooter Libby!

Here’s a portion of the full transcript, which can be found here:

WALLACE: You are on the steering committee of the Scooter Libby Defense Fund.

THOMPSON: That’s right.

WALLACE: And you helped raise millions of dollars for his extraordinary legal expenses. Would President Thompson — you like the sound of that probably. Would President Thompson pardon Libby now or would you wait until all of his legal appeals are exhausted?

THOMPSON: I’d do it now.

WALLACE: Because?

THOMPSON: I’d do it now. This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice.

One man and his wife and 14-year-old and 10-year-old children are bearing the brunt of a political maelstrom here that produced something that never should have come about.

These people knew in the very beginning — the Justice Department, this Justice Department and the special counsel knew in the very beginning that the thing that was creating the controversy, who leaked Valerie Plame’s name, did not constitute a violation of the law.

And then they knew that it — someone did leak the name. And it was Mr. Armitage. It wasn’t Scooter Libby.

But he evidently wasn’t a designated bad guy, so they passed over that and spent the next year drilling in a dry well and finally got some inconsistencies or some failure to remember out of Mr. Libby and made a prosecution out of it and went to trial on a he-said, she-said perjury case and faulty memory, when practically every witness in the trial either had inconsistent statements, told the FBI one thing, told the grand jury something else, inconsistent between the witnesses that were presented at the case, and sometimes both.

And yet at the end of the day, the only person that the jury got an opportunity to pass judgment on was Scooter Libby. It’s not fair. And I would do anything that I could to alleviate that.

And he continues…

WALLACE: We’ve got a couple of minutes left. I’m sure some people are listening to you and saying, “You know what, I like this guy. I would like him to be my presidential candidate.”

You talked about it in terms of the process — you’re going to think about it and decide in your own gut. But there’s got to be more than that. I mean, how do you figure out whether or not there’s interest out there, whether there is support? How are you going to test the waters?

THOMPSON: This day and time, it doesn’t take long to learn what people think. I have never beaten down a lot of doors in my life, but occasionally doors have opened to me, and I had sense enough to see that they were opening, and I would walk through them, and they’ve always turned out well for me.

I’m just going to wait and see what happens, as I say. I’m going to have my own thoughts about what’s necessary to get the job done, be successful in doing it.

I want to see how my colleagues who are on the campaign trail do now, what they say, what they emphasize, what they’re addressing, and how successful they are in doing that, and whether or not they can carry the ball in next November, and mainly whether or not they can reach the American people, inspire the American people to do the tough things that we’re going to need to do.

We’ve got an entitlement program that’s bankrupting us. We’ve got things going on in Thailand, in Indonesia, in places that nobody ever talks about anymore that could impact on us.

We’ve got Chinese government who we’re mutually economically dependent upon right now. But you know, they’re still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan.

Those are all things that are going to have to be dealt with. And the American people, we’ve learned, are going to have to be brought along with the process and with what’s going on — be honest with them and inspire them to do the right thing.

WALLACE: And if you search your soul and if you listen to what they’re all saying and it doesn’t seem to you that they’re catching on, making sense — whatever — then what?

THOMPSON: Well, I’m going to give it serious consideration.

WALLACE: Now, I know you anchor “The Paul Harvey Show” sometimes. Will you come back here and give us the rest of the story?

THOMPSON: That’s kind of like pinch-hitting for Babe Ruth.

WALLACE: Or Lou Gehrig.

THOMPSON: That’s kind of like being compared to Ronald Reagan. You know, I’m getting into some no-win situations here.

WALLACE: Will you come back and tell us the rest of the story?

THOMPSON: Absolutely.