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Fred Thompson: Stick to 'Conservative Principles'
Former Sen. Fred Thompson criticized Democrats and reminded his fellow Republicans of their roots during a fundraising dinner Thursday but would not discuss his own ambitions for the White House. "I'm not here to make a pitch tonight. I'm here to support what you're doing," said Thompson, who is considering a run for the Republican nomination. Thompson centered his message around traditional Republican policies of a strong national defense and a limited government. He accused Democrats of trying to expand government and their constituencies and undoing President Bush's tax cuts. "We must push back and push back hard," he said. "Remember how we won in the 1980. We stuck to our conservative principles."
Story Continues Below On setting withdrawal deadlines for U.S. troops in Iraq he said: "Our choice is not whether or not we will fight. Our choice is where we will fight. ... And the only debate going on with regard to this most important issue facing our country on the Democratic side of the aisle is the date of our surrender." Thompson was the keynote speaker at the annual Prescott Bush Awards Dinner, named for President Bush's grandfather, a U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963.
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