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God-o-Meter suspects that the mood is a tad glum over in the Thompson camp this week. In the recent flurry of Christian right endorsements of top-tier GOP candidates, the former Tennessee senator has conspicuously come up empty handed. For a candidate who pitches himself as the only “consistent conservative”—and who some tout as a “southern-fried…

Following up on our earlier post on Fred Thompson’s hiring of evangelical operative Shannon Royce to bolster his standing with the Christian right, the former Tennessee senator is about to take another important step to reassure social conservatives of his anti-abortion stance. Tomorrow he begins airing a new television ad in Iowa – where he…

Two days after poking social conservatives in the eye over abortion, Fred Thompson is signaling that he is not about to yield the Christian right to his GOP opponents. The former Tennessee senator has recruited Shannon Royce, a high visibility evangelical and seasoned Washington operative, as his Grass Roots and Special Projects director. Royce is…

For all practical purposes, Fred Thompson’s tenuous courtship of religious conservatives is over. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, the former Tennessee senator made it clear once and for all that he does NOT support a constitutional amendment banning abortion — a signature issue for the Religious Right — and will not run on a…
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