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Thompson: Clinton 'Dodging Hard Issues'
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ABC News' Christine Byun Reports: While Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and her Democratic rivals were hashing it out on the debate stage Tuesday last night, Republican candidate Fred Thompson said he was not watching.
At a media availability in San Francisco, the former Tennessee senator said he "didn't watch her last night, had other priorities." He said he was briefed on last night's debate, and thought it was "another example of dodging hard issues" like Social Security.
Of Clinton's answer on whether she supported New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Thompson said she's being "non-committal" and not saying "what's in your mind and on your heart" for fear of losing votes.
"As far as I'm concerned, I think giving drivers licenses to illegals is a bad idea for a lot of reasons," Thompson added.
Previously, Thompson –- who has gone after Clinton for her healthcare plan – has said that he's "not fixated on Hillary Clinton." At a stop in Bluffton, S.C. last week, he told supporters that he's more focused on defeating "an entire party out there that wants us to become a big welfare state."
"This aint about Hillary Clinton," Thompson said in front of the Sippin Cow Café last Wednesday. "I'm not fixated on Hillary Clinton or anybody else. I'm fixated on us, our party, our candidacy and doing the right thing."
Today, when questioned about fellow Republican candidates questioning his experience to lead the country, Thompson said he receives such criticisms with a "smile on my face."
"With exception to Senator McCain, I'm the only guy in the race who has dealt with matters of national security, [and] who has dealt with matters of national and international nuclear proliferation," Thompson said, citing his senate experience.
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