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"Stubby Little Legs"? (Fred versus Hillary)
CBS News ^ | August 16, 2007 | Kevin Drum

Posted on 08/16/2007 10:21:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

"STUBBY LITTLE LEGS"?....Garance Franke-Ruta, reporting from deep in the wilds of heartland Republicanism, is trying to figure out why so many GOPers are going gaga over Fred Thompson. So she asked a "leading figure in the Iowa Republican Party," who told her it's because Fred is a celebrity, Fred is a real conservative, and Fred weighs more than Hillary Clinton. Seriously:

"Can you imagine what debates are going to be like with great big Andrew Jackson-looking Fred and Hillary on her stubby little legs, stamping her feet?" Thompson, if elected, would be the tallest president ever. Republicans are not just looking for the usual John Wayne-type signifiers as they go about selecting a candidate, but thinking about who can best loom over Hillary Clinton and make her look like a shrill, small, silly little woman. Thompson's booming voice will make her "sound like Madame Defarge."

If there's any reason to support Hillary Clinton in the primaries, this is it. Contrary to this guy's delusions, Clinton would eviscerate Fred Thompson in a debate, and maybe, just maybe, this would drive the GOP's core jockocracy into such shrill unholy madness that the entire party would self-destruct in a stupendous display of mass hysteria. It's worth a try, anyway.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: New York; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: 2008; cankles; cbias; debates; democrats; election2008; electionpresident; elections; fredthompson; gop; hillaryclinton; mediabias; piaps; republicans; whitehouse
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No liberal bias at CBS news, is there? LOL Fred would wipe the floor with Hillary in a debate, and this tool knows it...
1 posted on 08/16/2007 10:21:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another liberal projecting, lol, “unholy madness”, sounds like the Dims to me!
2 posted on 08/16/2007 10:24:06 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who is this guy?


3 posted on 08/16/2007 10:24:52 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I SMELL FEAR....

Many Democrats know that the only thing standing between Hillary and Coronation is a Republican Candidate that can actually deliver a Conservative Message to the Sheeple...


4 posted on 08/16/2007 10:25:02 PM PDT by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: RobbyS; 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know, but he sounds like CBS’s answer to the SF Chronicle’s Morford, a perpetually hissy individual!

I also want to know, what the heck is a ‘jockocracy’?


5 posted on 08/16/2007 10:27:06 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (FRED!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Uh-huh, and Carter was supposed to eviscerate Reagan in the debates.

I guess the import of the fact that the elegant 38 second demolition of Michael Moore was entirely FDT’s own idea, script, and execution, with the idea arriving in real-time upon the portly propagandist’s challenge to debate having been received, has not sunk in with the left.

Good, let them only realize it too late.


6 posted on 08/16/2007 10:28:14 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Theresawithanh

Is he gay? The word sounds like something in the gay lexicon.


7 posted on 08/16/2007 10:29:18 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS

Would be a total cankle melt down.


8 posted on 08/16/2007 10:37:01 PM PDT by spokeshave (Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live

They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Round here

Short people are just the same
As you and I
(A fool such as I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It’s a wonderful world)

Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
Short people got nobody
To love

They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick ‘em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They’re gonna get you every time
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
‘Round here

—Randy Newman


9 posted on 08/16/2007 10:47:40 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Theresawithanh
IMHO this is how most reporters and dem functionaries (excuse the redundancy) see us, but this guy is either more honest or foolish than they are.
10 posted on 08/16/2007 11:11:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You know, I have to say, I have no problem with the original leftist, Koz nutroot blog from CBS.

Not that I agree with any of it, of course, but I see nothing wrong with CeeBS admitting where it is coming from by hosting far left, half rabid blogs like that one!

In fact, it shows that CeeBS is thinking of the future and giving net denizens what they want. Good marketing.

If they were to do one from the right, of course, that would be even better.

But, hey. CeeBS is admitting they support nutroot leftism. this is a good thing for their honesty at least.


11 posted on 08/16/2007 11:32:14 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m thinkin’ this guy has a picture of Judy Garland on his desk and secret pair of ruby slippers in his closet...just sayin’...


12 posted on 08/16/2007 11:47:19 PM PDT by Uriah_lost ("build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must." -Fred D Thompson)
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To: Uriah_lost

Dubious. Judy Garland was a woman. I’m pretty sure it’s a picture of Liberace.


13 posted on 08/16/2007 11:51:57 PM PDT by SolidWood
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fred weights more than Hillary??? Need proof..


14 posted on 08/16/2007 11:55:13 PM PDT by Fred (Democrat Party - "The Nadir of Nihilism")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

- A cruel revolutionary whose hatred of the aristocracy fuels her tireless crusade, Madame Defarge spends a good deal of the novel knitting a register of everyone who must die for the revolutionary cause. Unlike her husband, she proves unrelentingly blood-thirsty, and her lust for vengeance knows no bounds.Madame Defarge (In-Depth Analysis)

"she proves unrelentingly blood-thirsty, and her lust for vengeance knows no bounds"

Describes Billary perfectly...Sounds like a very honest journalist to me...I hope the new name of Madame Defarge STICKS!!!
15 posted on 08/17/2007 12:05:59 AM PDT by Fred (Democrat Party - "The Nadir of Nihilism")
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To: Fred

The journalist is a jerk. The fitting Madame Defarge comment was quoted from a Republican.


16 posted on 08/17/2007 12:17:32 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: SolidWood
Chill pill dude...

The name is awesome and fits perfectly...
17 posted on 08/17/2007 12:19:26 AM PDT by Fred (Democrat Party - "The Nadir of Nihilism")
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To: The_Reader_David
Uh-huh, and Carter was supposed to eviscerate Reagan in the debates.

Bush couldn't hold a candle to Gore. Kerry was the only intellect in the last race. Hmmm, seems to be a trend here.
18 posted on 08/17/2007 1:14:06 AM PDT by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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Thompson's booming voice will make her "sound like Madame Defarge."

Hillary Clinton makes Fran Descher sound like Sarah Brightman.

Clinton is truly "cringeworthy".

19 posted on 08/17/2007 1:15:41 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Fred

We apparently are talking at cross purposes. Yes the name is very fitting and awesome for Hillary. My point is that the journalist who wrote the article didn’t call her that name but quoted a Republican. The author of the article is obviously supporting Hillary.


20 posted on 08/17/2007 1:23:35 AM PDT by SolidWood
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