Posted on 05/15/2007 2:24:17 PM PDT by gcruse
I don’t know what’s the best part of this video response to Michael Moore’s publicity stunt: the cigar, the appropriate disdain, the lecture, the humor, or the quickness of the response, but what I do know is that if Fred Thompson is the first politician anywhere to understand how the speed of the internet can change politics.
This is something that should alarm Fred’s opponents–both Republican and Democrat. In certain military circles there’s this concept known as the “OODA Loop.” OODA stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. The late Colonel John Boyd, a Korean War pilot, came up with the concept to try to explain why American pilots were so much better than their opponents in dogfights. He determined that through a combination of training, aerodynamics, and cockpit design, American pilots and their aircraft could more quickly observe a stimulus and respond. It allowed them to react and act again and again so quickly, that at some point, the American fliers were an entire decision cycle ahead of their opponents. It’s called “getting inside your opponent’s OODA loop.”
Getting back to Thompson, Michael Moore issued his challenge to Fred Thompson just today, and by noon, Fred Thompson answered with a devastating response in a forum that will allow the answer to be viewed over and over.
Imagine Thompson in a campaign against a hidebound Hillary Clinton who, like a typical candidate, runs every decision through polls and layers of staff. Thompson would be “inside her OODA loop” so quickly that serious Republicans won’t know whether to laugh at her or feel sorry for her by the time of next November’s election.
When I said last week that Fred Thompson was a “usual” candidate, I was apparently very wrong.
Watch the whole thing.
Ping.
If he runs, I’d vote for him . . .
LOL... for the 1st time in many years we have a Republican candidate who knows how to work with media...
Whoa..... that.... was..... GOOD!!! I LOVE FRED!!
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I just hope this doesn’t turn into another, Rosie vs. Trump.
A Republican with BALLS ! FINALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s what struck me — I can’t imagine any other candidate, pubbie or dem, responding this quickly and devastatingly. On film/tape, no less — not just a well-crafted, quickly issued statement!
Even most other pubbie candidates seem like they would subject any response to advisors and focus groups and polls, and maybe get a homogenized message out a few days later.
I liked the way he slowly turned his back at the end, as if saying, ‘you’re dismissed,’ returning to matters of actual importance.
Fred gets it about the internet. I love this video.
Yes! Bwahahaha!
I guess all those years he spent dealing with national security have paid off — he did a lot as Chair of Governmental Affairs to document the importance of our information networks, and to mitigate the threat to them posed by terrorists.
The quickness of the response is also a huge clue to FT's committment to run. He must have a heckuva organization in place to be able to produce something like this so fast.
WELL DONE SIR!
prisoner6
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