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Posted on 03/28/2007 4:01:02 PM PDT by America_Right
Sorry, all you Fredheads out there. I think I may have inadvertantly lost a Thompson supporter. My buddy in Vegas and I communicate during the day via email, and I have a "Fred Thompson For President" picture as my signature. He agreed with me that Thompson was a great candidate and had his support up until today. Then he sends me an email that said:
Seeing your signature at the end of your emails is giving me second thoughts. I am very afraid for a country that has to hire an actor to be president, because no politician can be trusted. At the very least Ross Perrot was a business man. But he was laughed at.
So, I replied with this:
My signature? You need to do more research than that. The acting thing is what I liked about him (at first), because I knew he was a conservative, and since he was a well-known face, he had electability. I was instantly excited about the fact that an electable conservative could run for Prez, and WIN EASILY. Elections are almost completely won on image. Very few voters are well informed (like I am), or even somewhat interested (like you are) in politics. Most voters get all their political info from the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (or similar), and thus remain blissfully ignorant. Anyway, after doing LOTS of reading about him, there isn't anything to hate about him. He is a true conservative, through and through. Those are rare enough in Washington, let alone Hollywood. So, not only is he an electable conservative, he is a REAL conservative. His only negative among conservatives is the fact that he is buddies with McPain, and he helped author the McCain-Feingold bill that restricts the heck out of free speech concerning elections. It totally stomped on the 1st Amendment. Since then, however, Fred has completely recanted his support for the bill. He had no idea that it was going to have the effect that it has had. His sole intention when helping author the bill was to cut back on (or possibly stop) the corruption in Washington and their money-man circles. The man is pure class, and you can't make a (negative) decision based on the fact that he has been an actor. It's a job like any other, just a lot easier and better paying. Long before that, he was involved in Washington politics. He was DEEP in the Watergate case as a lawyer, and has spent 8 years in the Senate. He would have won another term EASILY if he had wanted to run again, but he was fed up with the way the Congress worked, and his daughter was dying, so he gave it up and went into acting full time.
As to the acting, well, the greatest president in the history of our country was Ronald Reagan, and he was an actor. Do you really think that those buttheads in Washington that have made their careers by sucking the government teat are presidential material? Remember what Douglas Adams said about people being allowed to be in power? Only those who don't want it should have it. I believe that. Anyway, there is now a wealth of info on Fred on the Web, so you can do some research on your own if you want. You won't be disappointed if you are a conservative. Trust me. A good place to start would be http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=thompson.
Waiting to see what he says, but if I lost a supporter because of my signature, I will get back on FR and beg for flames...
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You have the email from him verbatim. Draw your own conclusions. Sounds right, though... :) I don't get it, either.
LOL
Hopefully, your friend will look at that email and decide he needs to do a little more research. It can only help.
I wouldn't worry about it till Thompson actually becomes a real live candidate.
Perrot? Did your friend really spell it that way?
While I currently support Rudy, I'd have no problem if Thompson won the nom and I'd happily vote for him in the general.
That said, to compare Thompson and Reagan isn't exactly fair.
Reagan was President of SAG
Reagan, since the GE days in the late 50s and really picking up steam with "The Speech" for Goldwater in 1964 was arguably the national spokesman for conservatism for the better part of two decades
Reagan was a two term Governor of the largest state in the Union, population and economy wise.
Reagan had already ran in 1968 and in 1976 when he came within a hair of taking down Ford.
Thompson has no real executive experience of any kind, spent 8 years in the Senate during which time he never really led any key committees or accomplished any signature legislative feats to speak of. I don't recall him being described as any leader in the conservative movement from 1994-2002.
He left the Senate in 2002 and seemed quite happy in his current gig until conservative dissatisfaction is causing him to reconsider.
Thompson has never ran for national office before.
He seems to be a guy that people are latching on to because they're not happy with the current field, more than they are happy with him.
That said, with Thompson considering getting in, it appears that Rudy may have accomplished the goal of sinking the USS McCain. All Freepers should probably recognize that if it wasn;t for Rudy and his numbers the last few months, McCain would be at 40% or higher and would have the inevitablity thing that Hillary has. Rudy took that away from him and if nothing else, Rudy's candidacy finished off McCain and for that he deserves credit.
It's a long way to the election. Fred Thompson has plenty of time to make his case.
He kinda sounds like Kramer from Seinfeld. Offer him soup.
With all due respect to you I don't think your friend is a real deep thinker.
He's an engineer. Great at math, horrible at grammar and spelling. :) Don't let that fool you, he's no dummy.
The mental pain the democraps will suffer with Fred as Presidnet is reason enough to support him wholeheartedly. Besides, he's a Tennessean, an honest man, and a true conservative.
Are you sure you're not confusing that with a "johnson supporter"?
Nope. There are two of them in the "found" section. Nobody wants to claim, so they'll have to be auctioned off as abandoned property.
LOL! Maybe I should have rethought my headline...
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