Posted on 06/02/2007 8:57:12 AM PDT by Zakeet
Fred Thompson, a Hollywood actor turned White House contender, had a reputation while a U.S. senator of being frustrated with the slow-moving legislative process and preferring dining with friends to late-night congressional sessions.
But the 64-year-old Republican, who retired from the Senate in 2003 after serving eight years, was also seen as a charismatic speaker who exuded confidence, battled government waste and abuse and backed campaign finance reform.
"The consensus seemed to be that he didn't like to work real hard, but was good to have on your team," said a Senate Republican aide. "People said the same thing about (former President) Ronald Reagan," another one-time Hollywood star.
But Paul Light of New York University's Center for the Study of Congress, said: "The risk he faces is that people want him so much to be like Ronald Reagan that he can't possibly live up to the test. He needs to develop a persona that's distinctly his."
Yet Light said the 6-foot-6 conservative may fill a Republican void. "There's a search for someone who has the right credentials and presence to take on someone like (Democratic White House hopefuls) Hillary (Rodham) Clinton and Barack Obama."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
(((shudder))) - well someone's gotta do it.
Most of those idiots on the hill aren’t trying to solve problems, they’re trying to get noticed. They should leave more of the problems to us. Hillary wants to micromanage our entire lives. Wish they’d stick to what the constitution said the federal government is supposed to do, protect us from foreign invaders.
Criticism of FDT on immigration equates his stands on LEGAL
immigration (improving the process) with ILLEGAL immigration in which he has stood firm on border security.
If anything could be said to relieve the border security strain it would be the improvement and streamlining of the bureaucracy of LEGAL immigration
“An unnamed veteran lobbyist said Fred was viewed as a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, ‘I’m done.’ Can you name one major piece of legislation he authored? I can’t.”
This sounds like a positive to me!
The same Clinton operative has done hit pieces on Rudy and
Romney. Clinton media services INC never rests.
How many of us , if we had to sit through the BS meetings that he had to sit through wouldn't have wanted to say/do the same thing?
Gotta respect him for that .... he wasn't Morty Seinfeld walking out of a meeting because it was too late.
We Thompson supporters better get braced...the clinton/media crime machine hasn’t even warmed up yet.
The fire in our bellies is gonna have to match the fire manifested by supporters of other primary candidates here on the forum, also. Some are very organized against any opposition to their boys.
I can. Here are a few: the Federalism Accountability Act, and the Regulatory Right to Know Act, the Federal Financial Information Assistance Management Improvement Act, the Truth in Regulating Act, and revision of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.
Of course, these were all legislation that reined in the federal government. That unnamed veteran lobbyist may have meant that he couldn't think of any Thompson legislation that imposed new laws, spending and bureaucracy on the American people.
No wonder our system is so screwed up, when only legislation that increases the size of government count as "major" or "important."
“An unnamed veteran lobbyist said Fred was viewed as a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, ‘I’m done.’...”
Maybe so he didn’t have to listen to son of a gun lobbyists who are too wussy to give their names in interviews.
I still haven’t received my copy and I preordered it!
It was supposed to ship May 25 according to the website, I ordered a copy today.
Let me know when you get it, and whether it is any good.
I sure will! If it does not come today,I will email Steve’s producer.He is signing books at The Statesmans’ Dinner in Nashville at 5:30 at the Convention Center.
I ordered bumper stickers, some buttons, and a mouse pad today too. Plus a couple of extra books for friends.
You should see people’s reaction when I drive through crowded shopping malls with my car plastered with our Flush Hillary.com bumper stickers!! People wave, honk and thumbs up, I love it!!
They are afraid of Fred, alright. And, well, they should be.
In this country, you’re not going to have the ordinary, red-blooded citizen vote for a woman. Not, as many as they would like you to believe, anyway.
(Elizabeth Dole, I would vote for)
Thanks for the advice, hon, but Fred already has that persona thang goin' --- didn't have to hire experts to advise him on who, or how, to be ---is himself, and not likely to change for political expediency, and THAT is one reason why I like him so much.
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