Here are just a few demonstrations of Fred’s “conservative” family values—a “shotgun” wedding at the age of 17, dumping his wife and going to Hollywood where he had a reputation as a serial dater, marrying a woman younger than his own children. I understand the church he claims to have attended doesn’t have a record of his participation.
Couple that with his sterling non-record in the Senate where he left no mark at all and where his record was similar to John McCain’s. No experience as a manager of anything, no particular interest in government, either. He quit his senate job in his second term (after 9-11 no less). He went to Hollywood to make a living as an actor—a job in which you are successful in direct relation to your ability to fake sincerity.
His little essays which are being reported breathlessly on this forum contain no particularly brilliant or unique insights. The latest mismash on the Queen and British-American ties probably took about 10 minutes to write up.
The Democrat operatives I’ve heard interviewed are salivating at the prospect of exposing this guy’s skeletons. They can easily compare him unfavorably to Hillary who is no lazy senator like Thompson was and who is working in an extremely disciplined and determined manner to win the nomination. Watch her in the debates; she has done her homework and is the best prepared and focused candidate on the stage.
Thompson isn’t up to the job. Portraying him as the Second Coming is delusional.
Great entry! I cannot, for the life of me, understand peoples’ infatuation with this man. I am not a Law & Order viewer, or perhaps I, too, would be taken with him. And it does seem like an infatuation, doesn’t it? Hmmmm.