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.
I, too, have never seen “Law and Order” so I’m immune, apparently, to whatever charm this guy is supposed to possess. I just don’t get it. The idea that women will vote for him once they get a load of the old geezer with his trophy wife is laughable.
I’ve seen Rick Santorum defeated in Pennsylvania by a nobody and the Republican party in PA back a guy for governor whose only qualifications were that he had a pleasant manner, decent communication skills, great name recognition, and he’d been on television a lot and was comfortable in front of a camera. Ed Rendell hardly broke a sweat to beat Lynn Swann. It wasn’t even close. Many on this forum were convinced to the bitter end that Swann would win. I almost fell off my chair laughing when he was announced as the party-backed candidate.
I knew he was finished when little details about his background started to leak such as the fact that he was so interested in government and politics that he hadn’t bothered to vote in any elections for a couple of decades. He didn’t even vote for Reagan! Democrats are pointing out already that Thompson put little effort into his Senate duties and finally quit. I think it’s a legitimate point.
Republicans are making a big mistake if they use the same tired old formula again in 2008. Selecting a Southerner with no particular qualifications or demonstrated interest in the job to run against a Hillary/Obama ticket is plain suicide. The voters in this country are angry; they’re fed up with Bush and they want a change. Another southerner with a deep-fried accent and a pickup truck ain’t it.