Only if you consider biased propaganda to be "info".
Back in the Mid-90s, my job required me to meet a VIP at Reagan National coming in from Nashville on Monday mornings. One of the joys of that job was to regularly encounter Senator Fred Thompson, carrying his big briefcase, as he strolled quickly and confidently toward his ride. No Entourage, No Yes Men. Just the Senator on his way to work after a weekend in Tennessee.
This guy has the look and demeanor of someone who gets the job done. One look at that natural scowl on his face and one knows, 'Don't get in my way boy! You'll get run over'
“You know, they said that you had to raise $100 million this year to compete,” Thompson says as his aides try to get him to turn rightward toward the cameras. “Without raising a dime, I was in the pack. So I’ve already saved $50 million this year.”Good one.
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Despite his eight years in the Senate, people seem to buy the idea, for the time being anyway, that he’s a Washington outsider.Fred never says this. I never say this. Nobody here in FR says this, unless it's a Paulite claiming that somebody else said it. So the only people who say it are the people who bring it up in order to shoot it down.
This argument, that Fred is not an outsider, is the quintessential Straw Man argument of all time.
Reagan ... with eight years as the chief executive of what amounts to one of the world’s largest countries.That's a good point. And a tough one for Fred. It's not a deal-breaker, by any means, but it does make it hard to say: Fred is the new Reagan.
And, again I ask, what is the big deal with going back to someone's high school days?
Speaking as a Californian, this is not a good thing.
I heard former Sen. Fred Thompson speak for the first time last Friday, July 27 at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Marriott in downtown Philadelphia. Former Gov. Mike Huckabee also spoke. Huckabee made a good impression and seemed to speak from the heart. After lunch, Thompson spoke and read his speech as if it were the first time he had seen it. ALEC is a good group of conservative state legislators.
Thompson read a speech about conservatives, the framers of the constitution, and federalism that was right for this audience of conservative state lawmakers. My only objection to the speech was that it seemed that Thompson was phoning it in. He sounds like a good conservative but he also sounds as if he thinks charm alone will win him the nomination. In fact, he sounded just a little on the lazy side.
I am asking Freepers from Tennessee who know him, does Thompson have the energy to run campaign for president and to govern? Is he lazy or did I catch him on a bad day? I would even say that Thompson was mildly disrespectful of his audience.
Out of the 1,400 people in that room were undoubtedly about 200-300 who would likely be delegates to the Republican National Convention in 2008. If Thompson could not muster the energy to give a good talk to a conservative audience like that, most of whom wish him well, then when would he summon the energy? Folksy is fine for the stump when you are running statewide for governor or senator but people expect more of a candidate for president if that is what he is.
The author Rodrick loads his article with typical northeastern liberal cheap shots against GOP southerners.
He could have saved lots of column inches by just stating that in his opinion, Thompson is a slick hick.
Was that the daughter who died?
Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds a nut, and Thompson has always seemed to have a way of stumbling into success.I wonder who's worked harder in his life. Fred, or the leftist sycophant (toadying up to his leftist bosses) who penned this slur.
Here at Riley’s, it housed a dozen glimmering Saturday night specials. Thompson lovingly nudged his spouse and tilted his noggin toward a coal-black .38 Smith & Wesson and cooed, “Honey, would you like one of those?”Q: Since when is a .38 Smith & Wesson a "Saturday night special"?
A: Since the author is an idiot.
“A lot of smart people have looked at the history books and said, ‘Well, it’s been a pretty good run. Lots of civilizations have lasted a little longer, but they all declined and got fat and happy and sassy and weak. And they all just faded into the sunset.’” Thompson was working the room without a microphone and spoke quietly and even slower than usual. “That is not going to happen on our watch.”
When Thompson talks about issues, his speeches tend to lose focus and drift.Ok. That's it for me. I might finish this later but with this sentence I think the writer is really losing focus and I feel like drifting away.
The more stuff like this I read, the more I realize just how much nothin’ they got.
Rn, Fred, Run!
Ask him why he let Clinton skate on the sale of missile technology to the Red Chinese, our biggest enemy at the time. It was Clinton's most impeachable offense, IMO, and blatant treason on Clinton's part, selling his countries secrets for money. See if Fred can charm his way out of letting that skunk skate on treason.
NO WAY I'll EVER vote for this guy, and I urge everyone to google this issue and see if you don't feel the same way.
And no, before anyone spams my Freeper mail, I don't have an alternative candidate who I'm in favor of. As I've said before, we have to do better than this crop if we don't want Hillary in the saddle.