I'm willing to give him a look along with anyone else except Rudy, who should be running as a Democrat, and McCain who is just too mentally unstable for the office, but I'm going to need to see some fire in the belly and willingness to work hard for the nomination. Because no matter who is the nominee, they are going to have to fight uphill against the Queen and her court.
It amazes me that there seems to be a gratuitous assumption going around (which is the only way I know to describe it) that those Law & Order reruns will have to be pulled once Fred Thompson officially announces his candidacy.
Why?
I believe that in the 1970s there was some flap over a similar situation when Fred Grandy (The Love Boat's "Gopher") ran successfully for Congress. But even then, the claims against Grandy were highly tenuous, I thought (to put it as charitably as possible). Moreover, the idiotic "Fairness Doctrine"--in which these specious claims were grounded--has since gone the way of the stegasaurus.
So under what conceivable principle could others demand that the L&O reruns be pulled--while still being able to keep a straight face?
Rest assured; Fred knows this. He said, in his first speech, that this was not his first time at the rodeo. He's seen the Clintons close up; he knows how they operate.
I watch “Law and Order” re-runs just about every night. He is not on very often.