[counterpunch]

I just wonder if he's got the staying power over the long term, first for the nomination and then for the arduously difficult presidential years to follow.

Fred Thompson has had the career of three men, and he's been far more active and successful in each than most full-time actors, politicians, and lawyers combined.
So all this talk about Fred being too lazy or not having “the fire in the belly” for it seems pretty ridiculous.
True, he's not a divisive, ranting demagogue like so many oft-cited politicians out there are, but I think most Americans see that as a plus.

 

[RobbyS]

I have read he got out of politics in 2002 because a family tragedy had depressed him. It can do that to a man. Calvin Coolidge was nver the same after the death of his son. Collidge, bTW, was far more substantive that the conventional wison has it. He owuld never have reacted to the depression the way that Hoover did, with frenetic action at a time when no one knew what to do.

[onedoug]

I honestly hope your right. I want the best guy up front to take on islamodemocommunism.

Mitt does strike me at first glance as being the consumate politician: the hair, the oil, the ease with which he seems to slide from one side to another.

But the more I see and here him, the more real he seems. I like that he's been married to one woman longer than my wife and I have; that his family life seems genuine; that what you see is really what you get and more, witness a recent radio program in which some slippery d-jock tried haranguing him about his religion, but that he steered consistently toward a multi-faith outlook, then when deliberately kept open-miked but unawares during the breaks his real religious pluralism yet loyalty to his faith showed in droves. (It was a played by Hugh Hewitt.)

Yeah, I think I really like this guy. I'm with Mitt unless and until I can be swayed.

And I think he can clean Hillary's communist clock.