The story has already been written. Imo.
Of course, he came to acting long after he'd already had a career in law, but the MSM have some truly bizarre, elitist ideas about work. I've never been able to figure out how DeLay being a former exterminator was the subject of jokes. The MSM are a bunch of preppy wimps who like their workers downtrodden and far away from them. They don't LIKE the people they supposedly champion, and find the idea of non-journalistic or non-political work distasteful and suspicious.
I am reminded of John F. Kennedy, who supposedly won the debates in 1960. Those who watched on television swore Kennedy won, and those who listened to the radio thought Nixon had won. The media swooned over Kennedy and the rest is history.
Among other things, Kennedy moved us into Vietnam and Johnson moved in over 550,000 troops. The media remembers the debate, and forgets about what their spin bought us.
Whether Thompson does better in the debates or not, it is most important what his core beliefs are. And I’d say that of all the candidates. The debates are okay, but in the current format, they are essentially meaningless.
The left does their best to corner the Republican candidates on issues important to the left. Frankly I’d rather see the cancidates give a chance to make opening comments, then tear into each other at will.
It would be a lot more revealing.
How about if Thompson turns the tables and asks Mr. Softball about the unchallenged lies made on his show when Mugs Murtha condemned the Marines of Kilo Company?
I want to elect the best conservative to be POTUS.
Not the best debater.
Go Fred go!
Susan Marie Saulny, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Saulny of New Orleans, was married there yesterday to Dr. James Burton Snyder Jr., a son of Mr. and Mrs. Snyder of Lindenhurst, N.Y. The Rev. Perry F. Henry performed the ceremony at Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church.
The bride, 27, will continue to use her name professionally. She is a reporter for The New York Times. She graduated from Yale. Her mother, Linda Saulny, is the school social worker at Marion Abramson High School in New Orleans. Her father, a pharmacist, retired as the manager of a Walgreens drugstore there.
The bridegroom, 36, is a psychiatrist and the founder and director of Long Island Psychiatric, an outpatient center in Roslyn, N.Y. He is also a clinical assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine. He received bachelor’s and medical degrees from the State University at Stony Brook, N.Y. His father retired as a member of the crime-scene search unit of the Nassau County Police Department in Mineola, N.Y.
The couple met on Sept. 11, 2001, at ground zero, where Ms. Saulny was reporting for The Times and Dr. Snyder was giving medical aid.
Sounds like Fred Thompson scares the Hillary camp spitless. Of course, all of the GOP candidates I’ve seen so far are articulate, and capable of thinking on their feet (if you can call what Ron Paul does “thinking”). Which means that any one of them would destroy her Thighness in a real debate (no softballs, no pony tail guys and no Oprah clones). I like Thompson’s idea of meeting the presumptive Democrat nominee in a “Lincoln-Douglas” open forum debate, without the phony “impartial” moderator/interrogator. If Hillary had to participate in one such debate, with no one to feed her the questions and answers, she’d probably have a melt down, claim the GOP candidate had “verbally violated” her, and refuse to participate in any further debates.
The guy used to be a lawyer. Of course he can debate.
Yep, and Ronald Reagan was a B movie actor who could only star with a chimp.
I want to "measure" how he'd do against Hillary...a challenge not to be misunderestimated.
A blunder could take the legs right out from under his campaign. He'll need to prove he can hold his own in a debate against clinton.
I may sound harsh, but I expect performance and results from anyone I support.
If he doesn't cut it, I may have to reconsider.
We Freepers this last week have a question or two that I would like to see asked.
Against many flames (which is fine, I put my opinions out there) I have said on paper Fred should be my candidate. Unfortunately he has failed to impress me. This is not the MSM talking, it is me, a life long conservative.
I never saw him in Law and Order, and my only real memory of him was at the 2004 convention, when he did the voice over for the montage. He was good!!! His voice melted me!!!!, and I was excited in March when rumblings of him entering the race started. I read his positions, and I was impressed, not only with his ideals, but most importantly the grass root support he seemed to garner. But then reality sunk in. When I would hear him speak, I was bored. With the exception of his Michael Moore response, and somewhat his NRA appearance, nothing has stirred me.
That may be enough for some here, I just don't know if it is enough for me. Right now the only candidate I have been cheering for, and getting that gut feeling for is Rudy. It is frustrating for me, because I don't want to support someone that alienates such a large portion of our base, but then I ask myself how is Fred going to inspire the swing voters if he can't even inspire someone who agrees almost 100% with him.
I will go into tomorrow night with a critical eye, but I better see something, or I can not support him. My countries safety is to important to me to chance putting another Dole vs Clinton election.
These are not MSM talking points, it just happens to be one of the few times in my life I agree with them.
“A look at some of Mr. Thompson’s debates years ago offers a mixed picture, with the candidate mostly projecting calm and confidence against Representative Jim Cooper, his Democratic opponent for the Senate seat in 1994.”....”Even when he was on the attack, or firing back at a rough question, he rarely lost his cool.”
LMAO. Must have missed this disgusting display on the part of Fred Thompson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmKUMuPAMSE
Yep, but the little leftists in the drive-by media become more irrelevant every day. Fred Thompson, more than any other candidate for President, seems to understand this and he is not letting them dictate the terms of his campaign.
This is one of the things that bothers me a little about President Bush, though I still believe his administration has been good for our nation. With President Thompson, it will be nice to have a Republican in the Oval Office that does not dance to the drive-by media’s tune.
Borrowing (with obvious alterations) from a well-known joke told about President Bush:
Fred Thompson and the Pope are on a boat, and the Pope's zucchetto (skullcap) blows off. The Pope laughs and says he can get another one. Fred says, no, I'll get it for you and walks across the top of the waves, picks it up and walks back across the top of the waves, hands the zucchetto back to the Pope and the next day the headlines are, "Fred Thompson can't swim."
When New York-centric SNL does a hit piece on Thompson ...
you know the left is worried about him.
God bless the MSM - It seems they will do anything in their power to get Fred’s name on people’s lips.
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Anyone here recall if he did a debate or two running for the senate in Tennessee?