[2ndDivisionVet]

He does make some valid points, albeit snarkily...

[iowamark]

I spoke with Mr. Whitford at a Fred event last week. He’s not a political expert by any means. He had never heard of FreeRepublic.

I did get a laugh out of him quoting Tad “a tad too”Devine.

[Philistone]

I wouldn’t mind a President who spent four days a week exclusively on internal and external security and then took three days off.

Please spare me a “busy” President who spends seven days a week trying to figure out how to take away my liberties.

[EGPWS]

Fred Thompson is going to be the surprise candidate who is going to leave the MSM dead in their tracks!

[SwinneySwitch]

“It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?” ~ Ronald Reagan

[Williams]

"He's like a dad, a good dad - dependable, unflappable, familiar. "

EXACTLY my reaction to President Ronald Reagan, at the one live speech I attended.

[Cicero]

Like other liberal writers, he confuses, or pretends to confuse, laziness with common sense. And the same with Fred’s speaking style. It’s plain, direct, honest, and to my mind exactly what I want to hear, not some two-bit orator pretending to emote at me like Al Gore or Jean Kerri.

Liberals are so far out of it, they don’t even recognize it when someone behaves like a normal person.

[AnAmericanMother]

"Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders."

- Erwin Rommel

[Brilliant]

Dick Wolf (creator of "Law and Order") pays me a lot of money to work two days a week. Why would I work for less money and work six days a week?

That's supposed to show he's lazy? To me, it shows he's smart.

[Goodness]

Thompson is lazy, he doesn't lust for the presidency

Good! His staff should be selling the "he doesn't really want the job, but feels it's his duty, like George Washington did" theme. Voters would love the change.

[radiohead]

I met this guy at one of the Iowa Thompson functions; he musta been on crack 'cause his perception was completely the opposite of mine.

Thompson had an enthusiastic crowd, spent a lot of time one-on-one with the folks (more time than I thought he would, considering his schedule), and was friendly and upbeat talking , shaking hands, giving autographs, and getting his picture taken.

I thought a guy from Fortune would be smarter, now I know you can't believe what press says, no matter what publication they're from.

[HundredDollars]

If this was hit piece, I’d be afraid to read a pro-Fred article from this guy. It kept saying to myself, “Hell yeah!” I finished wanting to donate to Fred, even though I haven’t decided who I’m pulling for in the primary.

A pro-Fred article would probably describe him as a nuanced, effeminate poseur like john f’n kerry.

[rogue yam]

Then comes a folksy anecdote about "driving around Iowa today, looking at that beautiful countryside," and how "it occurred to me basically how simple this business is of running for president.

It takes a folksy man to tell a folksy anecdote. Cheers, everybody!

[Maceman]

My mama always told me that lazy people make the world go ‘round, because they’re the ones who figure out the best ways to get things done.

[mo]

When I listen to Fred..I hear a wisdom that most wet-behind-the-ears j-school narcissists could not recognize or fathom. Certainly he’s not throwing “his” ideas at you..he constantly references the Constitution and the Founding Fathers...small wonder the the reporterettes hardly know what he’s talking about!!

[bethtopaz]

You guys at FR are unbelievable — now you’re trying to convince yourselves that having a lazy, unmotivated, disinterested president is a good thing. Wow! Denial is NOT a river in Egypt!

[b9]

"it occurred to me basically how simple this business is of running for president. How people talk about it's so hard, it's so complex, so many issues and all that. It's really pretty simple. And it has to do with what's good for America." People are nodding now. Two keys in the coming election, he says: One is "to adhere to the principles we have always believed in as a nation;" two is "to nominate somebody who is a commonsense conservative who can win in November, and I submit to you I am that man."

Losing weight is "simple" too ~ just eat less. ";^)

Fred is elegantly, humbly, profoundly simple and deep, instead of complex and shallow.

[John Leland 1789]

Maybe Mr. Thompson would do much less in Washington, like the Congress should do much less. The more they do, the deeper we sink into socialism. All of Washington should go home more often and quit trying to sit up there and figure things out for us, as if they are smarter than us.