Now it can be told- The Thompson story

foxnews.com ^ | 1/22/2008 | by Carl Cameron

[SAMWolf]

Back in March of 07 at the CPAC convention in DC several former Fred Thompson Congressional staffers told me Fred Thompson was thinking about a run. Some of his Tennessee cronies had been talking him up too.

I reported first that he was eyeing a White House bid. At the time several insiders told me OFF THE RECORD that it was largely a trial ballon to guage his popularity and float his name as a possible vice presidential nominee. I was sworn to silence.

[Leifur]

As he isn´t going to be your next president I sincerely hope he will be your next vice president, and ultimately president himself (will his age become a problem after another 8 year term?). But although I initially believed that he was doing this to become a vice president, I realised little by little, that nobody of those left had as strong convictions and values and I thought that would lead him to win the primaries. And I came to believe those strong attributes of him had the best chances of making the Republican party win the next elections. Strange but true that the actor is the true heavyweight when it comes to policies and principles.

Now I am afraid, but not yeat completely having lost all hope, that the US will go the way of us here in Europe and become a welfare state that will crumble under its own weight and cease to be, over a period of time, a player on the world stage. So many of the candidates of both parties make me think this is true, especially Huckabee, Ron Paul, Obama, Clinton and actually Romney too, because that is a man I couldn´t trust for my grandmother.

But Thompson as vice to Rudy or McCain, well it might be what the US and the rest of the western world needs right now.

[mad_as_he$$]

He won’t be back, it appears he is broke.

[donnab]

That I dont know about...I do know Carl has been an idiot for some time now.

[cmsgop]

It’ll be interesting to see how much of it proves to be true.

You know as a FRed Head and a Carl Fan I will follow in that course of Action, Although I gotta say I can't see FRed angling for 2 all this time......

[TBBT]

I might even consider a Rudy/Thompson ticket... But I’m more hesitant about that idea...

[ImpBill]

If and I repeat IF Fred was on the ticket with .... hmmmmmm ..... guess it would only possibly be ..... (God this is hard to get out ... keeps sticking in my throat)..... mitt rommney and a number of other things come into play; such as Jupitor aligned with Mars, I just might find my way into ..... (here we go again with the stuttering) .... pulling that lever!

Otherwise ... see my new tag line.

[pianomikey]

YES! McCain/Thompson would ruin Thomspon’s credibility, not enhance McCain’s credibility.

[Sir Gawain]

Some of his Tennessee cronies had been talking him up too.

Cronies? Usually used in a negative context. No bias there.

[apt4truth]

At the time several insiders told me OFF THE RECORD that it was largely a trial ballon to guage his popularity and float his name as a possible vice presidential nominee.

The vice president doesn't have much power so what would be the point? It would make me mad if he wasn't really sincere in his run for the Presidency. I don't buy this story.

[donnab]

Hands you a lozenger. hehe

[Moonman62]

Sounds like the perfect plan for a lazy guy.

[TBBT]

The VP’s power and influence is dependent on the President...

A VP can be highly influential and effective...

[Just mythoughts]

That I dont know about...I do know Carl has been an idiot for some time now.

Again not disagreeing about the idiot part, but IIRC it was his face and spluttering breathlessly the words that come to my mind.... prior to that report he seem like he was just that a reporter. Since that report I always see him as a liberal mouthpiece.

[coalman]

Sounds like Fred was more popular than anyone imagined,but he had no staff or structure set up to capitalize,sounds about like what it looks like to me.

[ImpBill]

Thanks, it might take a truck load of them to get me to the polling place instead of the golf course. /;-)

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

How reliable is Carl Cameron?

About this much:

[ovrtaxt]

Fred accomplished one thing- the destruction of Hunter’s support.

[enough_idiocy]

"Media watchdog groups claim that on a number of occasions Carl Cameron has fabricated statements by Democratic politicians, and that this was done to boost their Republican opponents. One claim cited by Media Matters for America was a claim that John Kerry labeled George W. Bush a "warmonger" who intended to create "perpetual war" around the world; Media Matters averred that no such instance of that criticism ever occurred. [7] In another instance, Cameron wrote a story posted on the Fox News website which included fabricated quotes from Kerry; the senator purportedly called himself a "metrosexual" and Bush a "cowboy" and spoke effeminately about a manicure. Official Fox News spokesman Paul Schur later said it was intended to be an internal joke not for publication, and the network apologized for the piece, but only on its website, and only through a tag on the article in which these quotes appeared. [8]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Cameron

[donnab]

“Since that report I always see him as a liberal mouthpiece.”

Thats why I call him an idiot...liberal mouthpiece. They are one in the same.

[Dog]

Sheesh....Carl is only the messenger....you should be angry at Fred for running such a disjointed effort.