Posted on 05/09/2007 2:31:43 PM PDT by bd476
There's a vacuum in the GOP, we keep hearing, and Republicans aren't quite satisfied with their presidential choices.
Apparently, neither a veteran senator-war hero, nor a Harvard MBA/JD corporate governor, nor even a law-and-order, 9/11 mayor is quite good enough for the Red Staters. There's just something missing.
And what, one wonders, might that be? Exactly what je ne sais quoi would fill the alleged GOP void?
Just Fred.
Thompson that is. The actor who doesn't act, Thompson is tall and big; he talks straight, drives a truck and is wunna-us. A bootstrap American with take-it-or-leave-it charisma, he's got smarts and the kind of steely gaze you'd like to see aimed at al-Qaeda.
His resume otherwise has all the right bullet points: lawyer, chief minority counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, a U.S. senator who ran hearings on campaign finance controversies while chair of the Senate Government Affairs Committee from 1997-2001.
Like Ronald Reagan's, Thompson's acting career has featured strong manly roles -- a CIA director, senator, FBI agent, chief of staff and rear admiral -- as well as head prosecutor on ``Law and Order.'' When Thompson spoke recently to the Orange County (Calif.) Lincoln Club's annual dinner, he approached the podium to the L&O soundtrack.
In his speech, he came across as sincere, honest and straightforward -- all the traits Americans crave in a candidate -- and he talked folksy:
``Even if we won't be going around in the woods trying to find any bears to kill, sometimes the bear visits whether you're looking for him or not,'' he said.
What's not to love about Thompson? Apparently, nothing, which may explain why the former Tennessee senator is polling in the...
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Pfft.
Kathleen Parker wrote this column - you need to have that there on the masthead.
I’m not necessarily putting her down, although in this case her conclusion lacks any emphasis.
See my Tagline...
is that like saying “piffle”? The best man for the job is Hunter, bar none.
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Mitt Romney TOO RIGHT???? I hope they don’t mean he is politically too right...
If the GOP in question is the big-government, Commerce Clause corrupting, CPB-enabling GOP we just voted out of office, then I sure hope Fred won’t fill that vacuum.
You are one of the more creative posters I’ve run in to with all those ‘Fred’ graphics. Good for you. You’re doing great!
Being the best man for the job and being able to win the job might be two different things. If Hunter could fill the void, it would already be filled.
So when is Hunter going to fill that vacuum? When he announces? Oh wait he has already announced...still not filling any vacuums.
I can’t wait to see him at the Fox News debate, I hope he can pick up some steam then.
He’s just now getting attention. In the last couple of weeks, He loudly called on harry Reid to resign (the only one), he shined in the GOP debate, got the Swifty John O’Neill’s endorsement, was praised by talkers Michael Medved and Michael Reagan and Mark Levin, and now he’s got Ann Coulter’s endorsement. Not a bad few weeks.
see below your post.
Thanks. I am having fun, and I never miss a Fred story. :)
Jellybean is doing a great job, too.
Well good for him! I really hope he starts filling in the vacuum. It will get some good debates going.
I agree, but it’s not his time yet. He needs to run for VP with Thompson, and Prez in ‘16.
So glad you are on the ball...seems like there are reams of Romney articles here.
Great job you two!!
Bump!
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