Mitt Romney TOO RIGHT???? I hope they don’t mean he is politically too right...
The comments about Romney sound like plain old envy to me. It’s like the super successful high school guy who was president of the class, valedictorian, and football hero who announces he’s getting into West Point. Everybody, particularly the geeks and losers, secretly hate the guy’s guts.
Thompson is a grim, hulking, humorless old geezer who’s been making a living lately pretending to be someone he’s not. Hillary’s been working long nights in the Senate serving her constituents. A couple of nights ago on Hannity and Colmes, Thompson’s gray face, sunken cheeks, and the giant bags under his eyes didn’t remind me of Reagan, they reminded me of the way Roosevelt looked at Yalta. Thompson looked every one of his sixty-four years and then some. What’s his excuse? Late nights on the movie set?
If Republicans think bringing this old has-been out of mothballs and putting him up against Hillary is a winning formula, they’re as goofy as the Republicans in my state who were convinced that Lynn Swann could beat Ed Rendell.
The push for Thompson reminds me of another Republican disaster—the Dole-Kemp idea. Anyone who thinks appearance and energy-level and pizazz don’t matter should remember that and the Nixon-Kennedy debate.
Enough already of the good ole Southern boy with the accent and the pickup truck. The voters showed in the last election that they’re thoroughly tired of that routine.