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(Sen. Sloth, Lazily Drops His Droopy Hat Into The Ring)
No one really gave a damn about Fred Thompson until recently, when Americans got a firsthand look at the sorry crop of Republicans running for president. The parade of hypocrites, losers, liars and flip-floppers alarmed GOP polsters. So, they searched high and low, even scraping the bottom of the barrel, to come up with a viable candidate.
Out of the woodwork stumbled the habitually lazy Fred Thompson, who the Republicans dusted off and are desperately trying to cast as Ronald Reagan. Even for an actor like Thompson, that is one role that is quite a stretch. I mean, sure, he is a TV personality, but he basically was undistinguished in Washington and made no footprint in the Senate.
Even Thompson's fame is so-so. It isn't like Tom Hanks or Julia Roberts entered the race - actors with universal name recognition. Sen. Sloth has an okay following, but his entry into the race is overstated and overrated. I'd call him a flash in the pan, but his attention span is so short, he'll probably flame out before he flashes.
The one to watch out for is Newt Gingrich. He's a master politician and can best articulate the conservative message. Plus, he's mean enough to play hardball in a tough race. His weakness is his divorces and dumping his first wife while she had cancer in the hospital.
Fortunately for Newt, the family values of the other sleazy Republican candidates are so pathetic, that he has competition for "biggest wrecking ball to the traditional family." In a way, the morally challenged competition inoculates him from well-deserved criticism.
Newt might end up as trouble. But, don't trouble yourself worrying about the sluggish and over-hyped Thompson. He's good on the little screen, but no threat on the Big Stage of presidential politics.
14 Comments:
Jsut wait until Fred has to start answering questions about the illigitimate child he fathered with a married woman.
Now I know where to go to keep up on my American politics. I came to your site in a rather convoluted way as a referral came to my site via an old link, a list upon which I found you, we are both alumni of the Sexy Blogger of the Day site.
How could I resist someone who calls themself an activist, a description I use for myself.
I can't imagine you have trouble getting a date my friend.
I am afraid of Thompson for one simple reason: If the idiot who calls himself our current president could get elected, anything is possible. So I now fear the elevation of this b-grade actor to the White House. It wouldn't be the first time that the Republicans traded reality for a good pretender.
posted by Anonymous, at
6/01/2007 10:54 AM
Of the lot Ron Paul is the only one who has any class or intelligence and of course he's the one that was booed at the GOP debates for telling the truth about the iraq war.
posted by Anonymous, at
6/01/2007 2:48 PM
I can't wait for the theocrats to get a load of Thompson's trophy wife with the biggest breasts his money could buy. She should be a big hit at the Republican ladies' teas.
posted by Unknown, at
6/01/2007 2:50 PM
I think Newtie is one of the scariest candidates, especially since he has made the pilgrimage out to Colorado Springs (the "Vatican" of the Evangelical movement according to a recent Focus guest) to kiss the ring of the Po - er, the Dobson. The Dobson blessed the Newt, even though Newt has abysmal family values (personally). Dobson is again blinded by ego and cannot see how Newt is using him yet again.
All the other moral offenders need to do is suck up to the Dobson, and he will extend his blessing to them, also. (Well, no maybe not all of them - Thompson is "not a Christian" to Dobson and Romney is a Mormon, and Giuliani, well he is a liberal pro-abort cross-dresser in Dobby's book) -SharonB
posted by Anonymous, at
6/01/2007 2:50 PM
The Dems should start playing the bipartisan card by raking up the dirt on these slime bags, especially Gingrich and Giuliani. They used Gay marriage as a wedge issue in 2003, so we should start paying them back, big time. But...the three Democratic contenders have not guts to do it. As it is, they're not standing up to the right wing religious bigots and neither are the Gay-friendly denominations either.
