I think you missed the part right before the part you quoted:
Your statement here implies you were quite simply too stupid to understand the point I was making. Considering it was most obvious, you should consider rereading it or finding a way to become less stupid so that you can understand it.
Well, he is an actor, after all.
I think the problem is that a lot of people will end up voting for Arthur Branch.
Actually, I remember these guys. In fact I called them. They did in fact make those claims. Their MO was to get several hundred debtors in a bundle and flood the reporting agencies with challenges.
You know, I believe this is the first time anyone has used that phrase with a straight face since the Eisenhower administration.
He’s an actor. He acted in a commercial. Big fucking deal.
Yep. I worked in advertising briefly. There used to be a law – and I assume that it still is in effect – that celebrities cannot endorse a product that they do not actually use.
I’m a liberal Democrat and you are wrong on this one. Fred Dalton Thompson has my respect except for playing it a little bit more conservative than he really is. He has plenty of smarts. He was still a young man when he was Chief Watergate Council to Senator Howard Baker in 1974. If you can locate footage of the Senate Watergate Hearings, they were quite interesting. He didn’t get that position by being an empty suit.
But that wasn’t all that he did. He went after a corrupt governor in Tennessee. You might like to see the film Marie. In it, Fred Thompson has his first role. He plays himself.
He was a very popular Senator from Tennessee. While he was serving, he gave the response to a State of the Union Address, if I remember correctly. Now, I liked the Address. But his response was so good that it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. After that, people began to talk about his being Presidential timber.
Maybe he would have gone for it then, I don’t know. But his daughter was killed in an accident and he just seemed to lose his drive for politics. He left the Senate when his term was up.
You can talk about his baggy eyes and his conservative stance. But the man has a mind and a sense of humor. And when he walks through a room, he has more presence than anyone I’ve ever seen.
I hope that he does well in the debates. It would be good for the Republicans to find their feet under them again. I just want decent candidates from both sides.
President Bush Signs Identity Theft Legislation; December, 2003
Never underestimate the Dems ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Remember, prior to Kerry getting the nom, it looked like Shrub was going to be a “Jimmy Carter,” but Kerry managed to piss it all away.
Presently, the current Congress is less than popular with the average American.
Keep thinking that the '08 election is a slamdunk for the Dems and you’ll hand the election to the GOP faster than a rigged Diebold voting machine.
Well, he’s no Ronald Reagan. Reagan was not a particularly intelligent man, but he had a coherent and elegant political philosophy that he started promoting when it was least popular. When Thompson wasn’t promoting debt reduction crooks, he was promoting John McCain for president, but now he wants to be the candidate that saves the right form voting for him. I couldn’t really tell if he’s become more conservative or not, because he never seemed to have any fixed position on the political spectrum.
This would probably have gotten him elected in 2000, but now the Republicans have to justify voter support now in a way that the Democrats don’t, since the president had a free hand for four years, and made a mess of it. Now the Democrats have the luxury of simply repudiating Bush, which costs them nothing. Thompson is the kind of candidate who lets voters see what they want to see in him. This is would be fine in other years, but next year they are just as likely to see everything they hate in him.
I was also being facetious about hoping the Republicans nominate their worst candidate. Obviously the Democrats can always find a new way to screw it up.
All this shows is that the Democrats are scared of Thompson. This was a typical ‘hit piece’, nothing more. I actually take it as good news for Thompson. Think about it - they’re doing so much research on the guy that they’ve had to stoop to digging into the backgrounds of every company he ever did commercials for, hoping to find any dirt that they can try to fling on Thompson, hoping some of it sticks. If the best they’ve got so far is that a guy who owns a company was convicted of a crime years earlier, and Thompson happened to be the actor hired to speak the lines given to him and sell them to the company.
If this is the best they can do, they Thompson’s looking pretty clean. If I were the Democrats, I’d be even more worried.
It looks like it’ll be hard to find a ‘Bimbo Eruption’, either. Old Girlfriends Cast Their Vote for Thompson.
To me, it says something about a man’s character when all the women he’s had relationships with still like him and support him.
Unless he says something stupid and has a “Yeeeeaaarrgg!!!” moment, or some other scandal brings him down, Thompon’s is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican nomination. He’s already leading several polls before he has even announced. He’s already got a large nationwide campaign structure. He’s got the Republican base swooning, and his natural charisma and on-camera skills are going to make him look mighty impressive to the independents and the voters who form their opinions from the debates and TV commercials.
However, he’s a bit of a loose cannon. I happen to like that, but it’s dangerous. He speaks extemporaneously a lot. He blogs. Most candidates are filtered through handlers, press flacks, and political advisors. Very little of what they say is unscripted. It makes them sound dishonest and dissembling, but it’s safe. Thompson could make a gaffe anywhere along the way that does his campaign real damage. But if he doesn’t, his greater accessibility and honesty are big assets - especially in a year where there is much cynicism about Washington and both parties are equally despised.
Wasn’t it, like, two weeks ago that Mitt Romney was the “odds on favorite”? How long ago was it that John McCain pretty much had things sewn up?
How do you get that? To me, what it shows is that there’s lots of bad shit on all the major GOP candidates, and it’s easy to find.
So, you’re saying that the L.A. Times is an arm of the Democratic Party? Holy cow.
I expect that the reporter heard the commercials, asked himself “who the hell is LifeLock?” and easily found answers on Lexis-Nexis. Spent two hours writing it into a story, and got to call it a day pretty early in the day.
Geez, Sam, doesn’t it embarrass you to write ad-agency copy about the guy?
You have any evidence that “both parties are equally despised” or are you just making this up?
Not to mention Rudy, who was gonna be the guy who could challenge the Dem candidate in the blue Northeast.
None of these guys are that good, and all of them have baggage. Which is why they keep on rotating in and out of the lead. None of them can win the nomination, so any of them can win the nomination. Except Gingrich. He really can’t win the nomination.
If anyone’s slinging mud at Thompson, it’s the Democrats. It’s someone vying for the “It’s either me or Rudy” position in the primaries.
Not really, ol Marbo! You accuse RTF of doing something you do here on a more-than-daily basis. Trying to obscure your own hypocrisy by bemoaning them horrible attack ads is just stacking more bullshit on top of your pretend ‘high ground’.
You should get a little parrot to put on your shoulder that squawks “IOKIYAAR!” every could minutes. Then you’d at least be honest with everyone.
-Joe
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I got better.
Well, yeah, but you’re a gal, and the soft guys are all atwitter over Fred Thompson, its in all the news, ya know, so I’d have to say that your objectivity is probably a bit off, not having the reasoning advantages offered by testosterone, and all.
You really like to push your luck, eh, bucko? :mad:
No shit. That Stone guy practically wrote Fred a marriage proposal upthread…and he can’t even vote for the man!
What is it with this guy? Does he distill Conservative pheromones? And how the hell is he going to be able to stop gay marriage if he becomes President and all his acolytes want to marry him…or at least have the privilege of giving him some head?
Clinton to the nth degree. Wonder if he smokes cigars? Sam?
Sorry, that was Bush saying it, so by definition, it wasn’t sincere.