I know, some of you probably forgot he was even running – that’s okay, sometimes he did, as well. His campaigning was best summed up by David, at the Right’s Field:
So ends the laziest candidacy in American history. They’re showing b-roll of Fred “campaigning” on MSNBC and they literally can’t find anything more interesting than him eating a bowl of soup.
It’s not like he’s really interested in winning. Heck, he’s not even interested in the economy.The real conservative choice, indeed. He really seems to be conserving his thought processes more than anything else.
I’m really having a laugh watching Grandpa Fred Thompson’s pathetic excuse of a campaign. Apparently there is much truth to this “southern-fried Reagan” meme that’s floating out there – he is indeed a second-rate actor who really is a doddering, old, clueless dolt, just like Reagan. The latest: according to Grandpa Fred, the Soviet Union still exists, comrade! From The Right’s Field:
Radio Iowa’s Kay Henderson interviewed former Sen. Fred Thompson today, and she posted a partial transcript to her blog.
She asked him about Iran, and his answer included the statement, “I’m afraid that the Soviet Union & China are not ever going to do anything that’s going to hurt them that badly but we need to ratchet those up if at all possible.”
In several public speeches,Reagan cited an act of heroism in which a U.S. Navy pilot won the Congressional Medal of Honor. The incident he referred to was part of a movie, but Reagan remembered it as real life. Grandpa Fred also remembers things that never happened! Also from the Right’s Field, this one’s from an interview about helping Chief Justice John Roberts get through his confirmation hearings::
The president called me up and asked me to help shepherd judge John Roberts’ nomination through the Senate confirmation process. I was honored that I got that call. I was honored that he thought I had enough friends on the Democratic side that they wouldn’t run me out of town!
We fought hard against each other, but I always thought that we had mutual respect. And that’s what it takes. Even though the other party controlled the Judiciary committee, we got some votes there. For a good, sound, what I would call conservative justice. [emphasis added]
Problem is, the GOP was in control of the Judiciary Committee at the time.. it was two years ago. Last I checked, the Dems have only been in control since January of this year.
I suspect that this guy is going to provide us with lot of laughs before it’s all over. And it’s all the more funny considering how many cons love this guy. Idiots, I tells ya’. Idiots.
Earlier in the year, as the Presidential election started moving, I commented how, amidst the panderfest known as the GOP roster, it really seemed that Giuliani was pretty much kissing off the religious right, and how that would be a good thing, because if he gets the nomination, they really have no other viable alternatives. Seems like it’s going that way, as Salon, the LA Times and the NYT have all simultaneously picked up on this. The Godnuttiest candidates are stuck in the second teir (Brownback, Huckabee), or if Keyes is really in, the 10th tier. Grandpa Fred Thompson apparently can’t talk his way out of a paper bag, according to radical cleric James Dobson (from the LAT):
James C. Dobson, one of the country’s most influential evangelicals, told allies in a recent e-mail that Thompson could not “speak his way out of a paper bag.”“He has no passion, no zeal, and no apparent ‘want to,’ ” the founder and chairman of Focus on the Family wrote. “And yet he is apparently the Great Hope that burns in the breasts of many conservative Christians? Well, not for me, my brothers. Not for me!”
Perhaps the initial hype came from the fact that they just like the ‘burnin’ breasts’ of his porn-star lookin’ wife. Who knows. At any rate, they’ve all got their chastity belts in a wad at the prospect of a Giuliani nomination.
