Fred Thompson on Foreign Opinion...

All under a Thompson administration of course

Self-mortification never felt so good!

Sure.

Then it's assuredly a candidate about whom none of you really know anything substantial, and you're each reading your own hopes into him because the other candidates, in your opinions, suck like a Hoover™.

Like I said...your his best PR by far...every liberal shiver makes me like him more

He's so delightfully unconcerned with his competition

Well, that's WHY he has to take a Brillo shower, but I assumed it was implicit.

At this point, that's what everyone is doing with all the candidates, so get off your high horse.

Hell, that's what we all do unless they're incumbents.

Well, if he has to take a Brillo shower it's because of what the other candidates have been sucking like a Hoover™. Which helps explain the sense of betrayal that helps drive him into Thompson's awaiting generic alternative arms.

So's the last guy in line at a gangbang.

But I like them on their high horse...it's the liberal habitat

Shivers? More like belly-laughs.

It was shivers when people made fun of Cindy Sheehan talking...now it's belly laughs when Fred Thompson is.

And to think some people actually wanted you to go away

I hope you never do

On topic, it's a cute little speech. I wonder who wrote it for him? Judging from the dated quality, it was probably cribbed from one of Reagan's speech-writers.

It will be so much fun to revisit this thread on September 5, 2008.

[action=garamet]bookmarks it for future reference[/action]

And, yes, Bulldog, you're right. I did predict a Kerry win in '04. I was wrong. Unlike your side, I can admit when I misjudge the character and wisdom of the American people. But after four more years of Bush, even some of them have wised up.

This should be interesting...

Do you even hear yourself?

Claiming that disagreeing with you amounts to a lack of character and wisdom. You're quite right though...that is definitely unlike Bulldog's side.

The more vocal liberals are between now and then, the worse off they'll be

Oh, that's right. America is full of crazies.

I forgot how easily the lines can be drawn again over one little speech. Fucking nation...

Promise?

If you build it they will come.

No, that's your specialty. It's not what I said at all.

You're not doing very well today. First you misinterpret laughter as fear, now you can't even understand the words on the screen. Maybe you've got Wordforge Syndrome.

What else could

mean?

Be as vocal as possible

Eh?

Linkarooni

A decent interview/article, despite the excerpt I selected.


Here's a better one:

The man is from Tennessee all right.

Careful...soon she'll be splicing our usernames together

Stupid code.

And this is just the beginning. It's going to be fun the next several months. Maybe somebody should create some kind of "frothing at the mouth" gauge.

The code can only be as intelligent as the user.

RE: my post, you've mashed two separate thoughts together and drawn a conclusion that is neither.

I like that some people think the 2006 election was some sort of change in the political winds rather than just fatigue from the sixth year of a Presidency (and a war that has already endured considerable revisionist history before it's even over) that fully half the population never wanted in the first place, and something that won't even be a factor next time.

I'm not sure why garamet thinks the trailer park crowd would be impressed enough to vote for someone who is from fictional television's liberal mecca of New York City, but if she's right about that, so much the better

"Impressed"? No.

It's called "brand recognition." Rudy will give Fred some competition because he was so visible post-9/11. But how many people will vote for either based on a careful viewing of last night's debates or a thorough knowledge of their positions, and not because they seen 'em on the teevee?

Or do you think it was Ahnuld's platform that got him elected Governator?

Which is the more important part..."Arnold's platform" or "got him elected"?

That's not a fair comparison for Ahnuld. In comparison to those two his candidacy was vastly more substantive. Rudy's entire campaign is "Look at me, I was mayor on 9/11 and didn't shit my pants," and Thompson's entire campaign will be "Look at me, I'm on t.v. and I'm not one of those schmucks!" Ahnuld was a shining beacon of light in comparison. The Governator's platform may have been thin, but at least it was identifiable, unlike Thompson, and not something he actively ran away from, like Giuliani.

Fortunately, the right to vote carries no added requirement of having a good reason, or any reason really, for how one chooses to utilize it. If any American wants to treat it as a popularity contest, or even a beauty contest (like in 1960), they're wholly entitled to