Fred Thompson on Foreign Opinion...

Meh, Thompson is the Obama of the right, right now. The luster will come off Thompson if he decides to enter the race, just like it is slowly coming off Obama. The right in this country really really needs to get past "finding the next Reagan." It's a quest that will only end in disappointment. Each President is their own man and can't possibly ever live up to the shadow of someone so idealized as Reagan is. That's what I think is going on with Thompson now. It's setting off the right's "he may be Reagan" boner.

Shhhh...you're supposed to let them believe Thompson is actually electable...

You thought Kerry was

It is ridiculous that Bush couldn't be defeated in 2004. But the Democrats found a way around it

Well now come off that. Thompson sure is "electable" whatever that means at this point in the game. Everything right now is speculation. A lot of it bends on Iraq. If we are still there and it still seems like a rudderless ship George Washington himself couldn't get elected on a stay in Iraq platform. If we are out of Iraq by then, well hell who knows.

The story of 2004 was that the American people weren't ready to give up on Iraq yet. If the Presidental election had been held in 2006, I have a hard time believing Bush could have gotten re-elected on the same platform. Politics is as much about being in the right place at the right time as it is about substance.

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Probably not. Which goes back to what I said earlier. The message of 2006 was anti-Bush, not hug-a-Democrat.

In 2008, Bush isn't eligible to be a factor, either decisive, divisive, or derisive.

It works even better when your signature is read as the last step

It was partially both, after all if people were just anti-Bush they would have stayed home. Someone showed up to pull the lever for all those Dems. We've had mid-term elections before were the public was so fed up turnout was really low. 2006 wasn't one of them.

If they were anti-Bush they voted.

If they were meh-Bush they stayed home.

And then you wiping your lips!

Actually, I'd be on the other timeline.

It ends with Fred's election, not the afforementioned consolation prize

You let out a monster roar of a belch first?

18 months and counting...

It's the liberal in me that concerns me about it, but it's the liberal in others that makes it easier

I bow to no savior.
Not Thompson, not Obama.

Why would voting involve a religious allegiance?

You tell me.

You said it :flow2:

OMG! Thompson's racist past revealed!

You did it.

He also played Roseanne's evil boss in the episode where all her friends quit their jobs because he was mean

You mean the celebrities that engage in the political process, instead of just glibly commenting on the sidelines, then crying foul at anyone's disagreement?

Wait, that last part seems familiar...

OMFG...you totally went there

Hey, Rosanne kicked his ass, she should be president!

Wow, Roseanne, you're so aaaaawsooome.

She spent the next half a dozen episodes regretting it

Dammit, I'm so confused now!!
Cite the show and episode that tells me how to feel!!

The ones where she did phone sales.

She was selling either phone sex or AmWay ...I forget which

Actually, I think this election is more analogous to the episode of The Banana Splits where Fleegle got the clap from a Jack O Lantern.

Turnout disagrees. The meh-Bushes still voted, not in as great of numbers, but they still did. Besides, the myriad of exit polls that were taken showed people were voting for a generic Democrat as much as they were voting against the President/Republicans. Results like there were with the levels of turnout that there was just don't happen when the meh's stay home.