Novak .... Fred Thompson to run. Please do Fred .... please do.

[Botany]

Fred Thompson who tried his best to stonewall the investigations into
Nixon & Watergate is setting up his campaign for 08 according to America's
# 1 traitor for hire Bob Novak.

I wonder if Fred will bring along his granddaughter err ah .... I mean his wife? :rofl:



THOMPSON'S CAMPAIGN

Fred Thompson's progress toward becoming a Republican presidential candidate will take a step with the
return of Congress from its Easter break when he meets privately with a large group of Republican House members.

GOP House leaders had prepared last year to board George Allen's campaign wagon before his defeat in Virginia for
re-election to the Senate eliminated him from presidential consideration. They had been moving toward support of
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, led by former Speaker Dennis Hastert's endorsement. But many have stepped
back from Romney and are looking hard at Thompson. One member of the GOP leadership who had been prepared to
endorse Romney is holding his fire while he considers Thompson.

A footnote: Thompson will hit the campaign trail next month in advance of any formal announcement with a May 4
speech in Orange County, Calif. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has led GOP presidential hopefuls in lining
up California support.

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272612589.shtml

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well, if Bob Novak likes him, that automatically means he's a pile of shit.

[ingac70]

2. Just what we need. Another hack actor.

:puke:

[Botany]

4. No he has been a lawyer, a senator, and a lobbyist too.

But look @ this .... Fred helped bring about the S & L scandals ..... like
Neil Bush's "Silverado." Which cost the American taxpayers more money
then all the bank robberies in history. (Just Siverado)

By 1982, Thompson worked the U.S. Congress membership as a lobbyist for passage of the Savings and Loan deregulation legislation desired by the Tennessee Savings and Loan League --- in this case, federal deregulation legislation allowing for additional government support of ailing S&Ls; giving U.S. thrifts the freedom to invest in potentially more profitable, but riskier, ventures; and eliminating interest-rate ceilings on new accounts to increase S&Ls' competitiveness. Enacted into law during in September 1982, the Senate bill pushed by Thompson was incorporated into the Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982. The Garn - St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 is widely credited with having laid the groundwork for the U.S. Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s.<5>
The Reagan "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively, it bankrupted many real estate developments made with this tax break as a premise. This with some other "deregulation" policies favored by Thompson's lobbying clients ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history: the Savings and Loan crisis. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around USD$150 billion, about $125 billion of which was consequently and directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which contributed to the large budget deficits of the early 1990s.
An indication of this scandal's size, Martin Mayer wrote, "The theft from the taxpayer by the community that fattened on the growth of the savings and loan (S&L) industry in the 1980's is the worst public scandal in American history. Teapot Dome in the Harding administration and the Credit Mobilier in the times of Ulysses S. Grant have been taken as the ultimate horror stories of capitalist democracy gone to seed. Measuring by money, by the misallocation of national resources...the S&L outrage makes Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier seem minor episodes." <7> Economist John Kenneth Galbraith called the Savings & Loan crisis "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time."<8>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dalton_Thompson

[ingac70]

5. I'm from Tennessee, and Freds biggest achievement is hack actor.....

This man is dangerous scum, nothing more than Dubya with an IQ above 70.

[asjr]

11. I am a Tennessean also and

can't stand the man, but there are enough dummies in this state to vote for him simply because he has been on television.

[Samantha]

24. I am formerly from Knoxville, Tennessee

and I have to agree with you.

[creeksneakers2]

3. The right wing's eHarmony date n/t

[Fridays Child]

6. He looks like a cadaver compared to his young wife (another pic).

But he is 25 years older than her.



(From http://saveliberty.blogspot.com/search/label/Girls)

[ClintonTyree]

9. Let's see....

collagen in the lips, almost certainly a boob job, perhaps a face lift or two...yep, the perfect GOP trophy wife, there's nothing real about her.

Edited to add Botox to the list, the smile looks a little too pinched and pained to be natural.

[DesertRat]

17. I can understand

My smile would be pinched and pained too if I had to sleep with him. :puke:

[bluedeminredstate]

7. Is that REALLY his wife?

Seriously? Which one? Second? Third? Fourth?
I'm sorry, she might be a Rhodes Scholar for all I know, but she looks like one of those Hollywood bimbos the right just hates.
The question that pops into my mind when I see her is: saline or silicone?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. Those puppies are hanging pretty low.

Hard to tell from the pic but since they aren't up to her chin, my guess is real. The men on the right will salivate over her, but the helmet hair women might not be so quick to embrace. They'll stick her in a St. John, toning down the cleavage and skin, and voila! try to pass her off as Lady Di.

I think it's his second marriage; he's about 65 and she 40. I couldn't do it (eeeew), but if they're happy, so be it. (Actually, I could do it - if he looked like Warren Beatty or Sean Connery!) She's supposedly a lawyer and consultant at some muckety-muck DC law firm, at least according to Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson

[DFW]

8. Don't kid yourself

If Thompson enters the race and wins some primaries, the far right
will play up his wife as the most ravishing beauty to grace presidential
politics since Jackie Kennedy. Scarier yet: by their standards, she probably is.

As for Thompson, himself, if he is to be compared to anyone more appealing
than Bela Lugosi, he had better get himself some plastic surgery. I hear that
in Hollywood, there are a few people who know how to do that sort of thing.

[Benhurst]

10. I know this makes me sound like a bigot;

but I don't think the country is ready for a mermaid First Lady.

[valerief]

12. LOL! Good one! nt

[pnwmom]

13. Better a mermaid, he thought, than a country singer with cleavage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson

As a U.S. Senator, Thompson gained considerably more media attention for his active D.C. social night life with much younger girlfriends, and the Tennessee senator had been linked to a variety of women, including pundit-pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, Time magazine writer Margaret Carlson, Nathans restaurant owner Carol Joynt and Washington PR executive Sydney Ferguson. Thompson also had a two year relationship (1994-1996) with county music recording artist Lorrie Morgan of Hendersonville, Tennessee. In her book Forever Yours, Faithfully: My Love Story, Morgan states that:

SNIP

Fred is an extremely generous man. He wined and dined me and bought me presents --- furs, earrings, Chanel shoes with real high heels.

For a while, I enjoyed my first exposure to politics. It was interesting to hear about political conversations, and people even began talking about Fred as a potential president. It was inevitable that I would be sitting at a glamorous party and would have the flickering thought, So, this is what it's like to be a First Lady. Hell, I could handle that. Then I would say, "Oops, better drop the 'hell'"

I put myself to the task of being a great companion to a stimulating and important man, and as a result I become boring. I lost my spunk, my spontaneity, I had to stop and think about the political implications of everything before I uttered a word in public. Was this a Democratic issue? Was this a Republican issue? I could not trust my best asset, my gut instincts. In other words, I could not be myself.

Fred let me know that it was important how I dressed. Sedate was in. Even if I felt like a little flair that night, forget it --- we might be with men who had big wallets and insecure wives, wives who were a little older than I was. So get that basic black dress out of the closet. And no cleavage, baby.

SNIP

[lynne]

15. Stonewall Watergate? From what I remember -

- Thompson was very instrumental in nailing Nixon's coffin shut and I've been worried that would play in his favor. What am I missing here? :shrug:

[Botany]

21. After it was a done deal maybe but I think he was minority consul ...

.... and he used every dodge in the book to slow things down and to
keep open the "reasonable doubt" defense for Nixon.

I just found out about his lobbying days for the S & Ls ... and how he
helped get the regulations changed that allowed the wholesale
theft of depositors money.

[pnwmom]

16. We've got our own cradle robber, and his wife is 31 years younger.

Elizabeth Kucinich.

[TnDem]

18. For the fifteenth time...

I keep saying this and no one is listening except for a very small group on here..

Watch this guy and I mean like a HAWK.

He WILL be the next pug nominee if he wants it. People in solid blue states have no understanding what the wingnuts will get excited over. THIS MAN is has what it takes to come out of left field and snatch the nomination with no dust-up.

As to fundraising, Rudy and Newt's money will dry up like a sponge in the Sahara if Thompson announces. In fact, IF Thompson announces, I will wager that he will raise more money quicker than anyone in history.

I live in Tennessee and I see the aura the man has all throughout the south and west. If Obama or HRC are the nominees, we can say bye-bye to the whitehouse in 2008. Either one of them will lose the entire south and midwest in a landslide to this guy.

Gore is our best bet to win against Fred Thompson.

When it happens, (if Thompson runs and HRC or Obama is our answer), I want everyone to apologize to me when I post this archived thread after election night.

[ruggerson]

19. I agree with you

Up until recently, I thought the Mitt Wit was going to emerge as their nominee, but he seems to be self destructing. Thompson has the persona they love and if he wants it, I think he'll get it.

But, it ain't Gore who can beat him.

It's John Edwards.

And the way Edwards will do it is to frame the race as the future vs. the past. Which, given the physical appearances of Edwards vs. Thompson, is a fairly easy thematic to construct.

[TnDem]

22. Edwards..

Would probably fare pretty well too, but I doubt he could raise the money that Gore can. I also worry about his wife's illness and how a relapse could seriously affect Edward's schedule during a harsh campaign.

Al Gore is at the pinnacle of his success right now. With his recent movie and Academy Award successes, he would be able to tap into the Hollywood fundraising cash better than all of the other potential candidates. Remember that Thompson will raise a little there as well. Gore would be the only one that could compete as well.

[AX10]

20. We'll be able to beat him too.

Though it will be tough, just as it will be to do so against Rudy. We will not win any southern states if he is their nominee. I was hoping that we could make a try for Virginia seeing how it's demographics are changing. Also, Florida. Tennesee will be out too, even if Gore runs against Thomson.

[TnDem]

23. Rudy would be much easier to beat, here's why....

Many of the wingnuts will stay home if Giuliani is the nominee. Once that YouTube clip of him saying that he is "advocates public funding for abortions for poor women" is played for the ten thousandth time, he will be toast in the heartland.

Then there is the issue of his horrendous voting record and statement on guns. I can guarantee you that red-staters and purples would stay home by the droves if Giuliani were to somehow be the nominee. He'll never make it folks, his 9/11 fame notwithstanding.

Thompson would gather huge support from the pugs and the turnout from them would be much higher because they would have a candidate that they actually agreed with.