Hollywood Fred Thompson To Make It Official
WaPo:
Fred Dalton Thompson will tell his supporters that he is running for president today in a 4 p.m. conference call with 800 to 1,000 elected and party officials from around the country, a source close to the campaign said today.
On the call, Thompson will detail his plans for the future, which are expected to include an appearance on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" on Wednesday night -- even as his rivals debate on Fox -- and could be followed by a formal announcement the next day.
The confirmation of Thompson's plans end a months-long flirtation with the public about whether the former senator and Hollywood actor would seek the Republican nomination for the presidency.
Fred's campaign will be going forward with the third spokesperson in as many months, which is not exactly helping to fight the rumors of a campaign gone amok.
UPDATE: Lane Hudson has been on the forefront of pressuring Thompson to get off the fence. Look how Lane has been described by Thompson supporters.
Trail lawyer
lobbyist
hollywood actor
seems so anti-republican
apeman @ 1:
Hypocrite, liar, opportunist... No, I think that's about par for the course.
How old is he? He looked like crap in the last video posted here. Will he live to the convention? Are both he and Guiliani living with cancer in remission right now?
Old Billy @ 2:
Is that the ghost of Lenny Briscoe I hear?
I love the cartoon on the embedded link. Really captures the magic that is Fred Thompson.
Some are saying he's already toast. Seems his wife likes to really really run the show.
One more try by the republican party to find the ghost of Ronald Reagan.
Wolf is advertising that he is going to play the tape recording of the arrest of Craig real soon.
No need for the Republican Games to even begin.
Based on the fact that Fred Thompson is a lawyer who lobbied for a Pro-Choice group in 1991, (and the fact that McCain has crashed and burned), there’s no need for a Republican Convention. It’s easy to see who their presidential nominee will be in 2008:
Guillian is Pro-Choice
Romney was Pro-Choice … before he became anti-choice
Thompson is anti-choice – unless he’s getting paid a handsome fee to take a stand to be Pro-Choice
Taking a stand for something he doesn’t believe in just to make a few bucks?
People, this clearly makes him the only bona fide Republican in the bunch.
There’s your nominee.
Good, let the idiot split the Romney/Guiliani vote....
THIS JUST IN!!!!
My belly button lint is especially fuzzy today.
Fred Thompson, whoop dee freakin doo....
The only remaining question is whether his campaign nickname will be "Frederick of Hollywood" or "The Gucci Loafer."
jtmonty46 @ 4:
Now Lenny, I would vote for. He always seemed like a good egg on the teevee.
Naraka @ 9:
Congratulations. We should all be so lucky.
Old Billy @ 11:
LENNY!!!!
What a waste of campaign contributions.
With his track record to date, I will bet that he will not make it to the R Convention.
Old Billy @ 2:
make-believe tough guy
serial marryin' guy
etc
etc
Yay! Amother old angry white man is officially running!
How many old white guys does this make for the Republicans now twelve?
It's really amazing to me how eagerly and openly Republicans pursue image over substance. They seem to WANT people to realize that they're just going for whoever nakedly dangles the most juicy red meat in front of their faces.
Christ, Republicans are stupid. It's just too bad they're dragging the rest of the country down with them...
I just listened to the audio of the arrest of Craig. From what I could hear and understand, Craig is either guilty as hell and he did what he was accused of or he is innocent and a total idiot for pleading guilty.
Thompson just adds to the list of the best the repubs have to offer. A sad lot, indeed.
pissed off patricia @ 19:
PoP - from your summary it sounds like the audio wasn't too clear.
The Republican Mafioso leadership thinks that an actor portraying governmental figures
-- is going to surpass integrity and help our Country at this point?
Its going to take more than a bad character actor who is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and the American Enterprise Institute ...
What our Country needs immediately...
a Newsday Columist today summed it up... REMOVE BUSH and CHENEY NOW.
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres0826,0,6942248.column
Fast approaching Sept..
Here we go again...
The American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal,
the Weekly Standard, FOX, Right wing radio, ….all the usual suspects
It looks like THEY are getting ready for another WAR product rollout...
--> To distract from the real crime(s), secrecy and coverup..
( just like Cheney's 2001 secret Energy Task force and ENRON back in 2001... )
But now this Sept 2007 its EVEN worse...
Criminal investigations, fired atty's, High level purgery, Resignations, obstruction of justice, supeanas ignored, No Functional Justice Dept, voter caging evidence, Rove's former Alabama Gov prosecution setup now using Col. Steve Feaga, a Military Intelligence officer as federal prosecutor, Texas officials engaged in sex with teens PROTECTED by Gonzales justice department, spying on citizens, etc. etc.
We dont need character actors.
We NEED Democrats in Congress to cancel the vacation and begin hearings immediately on all of this.... and act NOW to save our country from the looming disaster..
Remembering:
September 7, 2002 - New York Times White House correspondent Elizabeth Bushmiller wrote how the Bush administration plans of the invasion of Iraq
Bonkers @ 15:
Repugnant
Irrelevant
Inconsequential
Obtuse
Ah, it's all downhill from here, Fred. Wrong actor. Wrong year. Wrong party.
I'm tired of Leno giving connies like Fred airtime
Fred Thompson is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he specializes in national security and intelligence [chuckle, chuckle].
Take a look at some of Thompson's buddies at AEI:
- John R. Bolton, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
- Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, AEI senior fellow.
- Ted Frank, a leading tort-reform advocate in the United States
- David Frum, an author and former speechwriter for Bush, is a resident fellow.
- Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow. He is the director of the Project for the New American Century's Middle East Initiative and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA.
- Newt Gingrich, member of the Republican Party and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives between 1995 and 1999, is a senior fellow at AEI focusing on health care (he has founded the Center for Health Transformation), information technology, the military, and politics.
- James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000, is a resident fellow.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a former Dutch politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islamism & Shar'ia Law.
- Frederick Kagan is a military historian and signatory of Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) along with his brother Robert (co-founder of the PNAC) and his father and fellow neo-conservative, Donald Kagan.
- Alan Keyes, former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, was an AEI resident scholar.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick was the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was an AEI senior fellow until she died in 2006.
- Michael Ledeen was previously involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair — an adventure that he documented in his book, Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair.
- Allan Meltzer is one of the foremost academics studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve Bank. He, along with economist Milton Friedman, pioneered monetarism, the now widely accepted theory that inflation is entirely the result of the growth of the money supply. Meltzer is currently working on the second volume of his History of the Federal Reserve.
- Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar. He researches Middle East politics, democracy, neoconservatism and the history of socialism.
- Charles Murray, an influential policy writer and a researcher, is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. He is best known as the co-author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve.
- Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy and Director of Social and Political Studies at the institute. He has written extensively about the role of faith in government.
- Norman Ornstein has been a Congressional analyst and political commentator for more than thirty five years.
- Richard Perle served on the United States Defense Policy Board and is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
- Danielle Pletka, Vice President, her research areas include the Middle East
- Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine.
- Christina Hoff Sommers is a critic of the feminist movement. She is the author of Who Stole Feminism and The War Against Boys.
- Ben Wattenberg, a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson, is a senior fellow.
- Paul Wolfowitz (Visiting Scholar), A "major architect of President Bush's Iraq policy and, within the [George W. Bush] Administration, its most passionate and compelling advocate."[20]
- John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, and a professor at Boalt Hall, is a visiting scholar.
Great cut out the middleman, just put a lobbyist in charge
trial not trail
You would not believe how relieved some republicans are to hear this. On Politico dot com, you see shit like "Thank God!" , "bout time!" .
Its their Reagan-lite in a red pickup ! Lazy fuck! He's worse than Bush.
Jesus Hussein Christ, but the GOP is desparate.
I'll believe it when I see it.
quite a list of "corrupt buddies" there on #25
THOMPSON = BUSH or WORSE
and rumor has it...
Jim VandeHei, co-founder The Politico
--> his wife Autumn Hanna IS a Former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay.
Take care everyone...
Keep exposing all of this...
jr @ 24:
I stopped watching Leno because he's so rightwing it's sickening. He went on and on for yrs with the Clinton jokes after Clinton was out of office. He probably still does. His monologue always focuses on someone who is down on their luck, having a hard time or going through a difficult time. That is always the theme. There's a cruelness in his "comedy" that I don't find amusing. I hear his network is getting rid of him. I hope it's true.
The Smiths Go To Washington @ 31:
What channel will his candidacy be on . . . . Tuesdays on TNT?
This just in... Fred's campaign slogan:
"Hey you rotten kids - get off my lawn!!"
I can see that the Acme Method Acting School has been trying to teach Thompson the look of "Weighty Gravitas" - Expression 53B with Posture 49A. I don't know......it looks like he's still got some work to do on that one, because his inner dickhead is still coming on way too strong.
I'm not impressed. Even Nixon thought he was a tool. I bet his candidacy won't last long.
Thank God.
Now we'll be able to sleep safely at night with this big daddy protecting us.
soothsayer @ 34:
Well, it's a better slogan than Mike Gravel's campaign:
"Hi! I'm the creepy old man who won't get off your lawn!" :lol:
I hope that old twit gets the nod. Looks like bacon, smells like Aqua Velva.
Who cares?? He doesn't have a prayer in HELL of winning.
What I would like to know is who they will pick to be the VP when Thompson is nominated to actually run the show? Is there anybody out there scarier than Darth Chaney?
i still dont see how people think this guy is presidential material and he looks like he's always frowning. if he wins the nominee, I'd laugh my ass off till next tuesday
Who cares????!!!
oOoOh...look at sexy jowls, and those "come hither" bags under his eyes! I can barely contain my loins! -Chris Matthews
Make what official? The fact that he's violated election laws in "putting out feelers" and accepting more than the allowed amount of contributions? I'd say that before his campaign begins, it's "officially busted" already.
veritas @ 45:
The GOP requests that we please refrain from using the phrase "putting out feelers" until the Sen. Larry Craig affair blows over. ;-)
I'm really looking forward to "The Republic Candidates Wives Debate"....
Judith (don't call me Judy!) Guliani, Fred's busty trophy
daughtersecond wife, and Mitt's cranky out them Celestial Heaven Babies, just don't put them in the military wifey....I'd like to be the moderator, and ask them, do they like the Old Classic Porn of the 70s Era, or the New Edgy Modern Porn of today?
pussy_galore @ 44:
LMAO!!
So Broder thinks Dead-Fred is like the guy who keeps the high school girls on a string, teasing them along, until he finally gives them what they want, or something like that. He reminds me more of the leering gym coach that all the girls used to gingerly step around in the school hallways. Ewwww.
About goddam time. And Brody is an ass.
As always, the GOP is in love with an image, not substance.
Bring it on, Fred! If you enter and survive the next few months it may be a modern day miracle.
Grampa Gucci is going to get roasted.
veritas @ 45:
No, no, no, nobody is getting BUSTED, remember, this is a REPUBLICAN candidate.
He used a little red pick up truck as his gag to fool the rubes in Tennessee. What will Gucci Loafer use for a presidential run? I recommend a golf cart.
He was a lousy D.A. on Law and Order.
Wouldn't want to jeopardize those summer rerun checks! I want Diane Wiest back as DA.
I thought he was being investigated for his delaying tactics of his pronouncement? I've been gone for a few weeks, and did I miss something?
I think those are alligator bags under his eyes, and they cry crocodile tears of neocon compassion.
All the Democrats have to do from now till next Nov. is repeat over and over and over that if you vote for a Republican you are voting for four more years of George Bush. Make all the Republican Cinderella's have to either defend Bush's presidency which will be a losing tactic, or make them run away from Bush as he drums up war with Iran, which is also a losing tactic. The Democrats just need to hammer home the fact that there is absolutely no difference between the Republican's running for President and the bumpkin who is currently holding the office.
The greatest way to smear the Republican's is to call them George Bush.
Holy Shit -
The guy's a shoo-in.
He's tall, has a deep voice, is an actor, is intellectually disinterested and his middle name drips testosterone. I can see the reversed 44 cal Navy Colts hanging from his hips
No wonder the tiny-brained folk love him.
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looks like Larry Craig without glasses.
I can't believe this won't be the last straw for McCain - which is good news because then the GOP will still have "Three Stooges" when he drops out - a very entertaining state of affairs for those of us watching the Repiglicans self-immolation from the sidelines.
And we still have the cheerful prospect of Ginrich to look forward to. ~~
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Fred Thompson looks much, much older without the makeup.
I heard about one comedian who bombed his way through a 20 minute set without one laugh.
He then told the audience it was "last night's" opening monologue from from the Tonight Show. They were rolling.
"Hollywood Fred Thompson To Make It Official"
Oh boy, lucky us! Just what we need "a lobbyist as president!"
Add Law and Order to the list of great stuff that I will never like again, like every great Harvey Keitel movie because he sold out in the 9/11 TV movie, Hugh Laurie, whose Fox character "House" doesn't believe in global warming, South Park because they did this totally un-funny send up of Richard Dawkins, hybrids, and rain forests, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Brittnee Spears. (Well, okay, I always thought that bimbo Spears sucked anyway, and Nugent was only halfway decent because everything else in the late seventies was so bad except for the Pistols.)
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