Bye, Bye Fred Thompson
By John Amato Monday Jan 21, 2008 2:31pm
It's been glad knowing you. This isn't surprising that he left the race after his speech to nowhere. I can't wait to see Lady MacCheney have to go on teevee and tell us why Fredrick of Hollywood is gone baby gone. A terrible candidate that ran a snooze-athon of a campaign.
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MSNBC's Shuster and the WaPo's Cillizza comments on the demise of Hollywood Fred. It looks like he won't endorse any of the remaining candidates. Erick at Red State is spinning Fred's departure like crazy, (It's not the end of Fred) but he tells us that Fred doesn't like the GOP field that's left standing:
I spoke with one of Fred's advisors a little while ago. We should note that Fred Thompson has not and will not be endorsing any of the other candidates. My understanding is that with no strong clearly conservative person in the race, he saw no point in endorsing
That's got to hurt McCain I would imagine. Here's a new commercial for the Dems. "Even Fred Thompson can't endorse a Republican for President!" Or something like that...
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Fred Thompson was never really running for president, his grubbing wife Jeri was running for first lady! Lol. I can't help it, I'm chuckling my ass off here. The statured Reagan-esque "savior" of the republican party was exactly as he was described, and exactly as we all suspected-lazy assed. He represents the republican party to a "T." All marketing and catch-phrased. In Fred Thompson's case it was the ambition of his sinister wife Jeri, in Bush's case it was his matriarch.
So much for an Ox and a Cart for every home.
Fred who?
Crap! Now who am I going to vote for?
“Even Fred Thompson can’t endorse a Republican for President!” ....that's awesome
Now go back to sleep Fred.
But he still smells good,
I can hear Tweety Matthews crying all the way over here in California. Tweety was in love with the way Fred smelled and now he'll have to move on to Rudy the cross dresser. Let's hope Rudy doesn't turn in his silk stocking and get out of the race. With no qualified Republican candidates maybe Bush will just stay in office for another 4 years, or ask Bloomberg to take over so we can stay the course of the Bush/Cheney policies. The Saudis are loving this as they sit back and buy up shares in the US banks. Remember the person who has the money has the power. Thanks to the corruption of Bush/Cheney for the pass 7 years the Saudis are in position to take over the USA.
As soon as someone told him he had to "run" for president before he could be the president, that's when he lost interest.
Please don't make me watch Mary when she explains this. It won't be pretty, neither will Mary.
The smell of aqua velva is already fading from the room. :(
Maybe just me, but I want as many of them in the race as possible, watering down the results, drawing votes away from each other. Makes them act as stupid and desperate as possible.
Mr. Irrelevant has quit?
Couldn't even find the energy to make an endorsement? Ah well. He just wanted to play the role of a presidential candidate, not be one.
Wonder if Rudy will do the same after Fla? Helluva campaign tactic to run hard in ONE state.
Rodney Carrington:
"...and his name was!! I really don't know what his name was....so we'll just call him Fred........oh now Fred's ridin' Fred, Fred's ridin' Fred, Fred's ridin' Fred, Fred's ridin' Fred.......Fred's ridin' Fred!!!!"
All I can say is "Yay!" What a complete waste of time and money. I never could stand Thompson: making all the headlines while he waited to see whether or not he would consent to comment about his chances of entering the presidential campain, the utter lack of interest in the first few months toward the most powerful office in the US. Not to mention the fact that he's bitching about "family values" when he's got one foot in the grave and his wife looks like a freaking teenager (gay marriage is disgusting, but cradle robbing is okay?).
I'm sorry, but at least the other candidates were sincere and forthcoming about their desire to win the White House; Fred has been acting like he's been pressured into attending a cocktail party when he'd rather be watching the game.
Ha ha ha.
RP is still in the race and is still capable of pulling in cash for the campaign ($2 million yesterday on MLK day.) More time in the debates will be good for him. And with the slow death of Julie Annie, RP will be gaining more traction. Even the NYT has removed Julie Annie from their voter background section.
I think Bloomberg will hop in if he sees someone like Huckabee about to get the nomination. There will be tons of right leaning independents who would welcome him with open arms.
THE TRUE ‘LEGACY’ OF FRED THOMPSON
Sales of Aqua Velva will now recede back to near zero.
pissed off patricia @ 8:
Nah, I think Fred is more of an Old Spice/Ben Gay sort of guy. Thats probably what your smelling. :lol:
Maybe he'll now take the time to work on his diction.
Lovely swipe at Kucinich despite the context clearly implying a republican (Rudy) way to go WaPo guy what's his name.
Joe O. @ 17:
I think what I was smelling was mothballs.
Dems will win. What you can expect regardless though is a slow and orderly decline in purchasing power and standard of living. As our aging and tattered electric-power grid falls apart over the next 4 or 5 years other adjustments may be required.
That was the most incredibly inept effort at becoming President that I have ever witnessed. Well done, Frederick of Hollywood.
So long Droopy. We're so happy.
pissed off patricia @ 20:
Preparation H more likely. Or formaldehyde.
You know this has affected his acting career. He can never again play the role of president. Think of the laughs.
pissed off patricia @ 14:
POP,
I see Bloomberg as a possible VP for Obama, or, if Obama gets elected, as Sec of Treasury.
Fred is going to continue his retirement.
Didn't he remind you of a baritone Joe Boyle?
L.A. Confidential @ 21:
Not really. The only ones who really win are the elites and corporatists - and their middle-management stooges who implement and enforce their policies.
Carroll Quigley outlined it all in Tragedy and Hope... and Eisenhower explained it in his MIC speech. The elites own both the teams in the game.
I thought I heard that he's endorsing Ulysses S. Grant for the republican nomination.
Good riddance! Now we just need to get rid of Mitt, Guliani, Huckabee and McCain.
Grampa quit because it's no country for old men.
He had this dream.....
Something about a rider passing him carrying a fire for the night.
Fred just knew he'd never catch up and feel the warmth. So he's off to play a few rounds and nuzzle the fantastic tits of his trophy wife. (Too sexist?) (Really, I was just thinking of the ending of another fantastic reveal at the end of a show: The Summarizing Proust Competition.)
I'm curious to see where his supporters take their vote.
Wait, he was running? ;-)
i've tried to listen to all of the candidates and on the republican side, thompson was one of the brighter lights. i kind of liked his slow drawl. He seemed to think about his answers and didn't always spurt out the republican party line. just because he was and is a republican does not necessarily make him a bad person.
Well Nixon got one thing right....Fred was a lazy ass.
The guy always looks like a geriatric probiscus monkey to me....
You want to know what really happened here? Sure, Thompson never was enthusiastic about running but his blonde bimbo wife got all hot about the idea of the geezer actually being President and her being First Bimbo. But as happens with bimbos, she quickly grew bored with all the stupid diners, meeting the dirty little people, missing hair appointments, the policy talk, the robotic political operatives, etc. So she started whining to Fred about being bored (and she quit polishing his knob to boot). Fred saw (with some relief) that he didn't have to do all this shit anymore and could go back to simply diverting the bimbo's short attention span with shiny celebrity dinners, movie opening parties, etc. He drops out, the bimbo now gets all excited again and the gnarly knob polishing begins anew (until she becomes bored again and the poor old sack has to find some other goo-gaw to catch the bimbo's attention).
That is how this entire thing came to be and why it is ending.
Did Kuch drop out? Apparently teh Wolf Blitzer says so:
..."This was a debate, and I wanted the candidates to debate the issues, and let them go back and forth — much easier to do now that there are just three candidates left, as opposed to nearly three times as many." ...
Seriously folks he should be sued for that.
An Average Joe @ 26:
Nope, because I don't know who Joe Boyle is. See, down here under this rock where I live, we don't know about such people.
Fred should have hung around a little longer. By the time Rudy and Huck and Mitt tell us all their plans for our future, he might have started to look pretty good to repubs.
Mark your calenders, bush will give his state of the union speech Monday night (according to what I just heard on tv) Guess he'll break out his economic stimulus plan for us at that time. He'll also probably mention our victorious surge in Iraq. Also, I'm betting he'll get in a word about getting us off of foreign oil and not mention anything about the repubs plan to get us on domestic oil. I doubt he'll mention they want to drill the shit our of our coasts and country.
Batocchio @ 32:
More like moseying....
proboscis, probiscus, whatever.... He does though...
no long a proud american @ 33:
I agree.
Bit NOLA @ 30:
HA! Somebody should tell Chuck Norris that the real old guy has quit the race.
And he's off Law & Order. Sam Waterston's character had a dig at Thompson's 'character' something about how he's actually going to do work out of the office, not just sit around in it, like his predecessor had done.
I don't think Arthur Branch was a character. I think he was playing himself, phoning it in.
McCain will be the last old man standing.
Then he'll get his withered ass handed to him by some dem.
Chuck Norris can then stop round-house kicking Huckabee for being such a hick.
Judging by that picture it's already too late
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y3YC9HKSL._AA280_.jpg
Or is that promoting violence?
But he did a great imitation of Huckleberry Hound.
There is serious joy in the Willard Romney campaign today...
Check out FreeRepublic, they are comisserating and throwing
the ultimate luke warm endorsements to Romney.
Boy, that's a campaign I'd love to see:
Romney, and some southern hack to shore up his creditionals
with the base...
Versus Edwards/Richardson or Obama/Richardson...
Outside of the South, Willard would get pummeled everywhere.
Hey Mitt, now that your looking like the nominee, can we
finally get the press to ask, how come none of your 5 military
age sons is in the armed services?
A nice simple ad for McCain would be, him standing next
to his son who is serving in Iraq....
And Mitt with his sons in their tennis outfits, bike riding gear,
all decked out for a nice day at the estate......
And the simple tag line...
Some Fathers and Sons take their patrotism further then
a campaign slogan...
A sad day for paleo-conservatives. Pretty much only RINOs left in it now.
Praedor Atrebates @ 36:
Enlightening as this is, I just can't bring myself to thanking you for the visual.
This just in. Cornpone Fred has come out with an endorsement. Say's he hopes his backers will toss their support to that nice kid Calvin Coolidge.
Need better visuals?----
Thompson Family
Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain.
[FIFY-Sitemonitor]
Ah, nevermind. Tbogg has the visuals of the fantastic trophies on display.
Darn, Reagan only worked 20 hours a week. Thompson would of beaten that record.
crap!! I wanted him to stay!
Fred Thompson has stopped running.
Thanks Immodium.
-GSD
Bit NOLA @ 52:
Nothing says Family Values like dumping the first wife and marrying
someone younger then your kids...
He was awake long enough to withdraw?
Fred's heart was never in this from the start. He also looks like he's sick
Good lord, just look at him- that guys going to kick over any day now. He needs to scratch "Run For President" off his bucket list.
Why, exactly, did he think he could run? The pickup truck?
Piss off, Fred.
So long you hack.. Bout time. You shoulda stayed with the L&O franchise to begin with... Now you'll probably never be able to get back on it... Tough luck Freddie.. Oh well, there's always the late night infomercial gig peddling whatever.....JD
Fade @ 59:
Good one! :)
I guess Lynn Cheney will give us the thrill of another book
Fred Thompson DROOPED out of the race. before he was asked
boxer or depends?
That's great!!
Kind of wish he stayed though. The longer the cast of characters on the Republican side, the more confusing it is for the Republican voters to choose from alot of nothing.
It's fun seeing one Republican candidate get 51 percent of the vote one time and then 15 percent of the vote another. These guys are all over the place. The Republicans are confused enough. It's like the are in a little rats maze and they just don't know where to go.
But great going Fred. That's one old dried up white guy gone.
Hillary Clinton will solve the little social security problem when she is crowned president of the USA.
retirement will be canceled for everybody (Caucasians, too---it's about class, not skin color)
when the minions are exhausted, they don't complain so much.
Round Midnight Miles Davis
Lady McCheney is secretly supporting Hillary.
Dhalgren @ 60:
Jerri saw herself as Jackie Kennedy?
AH, the Ego-Wifey Train is soon to have it's next off-load, as
Judith (don't call me Judy!) G. is thrown from the rails after Rudy
comes in third in Florida......
Good riddance. He was pretty damned worthless. Not that the rest of them are any better.
Good! Because he would have only made things worse or it would have stayed just the same!
Corporate Globalization or America? You only get one choice!
...Somewhere in hell, Nixon is giving himself a self-high five...
"Dumb as hell, Bob. Dumb as hell."
Batocchio @ 32:
ha! nice.
Michael Smith @ 42:
Believe it or not, Thompson is actually younger than Norris (despite looking old enough to be Norris' father)...
He always reminded me of that creepy dude following Tom Cruise around in Eyes Wide Shut. It's good to see him go.
Bye Freddles! Get some nap time in now...
pissed off patricia @ 62:
POP,
I'm under the same rock (Palm Beach County).
Joe Boyle was the guy who played Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein and the father in "Everyone Loves Raymond." I think they look similar but Thompson has been inhaling the pipe too long (tobacco, that is).
Fred was supposed to be the savior and didn't win a single primary...
Does Fred's departure help Mitt Romney more or John McCain more?
My opinion is that Fred's departure greatly helps Mitt Romney, who seems to be a much more formidable candidate than does McCain.
Michael Smith @ 42:
The irony is that Norris is only four years younger than McCain...
An Average Joe @ 76:
Peter Boyle played the monster, and Gene Wilder played Young Frankenstein. Peter went on to Everyone Loves Raymond (but me.)
Uh oh...
Heath Ledger died. I can just see the likes of Huckabee and Thompson saying it was because of BBM...
Nobody seems concerned. With Fred out, it looks like Mitt Romney's shot is much more clear now. In Florida, Mitt will now beat the old guy McCain who most of the GOP base does not like anyway.
"I'm...pretty tired. I think I'll go home now"
~Forest Gump
Everybody here is joking about Fred departing. OK, that's fine; but really, I'm now more worried about the emerging front-runner Romney. How do we beat him?
It was Bill Clinton's fault, obviously. Duh.
ted @ 85:
What makes you think Romney will get the nomination?
Swash, it seems it's down to John McCain and Mitt Romney, correct? From what I know, the GOP base hates McCain for so many reasons (McCain's support of McCain Feingold Campaign law, McCain's support of McCain Kennedy comprehensive immigration law, McCain's opposition to Bush's tax cuts for the rich, McCain's stopping of the GOP scehem in the senate to get all of Bush's judges through "Gang of 14", McCain's support of global warming legislation, McCain's opposition to torture and wanting to close Guantanimo.) How can the GOP support a candidate like that? This leaves only Romney.
And, McCain just seems to old (like Bob Dole was in '96), wheras Romney has this more youthful, energetic personna and looks good on TV.
I wish I was wrong, but I fear Romney the most, even though the media seems against Romney's chances.
CD @ 31:
They'll reach for the shiniest turd in floating in the can. Mittens.
http://theprogressivepost.blogspot.com/2008/01/drop-dead-fred-campaign.html
Fred Thompson reminds me of an ancient tortoise that spends most of its time slowly munching lettuce, but occasionally will wander a few steps to look around through bleary, half-blind eyes.
Oh, and the tortoise wears thousand-dollar Gucci loafers.
So, Thompson's gone and I see that the Huckster has run out of money now and is asking his staffers to work for "free"...
Well, at least Ron Paul added another $1.6 million to his coffers yesterday and garnered a few thousand more new supporters on-line!
Now that he's handily beaten Giuliani in several states and now that Thompson is gone, perhaps THAT will get Ron Paul some media attention!
By the way, I think Thompson was a "Brut" kinda guy...
Bonkers @ 84:
Now that folks is comedy! LOL!
I figured he was going to stay in long enough to get picked for McCain's veep, so they could run on the grumpy old men ticket.
Now he can go home, sit on his fat, wrinkly ass and sip embalming fluid all day! This lazy dousche was more of a distraction than a serious candidate, though it was funny before he announced he was running to see all the neo-cons shitting all over themselves about him being the next Ronald Reagan! Not even a chimp would want to be on the same stage as this pantload!
"This leaves only Romney."
God help us! That a-hole is like Bush with brains!
Darth, I know, Romney is not only Bush with a much higher IQ, but Romney is a much much better communicator. I'm fearing that this spells real trouble for our side. I'm picturing a debate with Romney standing next to Hillary; and what do we do if Romney picks a (beautiful) woman, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, or a black (J.C. Watts or Steele) or a black woman (Condi Rice) as his running mate -- running against Hillary and Indiana Sen Bayh or someone like that?
the poor (rich) man looks ill , , ,
CD @ 31:
But Reagan's dead.
goatsage, I think most of Fred's supporters will go to Mittens.
Wow, that was some ride you took us on, Fred Thompson!
You know the merry-go-rounds that have the horses that go up and down and around? And then there are the bench seats, for those who got on too late?
You're the bench seat.
Good riddance. Take Rudy with you....
the loafers nor the lettuce helped much ;)
he will never emerge out of his shell again - looks very sick
jimbo92107 @ 93:
See Ya Lurch...............noboby likes watching reruns anyway.
miss_kitty @ 43:
miss_kitty - I left you a message re:yours to me in the other thread.. plse read.
I only know L&O from their episodes filmed in the NYC streets and screwing our schedules
Well, well, well. Looks as if there will be no poorly designed ronald reagan clone this election. LMFAO!
Fred?
who?
too lazy to quit in person,
too lazy to endorse a repug
:lol:
that's the laziest campaign in the history of the US - NO DOUBT!
So.... You need a new dark horse candidate?
Well, you're in luck. In Arizona, there are several dozen candidates to choose from due to a strange provision in the state's election law. To get on the primary ballot, you only needed to file an application.
If you visit ProjectWhiteHouse08.com, you can read (and watch!) the policies of all the dark-horse candidates, from the eye-patch-wearing Republican Sean "CF" Murphy to the ultra-lib, trash-talking, conceptual-artist Democrat Libby "Doctress Neutopia" Hubbard.
And all of them are competing in a "reality journalism" experiment for the Tucson Weekly's endorsement.
Tomorrow night's the official Project White House debate, which you can watch online through ProjectWhiteHouse08.com
Stop on by!
no long a proud american @ 33:
how about a bright child molester with a slow drawl? :lol:
I can only hope I have all the vigor, charisma and passion that Grandpa Fred displays when I'm 98. He's 98....correct? :)
Praedor Atrebates @ 36:
thanks! I thought I missed something... :lol:
Next to Ron Paul 'ol Fred was the only Republican that made sense during the debates when, he was coherent that is. For example, Thompson offered the only real set of solutions to the immigrant question sans the dumb ass 'wall' bullet point.
If I was Fred I'd a dropped out too. He has enough cash, is social security age, can get a few cushy acting roles and when bored, get naked and chase around his ever so plump BBW old lady.
With this catastrophic loss of "the name says it all" Thompson, we are in desperate shape.
We need a Presidential candidate named Fred to run in the Fred Party (former GOP).
Fred 9iu11iani already called and said he would Fred a poodle if Amerika would salute his rash.
Fred (H)redibee has not returned calls.
Fred Romney is the product of multiple Freddings at his grandfather's polygamous Mexican villa.
Fred McCain, our Hero. Bomb, bomb, bomb bomb McCain will take up the Fred Amerika! campaign, as soon as he figures out how to get the U.S. to attack Vietnam again.
Wouldn't it have been appropriate for Freddy to announce his dropping out on Jay Leno tonight?
Not that I'd watch it, anyway.
oh well I guess this proves Nixon right. He was lazy and stupid.
However I kind of support his argument of not giving power to those who what it to much.
Edwards is not far behind!
Mr. Sharpei Face never was serious about it to begin with. Who the fuck cares?
"That’s got to hurt McCain I would imagine. Here’s a new commercial for the Dems. “Even Fred Thompson can’t endorse a Republican for President!” Or something like that…"
John, Excellent suggestion!
F--king waste of protoplasm. Good riddance!
I'm startled he dropped out!
He can go take that nap now, and dream republican arrogant dreams..................................
I look forward to that pathetic, fascist bitch, mary matalin, explaining why dead fred failed. I'll be James Carville is elated, it will be (how long does it take a disgusting elephant bitch to go into estrus ?) okay, three years before he has to poke that douchbag.
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This is great news for Law and Order...
Oh, wait... WGA is still on strike...
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ysbaddaden @ 46:
ysbaddaden @ 46:
whoops wrong button ,
He did , shit I missed it , must of falling asleep , damn old age .
A b'dea, b'dea, b'dea...That's all folks!
RickinSF @ 122:
Looking to soon be ectoplasm.
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