<p>Well, he finally did it, and it seems the Christian Right is already sighing with collective relief. How long do you think it’ll be before they figure out that he’s not their savior after all? Looks like the fun of watching this race has been kicked up another notch;)</p>
<p>I don’t think anybody really cares about Grandpa Fred. As long as he’s in the race, though, I hope the media asks him about his non-Hodgkins lymphoma.</p>
<p>He wont have much of an impact. He’s a flashy name and is enjoying some media hype but in the end it will be Guiliani…</p>
<p>is it true that the television networks cant show the law and order reruns that he acts in, because they cant favor a presidental candidate by giving him that much time on the air, or something like that? i heard that somewhere.</p>
<p>According to the Internets, Ron Paul will be the next President of the United States. By a very wide margin.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, the Republicans are indecisive as it is. As the clock slowly ticks down to the primaries, the GOP will put its pants on and eventually settle for a candidate. My bet is Thompson, or Giuliani.</p>
<p>The only thing for certain at this point, is that sticking with certain candidacies (e.g. Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, and the like) is less useful than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I think McCain is still in the running; I believe that he’s more effective as a dark horse candidate.</p>
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<p>A very interesting article about Fred Thompson’s early years. Married in high school, worked 2-4 jobs to support the family and go college and law school…I was quite impressed.</p>
<p>what, he joined th e race, who knew, boy that came out of the blue…;)</p>
<p>and his staff keeps quitting and then talks badly about him…</p>
<p>I am a Fredhead. I think he’s “The Man”. He gets my vote. And, as you can imagine, I am NOT the Christian Right.<br>
He is a very popular man down in these parts. I think he is solid.</p>
<p>If you like the Bush/Cheney neocon foreign policy, Grandpa Fred’s your guy!</p>
<p>Stay in Iraq until hell freezes over because it’s an epic battle of “good” (us) versus “evil” (them).</p>
<p>He actually spouted one of Bush’s big lies in his announcement video. He said that, if we hadn’t invaded Iraq, Sadaam would still have his nuclear weapons programs. Where’s Grandpa Fred been? Doesn’t he know there weren’t any nuclear programs?</p>
<p>His aggressive, power hungry wife will be a major liability and eventually his downfall in his bid for office.</p>
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<p>I’d like to see the actual quote. If he said “still” then it becomes a matter of semantics of what defines a “program”. However, if he said that Saddam would be in power with a nuclear weapons program, that is consistent with the post-invasion intelligence assessment.</p>
<p>Every time he opens his mouth, it feels to me like he’s acting. And not because he played a role on Law and Order, but because it feels like he’s acting. He seems to take himself very, very seriously.</p>
<p>what about him is so appealing- where does he stand on the issues? he dumped his wife for a bimbette, his campaign staff keeps quitting, he was a lazy senator</p>
<p>i don’t understand the appeal at all</p>
<p>and FF, are you still on that rant the inteligence was good. the whole world disagrees with it, so guess somebody needs to hold down the crumbling fort</p>
<p>Yep, the media will have a field day with his “trophy wife.”</p>
<p>Hmmm… maybe I am a Fredhead after all…
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<p>This is the same position that I have come to on this subject (but have not heard it espoused by any politician before this). I have no problems with elected governments (we the people…) making laws that allow same-sex marriage (or for that matter abortion), however, when a few unelected judges feel that they have the ability to create such legislation from the bench it goes against all principles of an elected Democracy. I’m glad to see Fred adopt this view as well.</p>
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<p>Still not sure where you saw this “video”. I checked his web site video … nothing there about this. Could you be referring to the Leno appearance? Here’s what he said:</p>
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<p>There’s no lie here … Saddam unquestionably had a nuclear weapons program at one time and post-invasion intelligence based on interviews of top Saddam officials were clear that he planned to re-constitute it once the sanctions were either officially lifted or, as was happening naturally, after they decayed to nothing more than pieces of paper with no bite.</p>
<p>I’m glad to see that Fred gets it … the result of not going to war would not be one of the 1990s status quo, but rather one of an unfettered and emboldened Saddam.</p>
<p>(Crazy thought) Am I the only one that thinks Thompson looks kind of Nixon? :)</p>
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<p>i never thought about it before, but i guess he kind of does. their facial features are somewhat similar. interesting.</p>
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<p>I was going through my US History book and saw Nixon with his head bent and he looked remarkably like Thompson…except Nixon had more hair :rolleyes:</p>
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<p>One of the blogosphere pundits has a better one. Says Grandpa Fred looks like one of the scary animated pirate skulls on a ride at Disney.</p>