Piling On Fred Thompson

Rick Brookhiser:

Fred Thompson came to the offices of National Review some years when he was still in the Senate. I liked him fine. He has done nothing, anywhere, ever. The Hubble Telescope could not find what he has done, because he has not done it.

Fergus Cullen, New Hampshire's GOP chair:

"Maybe the times have changed, and the Webcast and his celebrity are enough. Maybe he and his tactics are the wave of the future," Cullen said, adding a stinging comparison between Thompson and the failed 1985 launch of a new Coca-Cola formula. "Or maybe he's the New Coke."

Dave Weigel:

The rationale for Thompson's run has been refreshingly phony: It's all about his looks, his voice, his personality. His backers have confused all of that with leadership, and Thompson, like the worst actor, is starting to believe his reviews. That's a mistake. The point of Fred Thompson is that he was never serious.

The good news is that he's really coming into his own on the stump ... or, you know, not.

Photo by Flickr user FreddThompson used under a Creative Commons license.

Comments

Remember that National Review cover from the bad old days when it looked like Howard Dean might be the Democratic nominee? "Please Nominate This Man!"? Well, I think some impish writer for some liberal magazine should suggest something similar now. Except the cover should have photos of all the Republican frontrunners with the caption "Please Nominate Any of These Men!"

Posted by Ashish George | September 8, 2007 4:30 PM

For Big Freddie dreams click here: http://www.newsgroper.com/fred-thompson/2007/09/07/field-conservative-dreams/

Posted by Blackpenwriter | September 8, 2007 6:11 PM

I find this very funny.

Brookhiser, Cullen and Weigel don't know anything about Fred simply because they don't WANT to. ( AND just who the hell are these three stooges? )

Anyway, don't pick up their telescope, just click the links and find out for yourself what Fred has to say;

Fred Thompson Report Archives:
http://abcradionetworks.com/Blog.asp?id=15663&m=7&y=2007

Fredipedia:

http://www.fredthompsonfaq.com/tiki-index.php?page=Fredipedia

Posted by Winghunter | September 8, 2007 6:44 PM

There's nothing much to know about Fred, Winger. He's only running because his young wifey wants to be First Lady and will stop riding Little Fred if he says no.

It's all very sad.

Posted by MoeLarryAndJesus | September 9, 2007 1:11 AM

Fred Thompson is the NEXT Ronald Reagan!

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Posted by Fredhead 4ever | September 9, 2007 4:14 AM

Fred is the Man for our time.

VETERANS are signing up at: http://Vets4Fred.net

Posted by opditch | September 9, 2007 5:48 AM

Meet the new Bush. Same as the old Bush.

Posted by LaFollette Progressive | September 9, 2007 1:26 PM

Amazing!! Moe, who got married in 1988, know the inner-workings of the Thompson's sex life.

Posted by Mark Adams | September 9, 2007 3:20 PM

Ross linked this as an example of how Fred's stumping isn't up to snuff. I think FDT sounded a lot better to the crowd of onlookers hearing those words than he does to us as we read them. The ears forgive rambling far more so than the eyes, especially if the ears hear Fred's voice and accent.

I usually take Brookhiser very seriously. I'm not a Fredhead, I'm for Romney, but I thought he seemed a little over-the-top when he was talking about how dangerous it would be to nominate FDT in these serious times. The next president will face the same series of yes or no questions posed to him by the foreign policy establishment. Most I think Hillary and the frontrunning GOPers will answer most of those quesitons in the same way.

Conservatives are right to focus on who best meets their idea of a conservative, and which GOP candidate can beat Hillary.

Posted by Gyrd | September 9, 2007 4:49 PM

This is rather apropos of nothing, but Brookhiser's choice of words is strikingly inapt. The Hubble telescope is used to view enormous things that are extremely distant in time and space (see here). If Fred Thompson's legacy as a senator consisted of drafting the reforms of Solon, or the code of Hammurabi, this might be the correct imagery; the tunneling electron microscope is the correct piece of technology he's looking for here.

Posted by HW | September 9, 2007 7:24 PM

Fred Thompson: Giuliani-lite, Rudy without the executive experience (or achievements).

As for Winghunter's comments about what Brookhiser et al have to say, it isn't about what Fred is or isn't saying, it's about his record, which unfortunately for him, is pretty much non-existent. No executive experience, or legislative achievements. Brookhiser et al may be nobodies, but they aren't running for Commander in Chief.

Posted by Tom O'Gorman | September 10, 2007 12:02 PM

Mark Adams writes: "Amazing!! Moe, who got married in 1988, know the inner-workings of the Thompson's sex life."

I know the inner workings of yours, too, Marky, since you've been silly enough to post about them.

While I have your attention, could you possibly bring the quality of your prose up a few notches? You're embarrassing yourself.

(And using multiple exclamation points is a practice best left to young girls who dot their i's with little hearts. Knock it off.)

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