Fred Thompson has raised $220,000 in 18 hours (his campaign site only launched yesterday). I put a money raising widget on the right sidebar. Maybe if he raises enough money, he can hire me as a humor advisor for his campaign. Politicians needed a smarter application of humor, and only I understand the science of humor to tell them how.
They know how to contact me.
(hat tip Conservative Grapevine)
I’m going to wait until he’s spoken in some debates before I give him any cash. If he can separate himself from the rest of the GOP candidates in a good way then he’ll get it.
Is the money raised by your sidebar link going to Fred! or Frank?
Oh…my bad. I saw the t-shirt link at the top and thought that was what you were talking about…not the I’m with Fred form below.
As much as Fred intrigues me, I’m with James. It’s pretty savvy of Mr. Thompson to start campaigning now, though, considering the stupid McCain-Feingold bill. 🙁
I should start an “I’m with James” campaign now. Only 22-23 year old conservative females need apply.
I should start an “I’m with James” campaign now. Only 22-23 year old conservative females need apply.
Fred talked a lot straighter on Hannity and #*&^@!last night than any of the prancing, preening, pandering plicks who attended Wolfish Blister’s staged “debate.” (Who is the Republidolt who sets up debates on lefthole TV channels?)
Too bad we have to wait until 2009 to get rid of Bush. That guy, who was and is, an order of magnitude better than his competition was, has turned out to be a turd…Harriet Miers, Campaing Finance “Reform,” The Border, not taking care of business and winning in Iraq..forgetting that you can’t “win hearts and minds” if you don’t kick their asses first, Campean and Ramos, Scooter Libby and etc. etc. On top of that the guy can’t communicate his way outa bed.
But we need a lot more than a decent president. We need a Republican party that ain’t the republidummy party. We need some party discipline and some leadership that isn’t frightened of the latest demohole freak like pill ossi.
He got a hunsky from me last night. I hope he uses it to kick Hillary’s ass.
Absolutely right, Bonanza. Did you see Romney’s response to the abortion question? He started off OK, but then he started talking about tax cuts and education, trying to prove his conservative credentials. The [gentleman] doth protests too much methinks. If you have to prove your conservative bona fides, you don’t have them. Just answer the question and do go off on tangents.
“It’s pretty savvy of Mr. Thompson to start campaigning now, though, considering the stupid McCain-Feingold bill. 🙁 ”
…which Thompson supports. :- P
…which Thompson supportED.
Past tense.
Fred admits McCain-Feingold turned out to be a mistake.
!@#$%, James!!! I AM a 22-year-old conservative female! XP What ARE you, psychic? Or do you just play one on television?
LOL!
!@#$%, James!!! I AM a 22-year-old conservative female! XP What ARE you. Psychic? Or do you just play one on television?
LOL!
Yeah, a big mistake with his fingerprints all over it. From Ronald Kessler’s Newsmax piece on 5/30/07:
[Following the Senate vote of 59 to 41 for the bill on April 2, 2001, McCain held a press conference at the Capitol. With Thompson present, McCain named him and a few other senators as being so important to the bill’s success that it would not have passed without their efforts.]
But heck, that was just one bill. What about all his other fine work? From the same piece:
[Aside from McCain-Feingold, in his eight years in the Senate, Thompson was the primary sponsor of only four pieces of legislation, none of any significance. “I worked for the music business for years when Fred Thompson was the senator from Tennessee,” Hilary Rosen, former chief lobbyist for the Recording Industry Association of America and now a Democratic strategist, said on MSNBC. “So I worked with him in his office fairly regularly, and I have to say, as nice a guy as he is, he is lazy. He was a lazy senator.”
“I’ve been friendly with Thompson for years,” Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund said on The Journal Editorial Report. In the Senate, Fund said, Thompson “had a reputation for being a little lazy.”
Even Thompson’s high school football coach, Garner Ezell, told the Nashville Tennessean, “He was smart, but he was lazy.”]
One thing Team Clinton is NOT is lazy. And as slim as Hillary’s resume may be, half the morons in this country will vote for her just to see Bill back in The White House. With the situation in Iraq unlikely to improve significantly, ANY Republican is going to have a tough fight in ’08, let alone a backbencher like Thompson. The DFTFs are make-believe, people…
I remember another guy that they said was too lazy…his name was RONALD REAGAN!!! If you start hearing this crap it’s either coming from Hillary or McCain’s camp!!! I won’t be sharing it because Mr. Fred Thompson, once in office will then own the IRS and he will soon have some jack booted thugs on your front door with adding machines and rubber gloves ready to tell you to bend over and spread em’…
Lazy, huh? I’m sorry but I don’t see that reputation as a negative for a Senator. Anytime the Government is NOT creating new legislation, I feel better. When they’re busy imposing new rules and regulations on every minute aspect of my life, THAT’S when I feel uncomfortable.
I donated the second Fred!’s site came up, and I have a feeling my earnings for the next many months will be spent mainly on gGun- stuff and Fred! donations…
And I am severely happy with that.
Past tense is correctamundo, spacemonkey. I liked that when he was put on the spot about McCain/feingold, he always said “I”. As in, “It wasn’t the bill I thought it was.” Not “It wasn’t the bill Bush told me it was,” or “they told me it was”, or “the brown hating people told me it was.” He did not deny responibility and didn’t blame anyone else for the mistake. THAT is leadership, and by God, there isn’t one up there so far that’s willing to do that. It’s all vaguary and sidestepping meaningful answers (ie politics). Go Fred Go!
Oops, meant character, not leadership!