Fred Thompson has a column out setting the record straight about his 2008 presidential run. The media has its narrative about him being a dark horse candidate with no fire in the belly, and then we ended up with… McCain. Did he have fire in the belly? At times, it seemed like McCain didn’t even want to win against Obama. And now look where we are.
That’s why you have to fight back against the media. For one, IMAO did it’s best to make sure the real facts about Fred Thompson were out there. And to counteract the fire in the belly charge, Fred Thompson punched one reporter so hard his head exploded. Of course, the other reporters were like, “Well, why didn’t he punch that reporter so hard his limbs exploded too? I guess his heart isn’t really into it.” And once again, that lead to us getting McCain. It’s like we Republicans didn’t even want to win the presidency.
So, we have to take charge of the media narrative this time, because we can’t have a repeat of 2008. We have to be in it to win it, because I’m not sure the country can take another four years of Obama. We might all end up on the side of some road in Europe selling pencils to get by. Hey, maybe Fred Thompson could run again. He better start by punching two reporters so hard their heads explode.
If he really had a fire in his belly, he’d a given that reporter a musket to the junk or two.
I want him to punch the reporters so hard their nads explode…oh yea, reporters have theirs cut off in reporter school. Ok, I’ll go with head splodin’! Let’s get to head punchin, Mr. Fred Thompson! So if he put’s his size 20 up someone’s ass, what then explodes?
What the republicans really need is someone who will press the issues that Obama doesn’t want to talk about, there were too many times Obama said something was “off limits” and McCain just let it go. We need a nominee who will stand up and make obammy explain everything he doesn’t want to talk about.
McCain was the Left’s ideal GOP candidate,
squishy , undefined enough to pin any definition of conservatism on him, and ultimately, a loser.
Even now, many here at IMAO are dedicated to denouncing Fred’s lack of something in the something or other. I suspect they are all working for David Axelrod in a dirty basement in Hartford, CT.
Nonetheless, that is not totally relevant. Fred Thompson was, is the perfect President. He shoots hippies. His slow Southern drawl slows time. His country store wit intimidates dictators. But America rejected him. Why? Because America prefers whining to winning.
When I watched McCain as he sat there DYING to get up and make his concession speech (which I know he wrote 6 months in advance of the election because he was throwing it anyway), watched him practically throw people out of the way so he could get on stage and GIVE the concession speech, I was ashamed for him. People ought not to be that thrilled about losing that they can’t WAIT to tell everyone they lost and how we all have to be good little shills and support the new guy, because McCain didn’t really want it anyway.
Fred, on the other hand, would have been… he would have been FRED! If only he’d team up with Palin, they’d be the best ticket since Reagan and prior to that…um…I can’t think of any good ones before that. Oh yeah, George Washington! Thompson and Palin could beat George Washington and Reagan, or at least they could tie.
I think.
Well, perhaps if the idiot Republican party stopped allowing democrats to vote in the primaries to choose who they want to run against we wouldn’t have ended up with McCain. And, to date, I don’t think the rules have been changed, so get ready for the next McCain in 2012. I hate the idea of a third party, but Boehner and the good ol’ boys club are making it tough to see any other option.
good stuff. Thompson was my guy in ’08 and would’ve made a fine President. Unfortunately, the GOP felt the need to go the “big tent” route and run someone with more centrist tendencies. The most Liberal GOP candidate in modern history. Turned out well didn’t it?
And now we’re still told that us conservatives need to be more inclusive, that we can’t win unless we run moderates for office. No thanks.
Fun Fred Fact from the archives (11 Jan ’08):
Fred Thompson doesn’t have “fire in his belly.” He has a supernova.
So technically, this Kilgore fellow (absolutely no relation to Col. Bill Kilgore) is correct. On the other hand, Komrade Kilgore’s g-nads may not be long for this world. He should avoid any continent that Fred Thompson graces with his presence.
Punching reporters and making their heads explode is the sort of solid, conservative policy we should demand from all Republicans. Once again, Fred(!) leads the way.
Now if some kid runs up to people at a Safeway and starts punching them in the head, it’ll be all your fault and the fault of your violent rhetoric.
A couple of years ago I went to the company Halloween party as the national debt. At the time, I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention to the problem, so I printed up a lot of Chinese monopoly money and stapled it to my robe, and with the addition of a sash imprinted with the text: $100 Trillion, I thought my costume was marginally funny.
When co-workers started calling me back after seeing my costume in pictures, I found myself explaining,”Yes, I dressed myself up as the national debt, but in my haste I got the numbers wrong by a factor of ten.”
Scary thing is. my coworkers–including high-powered financial planners–figured out the reference OK, but nobody called to point out my error–10 trillion vs. 100 trillion.
From Fred’s article:
“Critics say these people sometimes wind up running out of a sense of civic obligation instead of an innate desire to spend endless hours in moldy basements with strangers.”
Endless hours in moldy basements with strangers?
Sounds like a scene from Silence of the Lambs!
“It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.” (yeeks!)
or was he referring to the innate desires of the critics?
Carolyn, If you see that kid punching customers in the head at Safeway, go and pat him on the head and ask him why he was punching those people. If he says “I don’t know, it was fun” punch him in the head…hard! But, if he says, “I can tell people who don’t like Fred Thompson, so I punch them in the head” give the little feller a $10.00 bill!!!
So, what if Fred Thompson like really punched an MSNBC person in the head hard. Not just hard but Fred Thompson hard. Would all the MSNBC anchor’s heads explode? That would be awesome!
Fire in the deep fat fryer!
Fred’s deep fat fryer. Go Fred!
(Hey, I just got home – give me a break here.)
I was thinking that I’d like to pick the two reporters, but then I realized that two reporters isn’t nearly enough.
Mr. Fred Thompson needs to go to my University of Iowa and punch every professor in the head so hard that they have to unzip their pants to take a wee wee! Leave Kirk Ferentz alone, though! He’s one of the good guys ok! But punch EVER OTHER professor hard. The hard way, the nasty way, the hard and nasty way, the Fred Thompson hard and nasty way!!!
It’d really be best if he punched one reporter so hard that two reporters’ heads exploded..
I live in TN. Fred Thompson refused to remain a weak candidate long enough to let me vote for him in the primary.
Fred was the only politician I EVER gave money to. So after he wimped out guess who’s campaign called wanting more money? That’s right, John m0t#erf*<!ng McCain got the money I sent to Fred Thompson.
Think I'll ever give money to another politician?
Fred played a presidential candidate on TV. Fool me once
@ussjimmycarter: I’m pretty sure those professors already have to unzip their pants to take a wee-wee. I think you meant punch them in the head so hard they have to unzip their pants to spit.
Former NV governor Gary Johnson has announced he’ll seek the Republican nomination for president.
“When Gary Johnson goes to Washington, Everybody goes to Washington!” Yay!
He’s got Ross Perot’s hair, but Abraham Lincoln’s nose – If he can grow a beard to hide that weak chin, he’d be a dead ringer for the Great Emancipator (only shorter).
Hey, he’s the only guy with the guts to do more than just ‘explore’ so far, so he’s got my vote!
(Unless Basil wasn’t just kidding around.)
Fred writes: “Therefore, you must be willing to run over your grandmother, mortgage your soul, and behave like an over-caffeinated Elmer Gantry in order to make up for your insolence. Only then will they be comfortable with the idea of your being president.” I think he missed an Important Point: You must be willing to slide into your grandmother with high spikes. (But you all knew that!)