Thompson Improves the Race
Written by Sam on March 13th, 2007
What’s interesting about Thompson’s bid is that he is clearly thinking of entering the race to play a part he has yet to fill on screen: as the tribune of the Right.
Two unconventional Republicans, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, are far ahead of the pack, and there’s a sense abroad in the land that there’s no authentic conservative in the race who has a chance of winning.
In his appearance on Sunday, Thompson specifically declared himself pro-life and an opponent of gun control - two areas in which Rudy Giuliani takes an apostate’s view, as far as the Republican base is concerned.
There’s something a tiny bit off about Thompson playing the right-wing card. He is a political disciple of Howard Baker, the former Tennessee senator who was one of the defining figures of moderate Republicanism in the second half of the 20th century. And as a career trial lawyer himself, Thompson stoutly opposed efforts in the mid-1990s to impose tort reform - a key issue for the Right.
It would be a terrific thing if Fred Thompson entered the race, because he’s a big personality with a remarkable command of the issues and the kind of eloquence that we’re only seeing right now from Barack Obama.
I’m still pulling for Gingrich to enter the race, but I wonder if he would still jump in should Thompson make an official decision to run.
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Thank you for the vacuous comments as ever, let us know when you have something of substance to add to the discussion.
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What, you mean when you repeatedly just resorted to name-calling and baseless arguments about how we were all not allowed to comment on the war because we don’t serve in the military? Is that the intelligent discussion you are talking about?
Yeah, sounds like we sure made the wrong decision shutting you down!
You want to pack up and take off right about now or do you have more nonsense to spew? You brighten my day with your insinuations that you were attempting to engage in “intelligent discussion” and calling the moderator “stupid” and making fun of something I have no idea about (and fail to care about) in the same sentence.
Have you ever heard the phrase, better keep your mouth shut and have people think you’re a moron, than open it and remove all doubt?
You are hilarious.
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Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) officially joined the race yesterday.
Video here:
Ron Paul Announcement on C-SPAN
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Knocking someone’s school doesn’t seem to make much sense if you’re trying to engage in argument like a gentleman. It comes off as petty. I also don’t really understand how you know where Alex goes to school, though as far as I know he posted it so I’ll let it go.
I don’t know what your eugenics comment was. Your book was “Freakonomics”, no? I haven’t read it, so I’m not going to say anything. It certainly doesn’t make sense to me to break natural law for utilitarian reasons though.
Lastly, not a single person on this ‘blog carries a brief for Bob Corker, so you can just leave us out of that thank you very much. Plenty of Republicans are racists, take it up with them.
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This is just painful.
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I did not read your post, sorry.