I was just watching an ad on Fox for their new tv sitcom called “Back To You” that features Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton. I noticed that the city in the background bore a striking resemblance to Pittsburgh and sure enough the sitcom will be set in the burgh!
That’s the latest trotted out by the left, at least. And - get this - they are getting this material from liberal hero Republican scum ok-we-like-him-when-he-insults-Thompson Richard Nixon!
From Kos:
That’s not me speaking. That’s Richard Nixon’s zombie corpse haunting us with words of wisdom from the grave.
Nixon was disappointed with the selection of Thompson, whom he called “dumb as hell.” The president did not think Thompson was skilled enough to interrogate unfriendly witnesses and would be outsmarted by the committee’s Democratic counsel.
Wow. Next thing you know they’ll be attacking a candidate because Dick Cheney once insulted his choice of tie. Honestly, is this the best they have against Fred?
I got this from IMAO, by the way. Here’s what Frank J. had to say about it:
I hope Fred Thompson’s campaign is ready to spin this one, because that’s just the sort of thing that can sink a candidacy if the public finds out about it.
Honestly, is Fred Thompson that squeaky clean that the Kwazy Kos Kids have to reach this much to come up with an attack? Maybe they can find a grade school teacher of his that will testify that Fred Thompson was at times “unruly.” Sometimes the Kos Krowd is so stupid I almost want to make an account over there and lend them a hand. They try hard within their limited mental range, at least.
With what is looking like an almost certain third party Presidential run by Michael Bloomberg coming next year, I can’t help but to put on my tin foil hat and wonder if there is a Clinton hand behind all of this. Recent polling has shown that almost 50% of voters would not vote for Hillary under any circumstances, so how does she win? The same way her husband did, with less than 50% of the popular vote, but still winning the Electoral College.
The New Jersey General Election poll that was done last week shows Giuliani winning the state, but with Bloomberg in the fray, Rudy ties with Clinton, inferring that a Bloomberg candidacy would hurt the GOP more than the Democrats. Bill Clinton won both in 1992 and 1996 because a strong third party candidate named Ross Perot entered the fray and siphoned off a lot of would be Republican votes allowing Clinton to win electoral votes in states he otherwise would not have. Strong third party candidates are rare and it just seems strangely coincidental to me that the only two times in recent decades that there has been one that changed the result of the election was the two times a Clinton ran for President and now the third time it could happen is with another Clinton running for President.
You can see how Perot changed the landscape by the two charts below. Note that the blue states are actually the Republicans and the red states are actually the Democrats. Traditionally, this is how the parties were always represented until recent years as red generally represents the left side of the political spectrum.
1992
1996:
These charts come from Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, an awesome resource.
Anyway, that is my conspiracy theory of the day. The tin foil hat is coming off now.
Well it looks like not even money can buy you the type of All Star reception that Fred Thompson received at the YR convention yesterday. The Romney folks had spent a lot of money on this event trying to woo undecided voters to their cause and win the straw poll. Still no word on straw poll results, but if the reporters in attendance are to be believed then Fred Thompson knocked this one out of the park.