Where the hell has he been for the last six years while the GOP has taken it from all sides? Ohhh thats right...hes been out in Hollywood with his wife young enough to be his daughter attending uber liberal hollywood elitist parties with those that have waged a viscious war against the very party he now wants a nomination from!!!

Meanwhile all the others wanting the nomination have been right there in the trenches with us fighting the good fight! But not Fred...no...he was too busy attending Oscar parties and play acting on television to be bothered with it all!

Get real. I will not vote for him.

...right there in the trenches with us fighting the good fight!

That's right, Beansox, you keep fighting the good fight!

I wonder how come all those times there was an "actor" on television damning the GOP, the Administration, and the WOT, ol Freddy never spoke up? Not once did he defend his party. Not during the 2006 election, not during the 2004 election, and no time in between. He has been M.I.A.! He just put his head in the sand and didnt give rats ass about the party or the smear campaign that all his little buddies in Hollywood were waging against it.

But now... now he wants our support. Now he wants us to hand him the keys to White House! He couldnt be bothered with defending his party, but now wants to lead it?

No thanks. I will not vote for him on that alone and I will encourage others to do the same.

Obviously. And vote for your (I'm guessing) homeboy Mitt, right?

I don’t really know all that much about Mitt. My father has good things to say about him and I promised I would look into him, but haven’t yet. I will say this, if I find Mitt has held back from defending his party as to not offend his Hollywood buddies, like Freddy has, I will be just as adamant in my opposition to him as well.

Candidates who hang out with Hollywood elites should definitely be ignored. They simply aren't conservative.

Fred Thompson wishes he was Ronald Reagan. Dont kid yourself into thinking you can pass him off a such.

Where the hell has he been for the last six years while the GOP has taken it from all sides? Ohhh thats right...hes been out in Hollywood

Thompson lives in Virginia, and "Law & Order" is filmed in New York. And for what it's worth, he's also a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

And he helped get John Roberts on the Supreme Court. That alone makes him one of the more productive conservatives of the past six years.

Ah, the old perception versus reality problem.

Hell, I would vote for Fred Thompson in the general election over HRC and BO, and I'm about as Democratic as the commentariat here gets.

Sure, he does rub against my social libertarian tendencies more than just a little, but not nearly as much as the current administration does.

Thanks for all the Fred talk, ITA authors. I am not ready to hitch my insignificant wagon to any of these guys, but the more the merrier at this point. Thompson's possible entrance forces the other front-runners to dig deeper to keep and woo supporters. That has to be a good thing.

I imagine that Fred has been doing what the rest of us Republicans in America have been doing prior to the last election...trusting that the elected "conservatives" WOULD DO THEIR JOBS. If Fred Thompson will save us from wishy washy selves, I say bring him on... and another thing, who cares about his wife? If you're threatened by her look, that's your problem. What could be better than having a media savy first lady? It's the equivalent of Hillary having Bill, maybe even better. RUN FRED! RUN!

Come on Beansux - like you wouldn't want to play some pepper with Thompson's luscious young wife under the bleachers at Fenway! You could finally show someone your Green Monster!

cradleBaron

ALL I can say is, " RUN FRED, RUN".

He has my vote.

To the dude that has decided not to vote for him: I'm assuming that you'll vote for Hillary or Obama?

Vote for the dirty old man!

Since when did having an attractive wife who is successful in her own right been a deterrent? Fred Thompson is without a doubt the strongest of all the prospective candidates on the current scene.

I can't believe this article. What are the good reasons to support Thompson for president, his wife? That just doesn't sound all that compelling to me. You like him, you think he's a good man? That's what everyone said about Bush. The bumpersticker idea, what world are you living in.

holy hell! this man is seeking support from the moral majority? you gotta be kidding me! since when having sex with a woman old enough to be your great grand daughter moral?

Jeri is as classy as a Hooter waitress! Jackie Kennedy, she is not!

The woman is forty years old - she's not jailbait and she's not a hooter's waitress. Have some decency.

I hope that MarkD and Devil's Advocate are just snarky Democrats, because I'd be disappointed if Republicans were so damn tacky.

The woman who matters in this Manchurian Candidate campaign is not the blonde bimbo, but the big dyke. Mary, the Big Dick's daughter, you know?

Plus the Bush genes that have plopped their pale plump hands on the Thompson shoulder and said Go, Son--we got yer back. The proximity of Bushes and Cheneys tells you everything you need to know.

Thompson actually thinks he can pull this act off. (He's getting fitted for a wind-up key.)

Buzzy-eyed FredHeads think they're actually CHOOSING a Presidential candidate and not being flashpopped by a Movie Star with a full platform of grim expressions. No, it's not about the grumble-gravel tones or the SafeDaddyness bathed in warm leathery law-office light. After all, they're at least as smart as Fred is. They just know it. They seen 'im on their TV!

"When you encounter stupidity, you begin to grasp the concept of infinity." --Flaubert

But his voice...it's so soothing...

If you really think that Thompson would be the best candidate to run on the GOP side, then the Democrats have it made.

Looks like beansox was ahead of the curve. Wasnt it Thompson who said it would be Jeri that would campaign for him? If true, the implications that she may have whored around DC looking for a meal ticket, are indeeed relevant.

Come on Beansux - like you wouldn't want to play some pepper with Thompson's luscious young wife under the bleachers at Fenway! You could finally show someone your Green Monster!

cradleBaron at April 3, 2007 03:26 PM

Im a girl braniac. Dont be such a sexist, it reflects poorly on your party and your candidate.

C'mon, Beansox. Is that the best that you can come up with? That Fred took some time off from his political career and perhaps socialized with a few liberals. That obviously hasn't changed his political views or his convictions. If we're lucky, maybe he's made some friends on the liberal side that just might vote for him. And I wouldn't say that he abandoned his party. If he had made a spectacle of himself like some of the Hollywood Liberals had done he sould have no chance at this point. He supported John Roberts in his Supreme Court nomination and he also supported John McCain in his last run for President. Just because he hasn't been in the political spotlight doesn't meant that he has abandoned his party.

And as for his wife, it's not like she's in her twenties or fresh out of high school. The woman is in her 40s and is extremely intelligent and accomplished in her own right. Yes, she happens to be very attractive, but what does that have to do with anything?

I like Fred and will vote for him. He "shoots from the hip" and will tell it like it is. That is a rare find in politics and I just happen to agree with everything that he's saying.

'...right there in the trenches fighting the good fight.'?!?

Name one Republican that has actually been fighting on a Reagan-conservative platform for the presidency since Reagan. Newt isn't in it and if the RINO's weren't such pansy rollovers everytime someone blasted them with rhetoric, Thompson would be an also-ran. Remove the War on Terror issue and Thompson is the only one that has a spine when it comes to conservatism.

The next Jackie O? O please.

The lady may not be bad looking for the slew of old woman that typically accompany the President, but she is not Jackie O, even if your glasses are broke.

Jackie O had style and grace, and most importantly she did not look like she belonged on a street corner. Do you see that black dress? For one, Thompson's "wife" is too heavy for it and for two my wife wouldn't be wandering around looking that trashy.

As a Conservative I am disappointed that Fred Thompson has chosen a trophy wife, it shows Thompson's true Hollywood colors. He's not really a true Conservative. his mating habits prove that.

Just landed on this site looking into Thompson and his wife, that issue. I'm always taken aback by the anger and paranoia on the right. Given the fact that you've had your way now for some time, it seems out of place, like someone duped all of the pawns in the conservative game into being angry at anyone who doesn't support the issues that you are told are most important..key word is told. I spent this morning reading about the real estate market. We have a dramatic up swing in sales and prices of homes over 1 million, and top end couture clothing sales, all while we are suffering an avalanche in foreclosures for homes under 400k. That's a lot of middle class pain, red and blue. Also the global climate needs addressing, yesterday, but we're all busy calling eachother names. This is about power, folks, and that is about money. We need to stop allowing ourselves to be diverted and divided and get to work.

For all the snarky comments about Fred's wife- take note: She too is an attorney, former Senate staffer and an RNC operative known for being a hard-charger. No frail bimbo, she!

For the Texan who's wife wouldn't be caught looking that "trashy"...you should be so lucky.