Freddie = Ronnie
Is Fred Thompson the long-prophesied Second Coming of Reagan? Let's examining the shocking similarities (and ignore for the moment the shocking ineptitude of the Thompson Campaign):
- Actor of minimal talent? Check!
- Fake populist rhetoric? Check!
- Intellectual laziness? Check!
- "Tough guy" image completely unanchored in reality? Check!
- Severe allergic reaction to the truth? Check!
- Vapid, jingoistic sloganeering masquerading as patriotism? Check!
- Background as a snitch (Reagan for the FBI, Thompson on the Watergate Cmte)? Check!
There are, of course, differences. As a lawyer, Thompson at least recognizes the laws he supports ignoring. Moreover, with his background as a lobbyist, Thompson presumably has a passing familiarity with the government, both how it works on paper and how it works in reality (i.e., money talks). Also, there are no reports as yet indicating that Thompson takes advice from celebrity pyschics via his trophy wife.
UPDATE: E.J. Dionne, Jr. on Freddie: back to the future.
UPDATE 2: Another view on the same topic from The Right's Field.
Labels: Elections, Fred Thompson, President, Ronald Reagan
posted by The Local Crank | 8:48 PM
3 Comments:
He's even played a president several times on the screen. U.S. Grant in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," a fictional one named Ross, and, you're gonna love this, Andrew Jackson. I was unable to find out if he'd co-starred with a chimp. Yet.
Sure he has costarred with a chimp, he was in an episode of "Sex in the City..."
Oooooh. Wait. That was just Sarah Jessica Parker. My bad.
Andrew Jackson, as if I needed another reason to despise this jowly old fraud.
"Oooooh. Wait. That was just Sarah Jessica Parker. My bad."
Whoa, hey now...
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