I'm with Fred
Check out the upgraded Fred Thompson website. The new version includes a blog and tools that allow supporters to call talk radio and write letters to the editor. Profiles of the candidate-in-waiting have also been launched on MySpace, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. For the latter to have any impact, though, Fred has to twitter. And he should. Lots of bloggers and vloggers tweet and they're very good at sifting information and joining the dots. Fred will need the help of these connectors after 4 July.
Shira Teoplitz got the scoop on the Thomson web team for the National Journal. Well done! And it looks like the oncoming Thompson train has got the usual suspects so worried that the Guardian had to wheel out another anti-Thompson tract from Michael Tomasky, its new US typer. As the first comment on the piece noted, "This is Mr. Tomasky's second "I'm Afraid of Fred Thompson" article in two weeks." Kaaachung! Sound of nail being hit on head.
Comments
Fred refuses to officially announce so he doesn’t have to debate his opponents or participate in the process he is quick to criticize.
Fred refuses to field questions from reporters or even his own supporters.
Karl Rove, who is the mastermind behind the amnesty bill, is the one pulling strings and stiff arming people into showing support for Fred.
Matlin/Carville is sending Thompson to Israel and London this month to pad his resume and make it appear Fred has foreign affairs experience, when in reality, he doesn't.
Fred was for abortion before he was against it depending on who is standing in front of him at the time.
Fred was for McCain/Feingold before he was against it.
Fred, after working hand in hand lobbying with Harold Fickes, a Bill Clinton insider, Fred voted NO to impeach Clinton.
Fred is a globalist.
Fred is a lobbyist.
Fred has never held a leadership role.
Fred is a dirty ol man with a fetish for young girls.
Fred has cancer, is in remission, and could die before the end of one term.
This is just the beginning and this is all we really know about the guy. I predict that more we know about Fred, the less people will support him. It is however, interesting to see So Cons twist themselves into a pretzel trying to sell this guy as the Soon candidate (read: savior) when he is anything but that.
Posted by: Jim Robinson | June 14, 2007 8:02 PM
On the Leno show on Tuesday and referring to his time in the U.S. Senate, Fred said, "I often say after eight years in Washington, I longed for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood." I like a man with wit.
Posted by: sarah mueller | June 14, 2007 10:30 PM
Fred is a dirty ol man with a fetish for young girls.
Ah, such sophisticated political analysis. That's rich, coming from a probable fan of the party of Clinton and Teddy Kennedy. (I was once friends with a Kennedy staffer - you want dirty old man stories? I heard dozens. The staffers assigned to damage control had their work cut out for them.)
And pray tell, just how much foreign policy experience does Obama have?
Actually, the more I find out about Fred, the more I like him. I hope to be able to cast my vote for him come Nov. 2008. By that point, of course, all of us will be longing for release from the longest damn Presidential campaign in history.
Posted by: Donna | June 15, 2007 9:33 PM