Says The Politico:
Fred Thompson has had a relatively easy ride as he has flirted with a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. His strategists have found traction promoting him as the heir to Ronald Reagan — and a conservative alternative to the top tier of the GOP field.
But the ride is starting to get a […]
Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called Fred Thompson’s like Presidential bid a “mighty mouse” candidacy.
Video here.
If Fred Thompson’s campaign is like “Mighty Mouse,” then Huckabee’s is just plain laughable:
Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Monday the buzz about former Sen. Fred Thompson’s expected entry into the race reminds him of a cartoon superhero.
“There is this almost created sense of this Mighty Mouse candidacy, ‘Here I come to save the day,”‘ Huckabee […]
Rob Port addresses the left’s latest obsession with Fred Thompson: His wife.
They’ve attacked Fred for being an actor, they’ve attacked him for saying he is lazy, they’ve attack him for being a traitor (yes), they’ve attacked him for being a bad friend and now they are onto his wife. This is a good sign though. […]
Warner Todd Huston at Newsbusters lays out all of the media’s recent attacks on Fred.
They’re scared, they are very scared:
Thompson is beloved by a media that feels betrayed by that meanie-friend-of-Jerry-Falwell, John McCain, (though not, it must be said, irrevocably). David Brooks is so all over the guy he’s willing to quote Stephen Hayes, a journalist who has so successfully divorced himself from reality that Dick Cheney picked him […]
Because of Thompson’s involvement in the Scooter Libby Defense fund:
Here is the latest from the front page of the Scooter Libby Legal Defense Trust, the group that has been shaking down Republican donors for the money needed to maintain the convicted felon’s silence until an appropriate moment arrives for him to be pardoned byPresident Bush.
“Former […]
Newsbusters:
On Thursday, all three network morning shows covered the announcement that former Senator Fred Thompson would be entering the 2008 race for the White House. And while CBS downplayed the news and NBC’s Chris Matthews wondered if Thompson “has the stuff” to run for the White House, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos was the only individual to […]
CBS reports:
Demonstrating an even more delicate sensibility, The Politico charged that McCain had “swiped” at his “old friend and colleague” Fred Thompson, about whom the Sun scribe had also inquired.
Examiner:
There was a time when Fred Thompson suggested that he couldn’t see himself running for office again.
“For me, the George Washington example of serving eight years and riding out of town on a horse and never returning has great appeal,” the Tennessee Republican said in 2002, the twilight of his Senate career.
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Thompson’s backers bill him […]