National Journal’s The Gate:
The actor Thompson being, of course, Fred Thompson — star of “In The Line Of Fire,” “Law and Order,” and lately, the fevered dreams of many a GOP primary voter. Unfortunately for Tommy Thompson, that joke may have backfired, as National Review’s Katherine Jean Lopez points out. By the time the next […]
The Politico has more on Fred’s Saturday night speech:
He still not be a formal candidate, but Fred Thompson is beginning to act and speak like one.
Keynoting a fundraiser for the state GOP Saturday night, Thompson worked the room table-to-table before his speech like a pol seeking every possible vote.
And the man who had been known […]
News Leader:
Fred Thompson has played the political establishment like a Tennessee banjo. Now the big question: Can a 64-year-old man who has led the privileged life of Washington, D.C., and Hollywood run against the establishment as a pickup-driving Tennessean for president in 2008?
It will test every ounce of the actor in him.
Thompson has signaled he’ll […]
DNROnline.com:
William F. Buckley once made the classic statement that he’d rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book than by the first 200 people listed on the Yale faculty rolls.
With all the current presidential candidates, it almost appears those 200 people are taking Mr. Buckley up on his offer. Isn’t […]
New York Times:
Fred Thompson — the former Tennessee senator better known to many Americans from his acting role as District Attorney Arthur Branch on the hit NBC show “Law and Order” — on Friday took his first step toward a widely expected bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
Thompson, according to the Associated Press filed […]