So Fred Thompson is probably going to officially announce that he's running for president on July 4th. This is the best news related to the presidential race in a long time. Thompson describes himself as a Federalists, not a Republican. Basically this simply means that he believes we've gotten away from the orginal idea of what the federal government should look like. Now it spends money like banchee, gives money to the poor (church's job) controls tons of aspects of people's lives, is way too big and way too out of control. He's convervative, definitely more so then Guiliani and McCain. Basically he's the man. Two hilarious stories about him.
1) go to http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Fred+Thompson+Michael+Moore and click on the first video. This was Fred Thompson's response to Michael Moore challenging him to a debate about Health care. Thompson wrote an article about how bad Cuba's health care system is in the long run shortly after Michael Moore's documentary about how it was better then the US's health care. This is Thompson's response to Moore's challenge. It's a classic.
2) A female journalists for a Tennessee newspaper said that Thompson looked like Work from Star Trek (go to Google and click on the images link then type in Worf to see what he looks like.) Her comment was something to the effect of "why is he on TV all the time? Why do people think he looks good? He looks like Worf from Star Trek for crying out loud!" So Thompson mailed her a huge picture or Worf and signed it: "in the immortal words of Sawyer Brown: some girls don't like boys like me. Ah, but some girls do."
Anyone who's conservative, funny, a decent politician and especially quotes famous country songs at oppurtune times deserves to be president in my book.
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You left out the best part about him: He was on "Law and Order" and he rocked. Plus, I had dinner with him once...
dinner with Fred Thompson? do tell
A guy I knew knew a guy that owned a luxury box for the Redskins. I was invited to a game. I met him, Cal Thomas and David Badallci. Of course he was and "up and comer" then. We had dinner, watched the game, met a lot of other famous people that I didn't really know. But I did sit and talk to Fred and Cal as though we were all old buddies. For almost 4 hours.
Heyyy - I know you!
Fred Thompson was at a Redskins game?!?!? Was he CHEERING for the Skins? If so, it's a no brainer. In addition to all that Jake said, if he's a Redskins fan to boot, then we have ourselves a new president!!!
I've been hoping he'll run. I was living in Tenn when he kicked Rick Sasser out in 94. I didn't have a meal with him but I saw him riding on an airplane once; in coach.
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