Gingrich lands Fred Thompson endorsement

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/23/gingrich-lands-fred-thompson-endorsement/

(CNN) - Former Sen. Fred Thompson, the real life lawyer perhaps best known for playing one on television, announced his endorsement of Newt Gingrich Monday evening.

"I have come to the growing realization that Newt Gingrich is the guy who can articulate what America is all about," Thompson said of the former House speaker on Fox News.

Thompson, who played District Attorney Arthur Branch on "Law and Order," landed the role after a nearly ten-year tenure in the Senate. Before that, he practiced law privately and for the federal government. He ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008, and said Monday the next president would be well served to have an insider's view of Washington.

"I don't think it's any more an advantage to be able to say I know nothing about the operation of the federal government," he said. "I know something about it. Newt knows something about it. It's a colossal mess."

[Canuckistanian]

1. Ooooo

They're bringing out the BIG GUNS now.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

5. More like waking up the big guns from a nap.

Who was it that said Fred Thompson has all the charisma of your grandfather after waking him up from a nap?

[Ishoutandscream2]

17. Yep, we're screwed now!!!!!!!

[pinto]

2. But, but...Newt said he was an "outsider".

Fred didn't follow the script on that one.

[izquierdista]

3. Getting the lock on the stupid vote

"Oh, shit! That kid? He's dumb as hell." -- Richard Nixon, on Watergate tapes, after being told Fred Thompson was hired as Republican counsel

[gateley]

4. How embarrassing for Newt. nt

[K8-EEE]

6. Prediction: Newt will be on TV selling reverse mortgages in 2 years

Just like this schmoe Fred Thompson. Must funnel all the middle-class inheritance to the banks. Having lots of uninsured people helps them out!

[Summer Hathaway]

7. Well, that's it then

Game over, folks. As goes Fred Thompson, so goes the nation.

[Marie Marie]

8. Yes, but can he get that all important Sarah Palin endorsement?

Irrelevance Rules!

[krispos42]

9. Lemme fix that for you...

Gingrich lands Fred Thompson* endorsement



*Compensated spokesperson

[marasinghe]

10. hell! who's next for the snowman - the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse?

a pic like that @ 3 am should have to pass a DU jury with a professional exorcist on the panel.

[6000eliot]

11. That's one coveted endorsement.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. Yessir, just wait til he gets on the campaign trial! They won't know what hit 'em! Freddie will -

ZZZzzzzzzzzz

[nanabugg]

13. "...can articulate what America is about."?

About demeaning people who need and use food stamps?
About stereotyping AA youth as not wanting to work?
About race-baiting, lying, cheating, helping no one but the rich, promoting adultery, scandalizing and demeaning other peoples' religion,...yep Newt is the one to articulate that.

[Norrin Radd]

14. Coming up: endorsements from Count Chocula and Boo Berry.

[tanyev]

15. My God, if Newt can follow that up with the Fred Grandy endorsement,

Mitt better just go home.

[yellowcanine]

19. I am waiting with bated breath for the Phil Gramm endorsement. And hopefully he can get

Dickey Flatt to endorse the salamander also.

[IDemo]

16. I was hoping we could avoid that

We're doomed now.

[JoePhilly]

18. He should have said .... "If Newt becomes President ...

"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. "

[Turbineguy]

20. Freddie Thompson

Freddie Mac. Coincidence? I think not! How much is Thompson paying Newt?