Of course Fred Thompson is dumb and lazy.

[Clark2008]

But, do we really think that matters to Republicans?

I keep seeing that from my fellow DUers: that there's no way Thompson can win. Look how dumb he is. Look how he skews and distorts the facts.

But, guess what... take a look at our current Idiot in Chief and ask yourself, "Could it happen again. Could Americans (or voting machines, the media and rural voters) actually vote for another idiot."

Oh yes, I think they could.

[ixion]

1. Ray-gun was dumb and lazy, too... seems to be a prerequisite for a GOP candidate

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

2. If they weren't dumb and lazy

they'd be progressives!

[yellowcanine]

10. Raygun may have been dumb but he was not lazy. He always knew the lines that had been scripted for

him to recite. And he usually stuck to those lines. It was when he drifted away from them that things got fun. Bush not only doesn't bother to learn the lines but he rarely sticks to them anyway, being the lazy unfocused fratboy that he is. Hard to tell yet whether Thompson has Raygun's ability to learn the lines and stick to them. If he does, he could have some potential as a candidate. But based on the early returns, I would not bet on it. He does not seem to have the discipline of a Raygun - or a Hillary for that matter. Hillary would make mincemeat out of him in a debate.

[groovedaddy]

3. Yeah, that doesn't stop these people

It's amazing what a ton of money, an effective PR campaign and a compliant news media can do for a candidate.

[EST]

4. One hundred percent el-correcto!

He has never been accused of being particularly brilliant and his roles in the entertainment industry are what they wanted him to say, not what he would have said.
He has the gift of a stentorian voice but is so dumb he can't really tell the difference between acting roles and real life.

He really is disgracefully dumb, however, it's democrats who are obsessively intellectual, thinking things to death and worrying about the results of their actions to the point where they are almost frozen into immobility.
Terminal stupidity is no restriction to aspirations to the presidency, with the more intellectual aspirants to that office almost never succeeding at acquiring it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Because There's More To Being Successful Than Being The Smartest In Your Class

There's other traits like persistence, empathy in its broadest terms, intestinal fortitude, self motivation, et cetera...

Oh, it's unfair to compare Arthur Branch with Reagan...Reagan wanted to be president for forty years and worked assiduously to that goal....

[EST]

8. Boy howdy!

Ain't that the truth! But there are some things that are absolutely essential to being a president who actually leaves the country in better condition than he found it.
There are unfortumately few who have that understanding.

There is a bright spot to all this, as well.
I am, for various reasons, house bound for protracted periods and I happen to like Law & Order, the tv show. It's a cinch he will not be back on that venue when his fruitless run for the presidency is thankfully over and that pleases me.

[Tamburlaine]

5. Good 'ol Fred

Is physically and intellectually lazy. His campaigning seems to be in slow motion. His thought processes seem even slower.

And, yet again, we have a leading Republican presidential candidate who isn't curious in the slightest about the world in which we live. That, to me, is the most damning thing about him.

His little red pick-up truck won't save him this time though. I cannot see him getting out of bed early enough to win the nomination. His fundraising hasn't been stellar, his stump speech even less so ("Can I have a round of applause?") and he seems to be getting older every single day (yes, I know we ALL are, but it shouldn't happen so rapidly in front of our horrified eyes!).

Fred, please, you aren't enjoying this, go home, get some more TV work, support your friend John McCain if you must. By standing next to him you will make him look brimming with youth.

[zbdent]

7. Republicans try to claim that they're the ones who represent true America

2000 & 2004 put in place a guy that seems like you could have a beer with him (according to many) ...

The Republicans liked the "dumb and lazy" guy ... so that must be reflective of who they are ...

Whereas the liberals are the "intelligentsia" (meaning we actually did well in school, apparently ...)

[EST]

9. I wonder if the apparent need to have someone in office who

is demonstrably inferior to themselves fills some psychological need for the muscle heads not to be challenged.

People with whom I normally associate evince a strong desire to have bright, intellectually superior people in positions of responsibility and don't feel particularly threatened by someone who is brighter than they are.
Most republicans whom I've known always seem to feel uncomfortable even acknowledging that there may be people who are their intellectual, moral and physical superiors. If they are confronted with someone who is pretty, that person cannot also be smart. If they are smart, then they have to have some other deficit which counteracts that smartness.

The human mind is fascinating...well, sometimes.