...And the Buzzflash GOP Hypocrite of the Week is.... Drumroll....

[demobabe]

Fred Thompson

Well, the Republicans appear to have found their latest "Great White Dope" to field for president: Fred Thompson.

Thompson may have been a senator and Republican counsel to the Watergate investigation, but his real asset to the GOP is that he's an actor.

Ronald Reagan taught the GOP what a B-actor can do for playing the part of a candidate and then acting the role of president for 8 years. Then they got Arnie elected in California, even though his claim to fame was a movie role called "The Terminator" and his sexual harassment of women. Come to mention it, he also starred in a film that could be the Republican motto of sorts: "True Lies."

So given a field of flawed candidates for the presidency, the fixers and money men behind the GOP one-party rule machine have made a casting call to -- Gasp! -- Hollywood. They want that "Law and Order" guy to come to the rescue.

Thompson has his "common man" PR stunts down to a science, including a made for press photo-op "red pickup truck." This is a guy who favors limos and a young second wife more than 20 years his junior. Just like Newt's third wife.

In fact, the GOP field is so crowded with divorced men (Giuliani is on his third), they could form an alimony club.

A short time ago, Thompson took a cue from Bill O'Reilly and started to beat up on Michael Moore for going to Cuba. In response, "Moore, seizing on a detail from a story in The Weekly Standard last month -- that Thompson's office features many boxes of Montecristo cigars -- wrote a letter to Thompson suggesting the former senator is a hypocrite for liking to smoke Cubans "

Thompson's shadow campaign then posted a YouTube attack on Moore, with Fred defiantly "chomping" on a cigar. Of course, Thompson didn't explain the little issue of breaking the law by buying and smoking Cuban cigars, nor did he address the hypocrisy of it all.

More here: http://gophypocrites.com/2007/06/hyp07022.html

[LiberalFighter]

1. Well... Does Thompson lose the Miami Cuban vote with that?

[napi21]

2. I'm sure he will lose some of them for sure. Last night I was watching

some program where they were discussing changing the US rules of not being able to buy anything from Cuba since the US sells a LOT of food etc. to Cuba already. There was some nithead screaming that "Until Castro is GONE we should not buy even ONE PENNY'S worth of products from Cuba!" I don't know how typical he is of the anti Cuban people in Fl. but for sure anyone like him won't vote for Freddie!

[ellenfl]

3. there are so many! how can you pick just one? eom

[demobabe]

5. There is one every week... although it's hard to decide some weeks

George W. Bush is the most frequent offender as you'd probably guess. If you want to see past "winners," you can see the list here:

http://gophypocrites.com/index.php

[Cha]

4. So the big Hurump Asshole

likes Cuban Cigars? Keep smokin' asshole.

[TwilightGardener]

6. A guy with cancer posing with a cigar. Smart! Go ahead, pal, light up.

[donheld]

7. You know what surprises me about the Hypocrite of the Week?

Rush (Oxycontin) Limbaugh has only one once. I find that quite strange. I'm sure he came in second many more times.

[opihimoimoi]

8. But Rash made ASSHOLE OF THE YEAR more than once in many mags/rags

[demobabe]

10. He gets points for consistency

I can't even understand how he can sustain his hate speech so fervently year after year. He deserves the "Ass Pimple of the Decade" award.

[demobabe]

9. Every word out of that guy's mouth is hypocritical

The guy could win every week, I'm sure. But it would be pure torture to have to listen to him to give the award, and then it would be impossible to give an award based on only one thing he said that week. So when he gets HOTW, he has to do something "extra special," otherwise just file him under "gasbag."

[demobabe]

11. kick

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