Thompson: "A lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, 'I'm done.'

[Quixote1818]

Thompson's Senate career faces scrutiny as nears WHouse race

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"The consensus seemed to be that he didn't like to work real hard, but was good to have on your team," said a Senate Republican aide.

A veteran lobbyist said: "He was viewed as a lazy son of gun who would say at two in the afternoon, 'I'm done.' Can you name one major piece of legislation he authored? I can't."

Another lobbyist said: "I like Fred. But I'm not sure he has the energy to wage a long presidential campaign."


Link: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-06-01T164845Z_01_N01317970_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-POLITICS-THOMPSON.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage3

[Kutjara]

1. Following in the proud tradition of...

Ronnie "Naptime" Reagan and George W. "Nintendo Time" Bush. Another workshy Republican. How very shocking.

[YOY]

2. Bush wouldn't know a 'Nintendo' from a 'Bukake'

or perhaps video games are just the epitome of laziness to you.

[Rex]

4. Got a bukake last night!

:)

[YOY]

8. Gave or received?

Either way...EEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWW!

[Rex]

11. Gave, twice!

Wait, we are talking about video games right? :)

[Gabi Hayes]

5. never mind....beat me to the bukake. no way to top that one

my favorite 'motorcycle'

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Well, it's not the most productive thing a world leader can do with their down time

Or anybody else for that matter. Great fun, but not exactly industrious.

[Kutjara]

20. Not at all. I'm an avid gamer myself.

My comment referred to an article I remembered reading about Shrub around the time of the 2000 election. In it was a timeline of the Boy King's day, which started off with a run, some mountain biking and then a couple of hours of playing video games before he kicked into high gear and did a couple of hours "work." Lunch and phonecalls to cronies occupied the afternoon, then it was home for some more joystick time before hitting the sack at 9pm.

Naturally, these were precisely the qualifications necessary to land him the top job.

[rasputin1952]

17. The joys of the privledged class...after all, work is for the ...

"little people"...x(

[UTUSN]

3. K&R for what we've got in store for us n/t

[TahitiNut]

6. Well, there're Tennesee Walking Horses and there're

... Tennesee Lazy Asses, I guess. :silly:

[Wiley50]

15. Well, some of my TN brothers like to bragg

that their TN whorses have trouble walking

But you know how guys like that are

Most of them would vote for Smirky again

and I've never gotten any real factual proof

from those whorses

or those horses they rode in on

from Texas

[Spinzonner]

7. Sounds like the next Reagan

[Ilsa]

14. That was my first thought as well: Ray-Gun Redux. nt

[Robeson]

9. Sounds like a perfect Repug presidential candidate....

...tailor made for them.

[gulliver]

10. Which Senate Republican's aide I wonder.

Wow, it's like they had Thompson's frame ready before he even had a picture.

[David Zephyr]

12. Spread the word about Thompson.

Lobbyist (Briber) for twenty years. Lazy. Registered foreign agent. The man who greased the votes in congress for the S&L catastrophe.

Yeah, right...a really **great** American.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Maybe he could start his naps at 7am

and not screw up the rest of the world like Bush does.

[Poiuyt]

18. He can have all the flaws in the world - as long as the MSM is comparing him to

Reagan, he's got it made.

[WinkyDink]

22. We DO love our "avuncular" actors, do we not? That's what all these recent

Reagan and John Wayne stories and references are all about: Rehab the Republicans; make Bush seem like some kind of merely incompetent aberration; return to the Sunny Glory Days of "Mr. Gorbachev, take down that wall!"

Fool me twice.......

[BrotherBuzz]

19. Thompson High School Yearbook Caption: "The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow"

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/05/ronald-reagan-fred-thompson.php

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. I've always said it, Fred Thompson is a one role, type cast.

He just went to the Senate because acting Senatorial is what he does best.