Phony Baloney Fred

[spanone]

~snip~
Far be it from me to start trouble, but former Tennessee Republican senator Fred Thompson, the presidential candidate who portrays himself as a conservative outsider capable of reforming Washington, is playing down his kinship with this town. Thompson may campaign as a steadfast son of the South, but he is really one of us.

In fact, no other White House hopeful, Republican or Democrat, can come close to matching Thompson's insider credentials. He alone among the contenders has managed to reach the pinnacle of Washington influence: the presidency of the Federal City Council, a powerful, behind-the-scenes group comprising a who's who of this city's top business, professional and civic leaders. The Federal City Council is synonymous with the Washington establishment, and Thompson was its chosen leader from 2003 to 2005.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702031.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[Skidmore]

1. Is Fred a method actor or does he just adlib? That is the question to ask.

[spanone]

2. he loves that 'good ole boy' image but he's a shrewd D.C. insider.

a typical thug phoney

[pretzel4gore]

3. at least reagan didn't pretend

the entire phony tough guy prosecutor act thompson inhabits lacks the silly bonzo charm reagan used, or let others use, to push that self serving mr piggy agenda which never built a goddam lemon stand, in all o history (after all, the entire idea of conning is to get something fer nuttin; ie using others' labours)...hopefully, junyer bush has innoculated the patient from more of dr nicks snake oil cures, but...we'll see. and again, i don't think the patient has much say in the matter, as all the surgery we underwent was never prescribed in fact, and was performed w/out clean hands, anasthesia, and with instruments still greasy from the slaughterhouse re: Clinton impeachment, wooden Gore etc
if the damn patient is dense enough not to violently prevent more quackery-indeed to turn on its promoters foxnewscnnabcbsnbc ad nazism, then maybe the patient better off daid

[radfringe]

4. it's also been reported

he's tight with the bushies, and being backed by them...

do we really want a continuation of the reign of error?

[Olney Blue]

5. Fred is as slimy as they come.

[spanone]

6. Don't you love how the right hates 'Hollywood Types' unless they are right wingers.

[eleny]

7. Yeah, what happened to "shut up and act"?