I Think George Will Just Murdered Fred Thompson in His Political Cradle.

[David Zephyr]

Ouch! Ouch! And Ouch!

Conservative columnist, who is printed in more newspapers than any other (I think that's correct), this morning perhaps provided a mercy killing of Fred Thompson's fledgling campaign for the White House.

In fact, I think Fred was finished when George Will finished his column and sent it to press.

I hope everyone will read the entire article. I don't want to spoil it for you, but it just gets better and better and by the end the blood is all over Fred's cradle. Who knew that Will was a murderer?

All I can say is: Poor Fred, he's already dead. Enjoy Will's column.

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IS FRED NECESSARY?

By George Will

WASHINGTON -- Fred Thompson's plunge into the presidential pool -- more bellyflop than swan dive -- was the strangest product launch since that of New Coke in 1985. Then the question was: Is this product necessary? A similar question stumped Thompson the day he plunged.

Sean Hannity, who is no Torquemada conducting inquisitions of conservatives, asked Thompson: "When you look at the other current crop of candidates -- Republicans -- where is the distinction between your positions and what you view as theirs?" Thompson replied: "Well, to tell you the truth, I haven't spent a whole lot of time going into the details of their positions."

Link to the Homicide Scene: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2007/09/13/is_fred_necessary

[rosesaylavee]

1. Wow. Fred is toast.

It reads very much like something here on DU... Glad to see someone on the right side of the aisle taking off the gloves on the repug candidates.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. In a month, George Will be in love with Fred Thompson.

He's not worth paying attention to.

[frustrated_lefty]

24. Not entirely fair

The conservative nitwits do bounce around, and even the "balanced" reporters like Tweety display raging hardons for rightwing schlameels. Bill Kristol is a marvel of medical science, finding so very many ways to talk out of his ass.

George Will, in contrast, is a good old fashioned, honest-to-goodness conservative, imo. I disagree with the man. But, I do think he is honest in his beliefs and willing to re-evaluate his position when presented with better evidence. Again, this is my opinion, but I do think he's an ethical man who genuinely speaks for what he believes to be the common good. That's rare enough these days, I'm forced to praise it wherever it's found.

[bunkerbuster1]

38. More or less concur about Will.

I agree, I rarely agree with the man, and at the end of the day he's DC Establishment-grade obnoxious.

But still, of all the conservative columnists, he at least makes an effort to appear somewhat balanced, and weighing different sides prior to coming to his (incorrect) conclusions.

You can't say that about 95% of the "conservatives" penning columns, at least that I've seen. He's a towering pillar of decency when compared to a loon like Cal Thomas, who is the second most-read syndicated columnist (shudder, horror) according to the recent Media Matters review.

[Flubadubya]

51. I do find George Will to be entertaining...

what with is pseudohyperintellectualism and all... OMG is that a word? LOL!! :rofl:

[Javaman]

41. prune ass has been in a constant state of imploding for a while...

it's just the public hasn't caught up with it yet.

[merh]

3. wow

I don't think Will likes Thompson.

:rofl:

[lurky]

4. Damn!

I was hoping they would wait until after the primary to destroy him. :evilgrin:

[Blackhatjack]

5. I predicted Fred would implode and be gone shortly... seems others agree with that assessment.

[liberaldemocrat7]

6. Perhaps Thompson doesn't show anything new

However for the bubba Republicans in the South, Thompson gives them someone on the order of Jefferson Davis to vote for.

[Clark2008]

30. Sigh.... not just the South.

Don't you realize there are Bubbas EVERYWHERE. And, in fact, most of them are in the mid-West, NOT the South.

[bleever]

7. Poor Jud is dead.

Poor Jud Fry is dead.

He wasn't all THAT old,
And he had a heart of gold,
But now poor Jud is really gone for good.

(Good.)

[Canuckistanian]

8. I think this sentence just about sums it up

His rambling, incoherent explanation was just clear enough to be alarming about what he believes, misremembers and does not know.

:rofl:

[VP505]

16. When I read that I

couldn't help but think that * has given every moran with a pulse hope that someday THEY could be the decider, god help us all.

[Canuckistanian]

33. And this guy was a SENATOR, fer chrissakes

For 9 YEARS.

There's a whole world of political ignorance and stupidity out there and this guy WAS IN THE SYSTEM for 9 years.

[David Zephyr]

55. LOL!

I read Will's column twice back to back because it made my heart feel so good.

[Spinzonner]

9. Never underestimate

how far a Republican can get on stupidity and ignorance

[Raster]

19. Ronnie the Raygun and George Dumbya come to mind.

[Virginia Dare]

37. Exactly, as long as they can sell him as a "man of the people"

a populist, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with. He drives a PICK UP! Legions of freepers will run out and vote for him.

[Blackhatjack]

10. Dems will never get a clear shot at Fred... Repub Candidates Will Take Him Out Shortly...

George Will thoroughly 'depants' Thompson in this article. But there is so much more that could be said.

Thompson has exactly no chance whatsoever of winning the Repub nomination.

Soon he and his wife Jeri will be wanting to spend more time together, and he will drift off into obscurity.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

11. If you had told me a year ago that Fred Thompson was the most anticipated R candidate for prez, I'd

have said, "Whaaaa?"

Then I would have :rofl: because how could anyone conceivably think this guy could handle a few days on the campaign trail, much less the rigors of governing, even as a puppet?

MKJ

[HCE SuiGeneris]

12. Thank you!

What an excellent first paragraph... and the rest ain't bad either! :D

[Hamlette]

13. George Will writes a wonderfu column on occasion

he was great on the war recently and I have an old column about how hypocritical republicans are to say they are against government spending but finance their houses with government guaranteed loans, use the GI bill (ages ago) and on and on.

So who will the Republicans back? Rudy is sinking, Romney can't seem to take off. I predict McCain makes a comeback as the only legitimate candidate. No, I don't like McCain but he seems more genuine than Romney and more knowledgeable than Rudy.

Maybe The Huckelberry?

[Link93]

14. This is great info for my ongoing battle...

with Thompsonites on another forum. Thank you for posting this.

[merh]

40. The one that really gets under the skin of the Thompsonites

or FredHeads (please forgive them Mr. Garcia) is the fact that Senator Fred Thompson voted that William Jefferson Clinton was not guilty of perjury. :)

That messes with their head something awful :evilgrin:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

58. Nice.

:toast: MKJ

[A-Schwarzenegger]

15. Refreshingly honest, forthright, humble, and down-to-earth!

:)

[lpbk2713]

17. Sounds like something RayGun would say.

He's probably patterning himself after St Ronnie thinking that is his best shot.

[Poiuyt]

18. HL Mencken was right

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
- H.L. Mencken

[spindoctor]

20. You think the people who elected GWB read newspaper articles?

If it was that simple, I wouldn't be here today.

[charlie]

21. He crapped all over Poppy too

Remember Reagan's Lapdog? Didn't make a difference.

[FRedStates]

22. Not so Fast with Fred's Funeral

You must remember George Will is a big Rudy Giuliani fan... and rather than say nice things about Rudy he chooses to say nasty things about Rudy's Rivals. And a look at the latest polls (Rasmussen has Fred over Rudy by 9 points now) and you can understand why he's taking aim at Fred. Lets looks just a little closer at what George writes...

Mr. Will wants us to believe Fred Thompson is unfamiliar with his GOP Rivals’ positions on the issues. Will quotes Fred Thompson. “… I haven't spent a whole lot of time going into the details of their positions." But Mr. Will fails to mention the rest of Senator Thompson’s response which was "I mean publicly. I obviously know where they stand and what they've done and what they've written." So why does the Pulitzer Award winning writer leave this out? Well... to make his point I guess... because if he includes it he has no point.

Will also writes “Thompson said he had advocated McCain-Feingold to prevent, among other things, corporations and labor unions from "giving large sums of money to individual politicians." But corporate and union contributions to individual candidates were outlawed in 1907 and 1947, respectively.”

Here George is trying to make it sound like Fred Thompson doesn't know what he voted for... but this is not the case. I’m sure Mr. Will is aware that despite the laws passed in 1907 and 1947, corporations and unions were still funneling large amounts of money to candidates by way of "soft money" and that was part of what McCain Feingold addressed. There was in fact a provision in that bill that specifically banned campaign donations from Unions and Corporations. Again, an important point Mr. Will chooses to leave out.

A little research on the Internet reveals that George is in Rudy Giuliani's camp... so don't believe anything he says about Fred or any other GOP Candidate.

[bleever]

23. I will take Rudy's prouncements with a grain of salt.

Thanks.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. Can You Give Me A Link To Where Will Said He Supports Guliani Implicitly Or Openly?

eom

[Mandate My Ass]

49. FRed, not surprisingly, has been tombstoned

WTG, mods. :thumbsup:

[glitch]

25. He'll flip when Fred announces his running mate is Jeb.

It'll be love

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. George Will Has Never Been A Friend Of The Bushes

He Called George Pere a lapdog...

[Virginia Dare]

36. He was always a close Reagan ally...

and we all know there was absolutely no love lost between those two camps.

[glitch]

52. Is that way he's been so scathing to Junior?

He gave his heart to Reagan no doubt, but he also sold his soul to power and he knows where it comes from.

Just watch.

[SoCalDem]

27. Up next? Grover's bathtub?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. The kind of people who'd vote for Fred, after 7 yrs of Bush, are not the kind of

people who would read George Will or anyone else in a newspaper, for that matter.

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. What an intriguing title,

[Vidar]

31. Once in a very great while I agree with George Will. Last time it concerned baseball.

[Stinky The Clown]

34. I noticed a simiar phenomenon on MSNBC's air

They seemed almost on a jihad against Freddie.

[Mike Nelson]

35. George Will's slip is showing....

What candidate does Fred threaten most? (LOL!)

[noonwitch]

53. I've always thought George Will was a consistent conservative

He's not a hypocrit-if it's wrong for Clinton, it's wrong for Vitter with him. I don't necessarily agree with him politically, but I respect him.

[Bucky]

56. Like most conservative pundits, he gets off on defending his pals

He may go after the occasional fellow Republican. But when he wants to defend someone he hangs out with at cocktail parties, he can flip flop logic to defend the biggest hypocrisy as good as Rush or Hannity.

[IndianaJones]

39. I am taking such pleasure in seeing this guy crash and burn. nt.

[Clark2008]

42. Where is that happening?

Everyone's still ga-ga over him in the Heartland.

[IndianaJones]

44. He becomes more of a joke every day where I am...

the Republicans seem to be more Romney or Guiliani people around me.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

45. Then Why Is Hillary Beating Him Like A Drum In The Latest Polls..

http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08gen.htm

[Mountainman]

43. Geez, I go to print that article and I get a scary picture of Michael Medved

and why do they use such pretty girls to advertise wing nut t-shirts?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

47. Marketing

eom

[Mr. Ected]

46. Au Contraire, Mr. Will...The Repukes Love Incompetence

Fred Thompson appears to be Bush with a bit more eloquence in his communications skills.

Remember, the Pukes are fine with lies, errors, misjudgments and distortions. Fred is very qualified.

[librechik]

48. posted at Townhall.com--all the freepers will see it!

and George Will is their High Priest. Heh. This is good.

[wicket]

50. "Sean Hannity, who is no Torquemada conducting inquisitions of conservatives"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[David Zephyr]

54. A shameless kick by myself hoping everyone gets to read this.

And hoping everyone will pass this along to their GOP "friends".

[frogcycle]

57. and yesterday he was asked his opinion of congress intervening re Terri Sciavo

and he said "that's going way back in history; I don't remember the details of that one"

[Cameron27]

59. ROFL

scathing.

[Stephanie]

60. When do I WIN my bet???`

I Predict Old Man Thompson Backs Out Before the End of the Month ---pix--->>>

[HCE SuiGeneris]

61. Stephanie...

:yourock:

You continually have the BEST galleries featuring these sick mo'fos. Many thanks for the smiles they bring to my face!