After a Five-Day Weekend, Old Man Thompson Is Back to Campaigning ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

Tonight he appeared before a massive crowd of supporters. Smell the enthusiasm! Oh wait, that's his Aqua Velva.



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Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson delivers remarks at a Conservative Party of New York State reception,
New York, Monday, Oct., 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)

[ecstatic]

1. LOL @ "5 Day weekend" nt

[Stephanie]

3. He's been out of sight since last Tuesday's debate.

He skulked out of there and hasn't been heard from since.

[SergeyDovlatov]

11. recharging hi batteries? Who is that hotty on the right?

[swag]

2. He was ready for bed three hours ago.

Poor Old Man Thompson.

He needs a cup of hot milk and a good tuckin' in.

[Lautremont]

4. He's fightin' mad about somethin' again!

Edited to add: Crankshaft for President!

[Stephanie]

5. He's mad his handlers made him get back to work.

Is it possible he's lazier than BUSH? I think maybe.

[simpleone]

6. It's like he's competing with GW's "hard half day" of work

:rofl:

What a loser.

[CoffeeCat]

7. Thompson is a living testament...

...to the wondrous powers of glucosamine with chondroitin!

[ruiner4u]

8. Exclusive pic from an early Fred Thompson movie...

[Bitwit1234]

9. I am not making fun of old people

remember I am 75 years old. But the whole bunch look as if just came over from the retirement home. Just his speed. They are probably all asleep just like he is.

[Stephanie]

10. It doesn't bode well for him that he is aligning with these dinosaurs.

Perhaps no minor party has shaped modern-day politics in New York as profoundly as the state's Conservative Party, sending a little-known candidate to the United States Senate in 1970 and helping orchestrate the defeat of a Democratic star, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, a generation later.

But now, with the steady erosion of its base of power over the last decade, the party faces the grim prospect of going the way of the Brooklyn Dodgers, The New York Herald Tribune and the subway token.

***

In the 2002 election for governor, for example, the Conservative Party had a remarkably weak showing, drawing 176,848 votes, about one-fifth of the 827,614 votes it collected in 1990, according to results compiled by the State Board of Elections.

"Party leaders have to be very worried about survival," said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. He recalled the fate of New York's Liberal Party in 2002, when it lost its place on the ballot after a half-century of existence.

***

The party's circumstances are a far cry from its standing in 1970, when James Buckley was elected to the United States Senate on the Conservative line with more than two million votes. These days, some in Conservative circles believe that the party must be open to moderate Republican candidates who may differ with Conservatives on some matters but who are viable as candidates in a largely Democratic state.

"They have to learn to compromise a little bit," said Mr. Stack, the Albany Conservative chairman, referring to party leaders. "Their refusal to compromise is leading them to select candidates who are unelectable."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/25/nyregion/25conservatives.html

[SergeyDovlatov]

12. I wish I had 5-day weekends. Do you think that his wife looks

a little bit like Jessica Alba?

[Blackhatjack]

13. Somehow 'Tennessee Stud' Just Does Not Seem to Apply Anymore...n/t

[Stephanie]

14. Come on. That crowd is three deep.

He's hot hot hot.

[Hoof Hearted]

15. Do they have flags tucked into the floor there in photo 2?

These Republican shitheads and their trampling of the flag always amazes me.

[MilesColtrane]

16. Is that enthusiam you smell or just an overstressed Depends™? n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

17. Whoa! If it gets any hotter in here, some of the dead folks in back are going to catch on fire! nt