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FDT leading most polls
Fred has played varied roles from cowboy to Navy admiral to tough lawyerFred Dalton Thompson who only recently formed an exploratory committee has jumped to the lead in most GOP presidential polls. The former Tennessee Senator and present actor is famous for his forthright answers to even the tough questions. His ideas on protection of the United States interests and the sealing of our borders strikes a harmonic chord in voters regardless of age or party affiliation. The only cynicism from the far left so far has been that he has a young beautiful conservative wife and played a war criminal in a movie twenty years ago.
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Thompson and Reagan ..ships passing in the night
Humble Beginnings
Reagan: son of a shoe salesman
Thompson: son of a used-car salesman
Nicknames
Reagan: Dutch (after his father called him "a fat little Dutchman")
Thompson: Moose, for his size (he's 6'5")
High School Yearbook Captions
Reagan: "Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music"
Thompson: "The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow"
Shotgun Weddings
Reagan: knocked up Nancy, married her
Thompson: knocked up his high school girlfriend, married her
First Movie Roles
Reagan: played Andy McCain, a courageous radio reporter crusading against corruption in Love is on the Air
Thompson: played himself as the lawyer of a courageous Tennessee woman crusading against corruption in Marie
Degrees from Kevin Bacon
Reagan: Two. He was in The Young Doctors with Eddie Albert; Eddie Albert was in The Big Picture with Kevin Bacon
Thompson: Two. He was in White Sands with John Lafayette; John Lafayette was in Loverboy with Kevin Bacon
Degrees from David Hasselhoff
Thompson: Three. He was in Necessary Roughness with Jason Bateman; Jason Bateman was in The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins with Gary Coleman; Gary Coleman was in a Diff'rent Strokes episode with David Hasselhoff
Reagan: One. If the Hoff is to be believed, he and Reagan worked together in bringing down the Berlin Wall
Acting Role That Boosted Their Political Careers
Reagan: George "The Gipper" Gipp in Knute Rockne, All-American
Thompson: Arthur Branch, D.A.
Acting Role That Damaged Their Political Career
Reagan: Chimp-befriending professor in Bedtime for Bonzo
Thompson: Mein Kampf-thumping neo-Nazi on TV's Wiseguy
Shilled for GE?
Reagan: Yes, was a GE spokesman and host of the popular General Electric Theater television program; fired after his outspoken political views became a liability for the company
Thompson: Yes, lobbied for General Electric in the 1970s; now works for GE subsidiary (NBC)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Reagan: covertly worked to undermine the controversial Haitian leader
Thompson: was hired by Arisitide to convince the U.S. government to support his return to power following a coup in 1991
Senator Howard Baker
Reagan's chief of staff
Thompson's mentor
Richard Nixon (according to the White House Tapes)
On Reagan (who had been a rival for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination): "Reagan is not one that wears well ... Reagan on a personal basis, is terrible. He just isn't pleasant to be around"
On Thompson (who was the Republican counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee): "Oh shit, he's dumb as hell"
Memorable Moments
Reagan: played hardball with the Soviets and abandoned SALT II
Thompson: played sidekick to Lou Gossett, Jr., in Iron Eagle III
Greatest Speech
Reagan: Laying out a vision for the modern conservative movement in his "A Time for Choosing" speech, 1964: "You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness"
Thompson: Laying down the law with feuding race car drivers Cole Trickle and Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder, 1990: "If you want to become a greasy spot on a country road, go ahead. I don't give a shit, and I don't think anybody else does. But you're not going to do it on my racetrack.... You trade paint one more time, I'll black flag the two of you"
By Nick Curran 05/09/07 11:40 AM
on the link below
Nick Curran post
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Draft Fred Thompson site
This post is an exerpt from the Draft Fred site...
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Welcome!
This site is presented as a grass roots effort to encourage former US Senator Fred Thompson to run for president of the United States in 2008.
This isn't a 503c or 103g or anything else... This is simply an effort to get Fred Thompson to run for president.
As a resident of Tennessee and former constituent of Senator Thompson, I can say without reservation that he would be the best man running for the job, should he decide to run. Please join with me in encouraging Senator Thompson to run for president.
Once you've posted your message to Mr Thompson, consider volunteering. We have an organizational section divided up by states and special interest groups. Find the appropriate board and connect with other Thompson advocates.
Once again, welcome. We're very close to making this thing happen.
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Fred Thompson as US Senator
On November 8, 1994, Thompson was elected to the United States Senate to fill the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1997, left vacant by the resignation of Al Gore, defeating six-term Democratic U.S. Representative Jim Cooper in a 61% to 39% landslide which represented the most votes anyone had ever received for a statewide office in Tennessee history up to that point. Thompson took the oath of office on December 2, 1994. Almost immediately upon his arrival in Washington, D.C. ("while I was still unpacking my boxes," as he put it), Thompson was selected by the Republicans to give a reply to a nationally-televised address by President Bill Clinton. This was no doubt due to his acting background, but many pundits saw this as an attempt to groom him for an even larger political role. Thompson was easily re-elected in 1996 for the term ending January 3, 2003 over Democratic attorney Houston Gordon of Covington, Tennessee by an even larger margin than that by which he had defeated Cooper two years earlier. His name was regularly mentioned in the year 2000 as a potential candidate for Vice President alongside the Republican Presidential nominee George W. Bush.
In the Republican primaries, he initially backed former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander. On Alexander dropping out of the race Thompson endorsed Senator John McCain's bid and became his national co-chairman.[2] While in the Senate, he was chair of the Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1997 to January 3, 2001 which conducted investigations into allegations China attempted to influence American politics prior to the 1996 elections (See: campaign finance scandal) and January 20, 2001 to June 6, 2001, when the reorganization of the Senate prompted by the resignation of James Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican Party changed the control of the Senate. Thompson then became the ranking minority member.
Fred in 08
Born in Sheffield, Alabama, Thompson grew up attending the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. He first attended Florence State College and then Memphis State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy and political science in 1964. He received a J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1967. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1967 and commenced the practice of law, serving as an assistant U.S. attorney from 1969–1972. He was the campaign manager for Senator Howard Baker's successful re-election campaign in 1972, which led to a close personal friendship with Baker, and he served as co-chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in its investigation of the Watergate scandal, (1973–1974). He was responsible for Baker's asking one of the questions that is said to have led directly to the downfall of President Richard Nixon—"What did the President know, and when did he know it?" Also, Thompson's voice has become immortalized in recordings of the Watergate proceedings, asking the key question, "Mr. Butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the Oval Office of the President?"
In 1977, Thompson took on a Tennessee Parole Board case that ultimately toppled Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton from power on charges of selling pardons. The scandal became the subject of a book and a movie titled Marie (1985) in which Thompson played himself, supposedly because the producers were unable to find a professional actor who could play him plausibly. This film launched his acting career. Thompson would go on to appear as racist demagogue "Dr. Knox Pooley" in a story arc of the TV series Wiseguy (1988). He has also been in numerous feature films, including No Way Out (1987), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Cape Fear (1991), and In the Line of Fire (1993). A 1994 New York Times profile described his roles as ones that portray authority: "The glowering, hulking Mr. Thompson has played a White House chief of staff, a director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a highly placed F.B.I. agent, a rear admiral, even a senator. When Hollywood directors need someone who can personify governmental power, they often turn to him."[
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