The media has it, the other GOP candidates have it, and many Democrats have it. Today, Melanie Morgan further exposes it.
She talks briefly about the Reagan Democrats that are coming to side with Thompson on many left-wing blogs. She also notes that many GOP candidates are trying put an end to the momentum of a Fred Thompson candidacy before it officially takes off.
Mostly, though, Morgan exposes the left-wing MSM's fear of Fred Thompson. She quotes Richard Cohen's piece in the Washington Post about how "Thompson Is No Reagan", where Cohen practically whines about Thompson's lack of "name association" with any real pieces of legislation during his tenure in Congress.
Morgan counters by showing what "name association" has done for current members of Congress. For instance, the backlash that John Kyl is facing in his home state of Arizona and the ruining of John McCain's presidential aspirations (not to mention the backlash faced by Trent Lott and Lindsey Graham in their respective states, too).
Senate Majority Leader Harry "White Flag" Reid is known for leading the attempts to censure the minority during the immigration bill debate and telling our troops that they've lost in Iraq. What has that earned Reid? Well, it's earned him a robust 19% approval rating.
Morgan ends her poignant argument by quoting a critique of Ronald Reagan that sounds eerily familiar to Cohen's statements about Thompson. What makes it more interesting is that the critique was written by, who else, Richard Cohen. I'll leave you with Morgan's final words of the article...
"...time will tell if Thompson is the kind of conservative leader many of us are hoping for.
But it speaks well of Fred Thompson that the best arguments his critics can come up with are the same tired and hollow complaints they lodged against Ronald Reagan a quarter of a century ago."
Truer words have never been spoken.
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You wont post this as it doesnt fir you agenda, but you need to hear it anyway.
NOBODY..repeat NOBODY is afraid of youtube videos or hollywood produced speech. Not the other candidates and especially not Al-quieda. Get a grip already!
Well, you are wrong off the bat, because I did post this.
Secondly, no reason to be afaid of a youtube video...but you should be afraid of the content that lies within Fred's speeches, because the content is dead-on correct.
You're blurting out the same views as the McCain backers, as well as the supporters of the "no chance in hell" candidates.
You fail to realize that it's not just the strong, southern-gentleman composure that Thompson speaks with. It's not the Hollywood experience. It's not his hot wife. It's not even the fact that the man has had many years of experience beyond his term in the Senate at all kinds of levels. While all of those things factor into why people like him, there is one thing that attracts people to him more than anything else...
To paraphase James Carville...
"It's the substance, stupid."
Bullshit. Fred is style over substance if antything. Furthermore him being in the back pocket of Rove/ Griffen is a disaster ticket in the general.
Nobody wants Karl Rove near the WH ever again...but there he is pulling all the strings to get his puppet Fred in there. Fred is toast! mark my words.
You think people are going to vote for the candidate that is puppet of the administration that trying to give amnesty to millions of illegals? Your kidding right? Just how long do you think Fred is going to be able to hide these facts?
A) This is your only warning, watch the language.
B) You're either a Democrat, or a big fan of some candidate who isn't going to win the nomination. Your bluster and bloviating are a sign of surefire frustration with the fact that your candidate's inability to get traction in this campaign.
C) I don't get your Rove connection, when Thompson is pulling in people from the Reagan and Bush Sr. campaigns.
D) Thompson is against Bush's amnesty bill...try reading one of Fred's articles.
E) You're displaying a towering ignorance of Fred Thompson's positions. Go read his articles, find out what the man is really about, then come talk to me. Not only that, but you're also displaying a towering ignorance of what the "facts" really are.
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