Even consistently repulsive behavior can, in its sheer consistency, provide some intellectual comfort. Today, I was comforted to learn of the DNC plan of attack against one Frederick Dalton Thompson. The Dems plan is to trash Thompson as a Washington insider, ensconced in the culture of corruption. If mere participation in the Washington game is a disqualifying biographical trait then the Dems have picked their nominee. Consider the following:
Hillary Clinton was a lawyer for the Senate Watergate Committee in 1974 and she has rarely been outside the Beltway thereafter. Evita’s career before Bill’s election in 1992 was devoted to peddling influence for such radical groups as the Children’s Defense Fund. Clinton spent most of her legal career working for an Arkansas law firm in its D.C. office.
Joe Biden and Dodd lack even the “drift out” part of the equation. Ol’ Joe has been around since my hair was a long as John Lennon’s on the cover of Abbey Road. Dodd’s father was a Senator and he has spent his entire life as Washington insider, going shot for shot with Teddy Kennedy.
B. Hussein Obama resume contains only public affairs employment. At least Hillary’s show lawyering was done for a private sector law firm, Obama has held public office for the last ten years having left the job world for good at age 36. Obama may never have earned a non-taxpayer or charity funded dollar in his life. By the way, Obama’s no man of the people. His father was a leftist professor and B. Hussein himself graduated from Columbia, one of the most elitist universities in the country, before attending and graduating from Harvard Law School, the most elitist law school in the country. Yes sir, only in the parallel reality of liberal think is Obama an outsider.
I guess that leaves Mike Gravel and the bookends of the Avon Spectrum of Beauty, Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards. I will certainly concede that Gravel is in a sense an outsider, like outside the hospital, but he was a Senator when I was a junior high student.
I must confess a certain lack of detailed knowledge of Kucinich., he is just too typecast. It’s like hearing Tony Soprano every time Jim Gandolfini speaks Whenever Kucinich starts to talk I can only hear “My precious, my precious. Him loves my precious” and then my mind wanders to Middle Earth. Kucinich was iconic as Golem and he should have stuck with acting.
That leaves Edwards, who is an outsider-I’ll give him that one.
So I think we’ll know how to respond to the barrage of personal attacks that the Democrats have in mind for Fred. Nothing new and nothing different from whatever our eventual nominee always faces from the merchants of slime. Actually Fred Thompson’s Hollywood years might best position him to deal with the Evita driven slime machine. Fred can bring a proton pack, corner Carville and Begala in a hotel corridor and lock them down for the rest of electoral cycle. Hopefully the EPA won’t get a Court order to liberate Gozer and Slimer and we'll all be happier.
Hillary Clinton was a lawyer for the Senate Watergate Committee in 1974 and she has rarely been outside the Beltway thereafter. Evita’s career before Bill’s election in 1992 was devoted to peddling influence for such radical groups as the Children’s Defense Fund. Clinton spent most of her legal career working for an Arkansas law firm in its D.C. office.
Joe Biden and Dodd lack even the “drift out” part of the equation. Ol’ Joe has been around since my hair was a long as John Lennon’s on the cover of Abbey Road. Dodd’s father was a Senator and he has spent his entire life as Washington insider, going shot for shot with Teddy Kennedy.
B. Hussein Obama resume contains only public affairs employment. At least Hillary’s show lawyering was done for a private sector law firm, Obama has held public office for the last ten years having left the job world for good at age 36. Obama may never have earned a non-taxpayer or charity funded dollar in his life. By the way, Obama’s no man of the people. His father was a leftist professor and B. Hussein himself graduated from Columbia, one of the most elitist universities in the country, before attending and graduating from Harvard Law School, the most elitist law school in the country. Yes sir, only in the parallel reality of liberal think is Obama an outsider.
I guess that leaves Mike Gravel and the bookends of the Avon Spectrum of Beauty, Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards. I will certainly concede that Gravel is in a sense an outsider, like outside the hospital, but he was a Senator when I was a junior high student.
I must confess a certain lack of detailed knowledge of Kucinich., he is just too typecast. It’s like hearing Tony Soprano every time Jim Gandolfini speaks Whenever Kucinich starts to talk I can only hear “My precious, my precious. Him loves my precious” and then my mind wanders to Middle Earth. Kucinich was iconic as Golem and he should have stuck with acting.
That leaves Edwards, who is an outsider-I’ll give him that one.
So I think we’ll know how to respond to the barrage of personal attacks that the Democrats have in mind for Fred. Nothing new and nothing different from whatever our eventual nominee always faces from the merchants of slime. Actually Fred Thompson’s Hollywood years might best position him to deal with the Evita driven slime machine. Fred can bring a proton pack, corner Carville and Begala in a hotel corridor and lock them down for the rest of electoral cycle. Hopefully the EPA won’t get a Court order to liberate Gozer and Slimer and we'll all be happier.
12 comments:
Oh, my! Sporer is touchy, very touchy. So vetting Thompson is not ok? Are we supposed to have a coronation or what? Surely the R contenders will be tactful enough not to ask anything about Freddie.
At least we now know who Sporer's horse in the race is.
Do I detect a bit of lawyer-envy in your somewhat strange analysis of Obama?
The Kucinich/Lord of the Rings joke could have been cute, but it fell flat. Your "precious" quote is a bit off of the original Tolkien...and dude, it's Gollum, not Golem. Nice try though.
vet his policies. you guys always go for the politics of personal destruction, to coin a phrase first invented by the Clintons to use against Republicans even though they invented the politics of personal destruction for their own use.
Funny how they do that.
and speaking of coronations? Hillary? No coronation going on there, is there?
RF.. You call these attacks "vetting'? Dude, what color is the sky in your world?
These attacks are indicative of one thing.. Democrats are SCARED of what Fred Thompson could bring to this race...why else use a strategy to attempt to discredit him in whatever way they can..BEFORE he even declares as a candidate.
Wow..what a country we live in. The world of attack politics never stops..
Dude, you consider this “personal destruction” or any kind of hard core attack? This coming from the party who gave us the Rovean tactics, the SC McCain attacks, all the “Hitlery” stuff, Swiftboad ads, Edwards bashing, etc. This stuff is soft and lame, well known by anyone who bothers to pick up a paper.
RF..Thompson isnt even a candidate yet! No papers have been filed..no campaign committee..nothing..
Yet, the DNC feels the need to spend money and resources putting together an attack piece on him?
What does that say about what the DNC thinks of Fred Thompson? It projects a message of fear....fear is what generates these attack ads.
By “nothing” do you mean the preliminary/exploratory or whatever you call the committee Thompson formed? And what attack ads are you talking about? I thought it was a press release.
Anyways, let’s hope Freddie has a bit thicker skin than Sporer and other apparent Thompson supporters if/when he enters the race. If he can’t handle this kind of public information about himself, he’s in for a very rough ride, even with his fellow R contenders.
The DNC attacks everybody. Don't read too much into it. Besides, Fred hired Dorr so that should show you how little chance he has of getting out of Iowa.
NEXT
Gee Ted
Can dish it out but can't take it.
Personally I think the White House would look good decorated in strobe lights and a stripper pole in honor of First, no second lady Thompson.
I think it would be an improvement after all those visits by Jeff (Gay Hooker) Gannon during the Rove years.
Did Gannon work for Barney Frank's brothel?
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