“In other words, whether it IS an absence of pretense and a penchant for plain talk isn’t important. We just want to be soothed by comforting sounds.
Fred spent most of his professional life as an inside-the-beltway lobbyist (the used car salesmen of politics), has no demonstrated executive skills, carried out the single most damaging attack on the First Amendment in a generation, has a voting record virtually indistinguishable from that of the detested John McCain, but FRedheads are in love because he has a “southron drawl.”
Nice try. I’m guessing Ron Paul, or maybe Duncan Hunter are your candidate. Am I right? Fred Thompson, despite his faults, is head & shoulders above those gentlemen, as well as the rest of the GOP pack. Take another look...
No, JCEccles is a very noisy and rather aloof troll for Mitt Romney, believe it or not.
One would think that living in a cracked glass house, he wouldn’t throw so many stones. Yet, he persists.