Fred Thompson's Wife Urges Run For White House!

Townhall.com ^ | Saturday, March 24, 2007 | Robert D. Novak

[dmw]

Hey bud, don't you ever forget to ping me again on a Fred Thompson thread--and I mean it! ;^)

[rob777]

"W" Opting Out (Fred Thompson's Wife Urges Run For White House!)

Such a simple solution.

Would you still have passed on by without looking?




That would do the trick.

[TitansAFC]

Thanks!

I wasn't sure exactly how to post a link via a link.

[The Pack Knight]

Oh, and I should add that only four incumbent VPs have ever been elected President: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H.W. Bush.

Only two, van Buren and Bush, did so after the passage of the 12th Amendment, which established separate votes for President and Vice President (and led to same-party "running mates"). George H.W. Bush was the first VP to win in 170 years. Jefferson was the only one to serve two terms, and the only one to become President by defeating the incumbent President. Richard Nixon is the only other man besides those four to be elected President after serving a full term as VP.

Sorry, I had to indulge my useless trivia obsession, though there might be some relevance here.

[Just Lori]

Novak must be disappointed if that's the worst thing he can come up with about Thompson.

Wait until he announces he's in. The libs will try to make him look as bad as possible.

[TitansAFC]

[rhema]

Run, Fred, run. Let's liven up this race and throw RINOs and Dems into paroxysms of paranoia.

[TitansAFC]

[mkjessup]

I don't wear panties, smart guy.
It's an expression, dumb ass. (if I'm a "smart guy" then you must be a dumb ass for not knowing it's an expression)
I know it's an expression, I'm responding in kind, get it 'dumb ass'?

As for Novak's spinning his involvement in the whole sorry matter, all he had to do was have somebody call him on the phone and say 'hey, I'm a confidential source, Armitage is the leaker', and had he proceeded to publish that fact, the entire Fitzgerald prosecution would have fallen apart inside of a day or so.

If Novak had ended up being questioned about his 'confidential source', he could have said "hey, I just got a phone call, I only reported the tip." - what would HE have been prosecuted for? Telling the truth?

[mkjessup]

See #69

[Hildy]

i>The moment he announces his candidacy, they have to take the Law & Order episode with him in them off the air (including re-runs).

That's very interesting. That effects ALOT of people's incomes....alot of people who really depend on that money. That's alot of pressure.

[philman_36]

...all he had to do was have somebody call him on the phone and say 'hey, I'm a confidential source, Armitage is the leaker'...
Why would he have somebody call and tell him what he already knew? And wouldn't telling somebody so that they could call him be violating his confidentiality agreement?
...and had he proceeded to publish that fact, the entire Fitzgerald prosecution would have fallen apart inside of a day or so.
All together your reply is one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Just my opinion.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

I'm partial to the tasty lil half-smirk she's sporting. Rest of her not too bad either.

[Chode]

but i'd rather take my chances of him winning from the VPOTUS slot than his sitting on the outside running against some RAT that's been there for four or eight years... 8^)

[mkjessup]

You don't get it Phil, Novak having someone call him as a new 'confidential source' would have given him wiggle room to publish the truth about Armitage, i.e. 'CYA', which is always the most important thing in the world of journalism.

That you don't 'get it' really comes as no surprise to me.

Armitage didn't come forward, neither did Colin Powell, Fitzgerald sure wasn't being up front, so as the publisher of the original 'Plame' story, Novak should have been the one to set things straight.

How about now Phil? Is it becoming a little easier to understand?

[philman_36]

You don't get it Phil, Novak having someone call him as a new 'confidential source' would have given him wiggle room to publish the truth about Armitage, i.e. 'CYA', which is always the most important thing in the world of journalism.
And how would this new person know to call Novak to be his "new" source? Novak would have to tell somebody who hios source was first.
No YOU don't get it. You obviously don't know what a confidentiality agreement is and you've shown that you can't keep a person's confidence. If you advocate doing a thing then you would do it as well.
I advise you never speak to the press since you've got no problem with the reporter you told something to in confidence telling someone else.
Protecting your confidential source's identity is always the most important thing in the world of journalism. The public wouldn't know anything if journalists did what you suggest because nobody would feel safe telling them anything.

[philman_36]

And for that matter since other people at the Justice Dept. already knew for up to three months it was Armitage why didn't one of them do anything?
Everybody knows how the Justice Dept. has all kinds of "confidential sources" who just love giving out info all of the time.

[The Pack Knight]

That's true. His best bet would be as Governor of California, but that ain't gonna happen.

[Politicalmom]

She's very intelligent and a former political operative, not some bimbo.

I don't think cleavage will cost Fred votes from the male population, only jealous harridans.

[mc5cents]

The major rap against Thompson is that he was not a hard worker during his eight years in the Senate.

And that is a bad thing because? Government doing less is a GOOD thing in my estimation. It's something to be encouraged not labeled as a "major rap", whatever that is.