Posted on 08/20/2007 2:37:30 PM PDT by hardback
Many compare...most don’t.
Whenever someone calls Fred “folksy” everyone has to do a shot.
Senator Thompson thrilled me when he said in Iowa “I will not apologize for America” or something like that. There will never be another President Reagan, but there can be a President Thompson.
Also: Both had radio shows, both were urged to run by others, both had TV shows, both were masculine men, both were divorced once, both had no great love for Hollywood, etc...
It's commonplace to see Reagan as an actor, and he was that, but his evolving role as a "spokesman" involved more than that. If Fred had more of that kind of experience -- not playing a role, but communicating a message -- people would feel more comfortable with him now.
I’ve got a bottle of tequila on my desk but I can’t get to it because they’re refinishing the floor. GRRR!
Fred and Reagan both worked in Hollywood and both are/were conservative. That's about it except all three have mass appeal.
I've never heard Fred's Radio show. When was it? How long did it last? It was Reagan's Radio Show (more than anything else) that won me over. Those were dark days from the time Nixon resigned in disgrace until Jimmy Carter left office just as the Iran hostages left Tehran.
I was working two jobs to get through college or just to get by. Reagan's Radio Show came on just as I was driving to my 6 to midnight night shift . . . then it was home to sleep until 6 a.m. when I got up for my day job and classes between.
Fred is Heads Above anybody we have running now. Fred will do a great job....
OK, for me his credentials say it all.
"Ronald Reagan had an ability and a real underestimated skill of being able to touch very deep-held American myths and beliefs," Smith said. "When he would talk about the city on the hill, he really could resonate with our Puritan past. Fred Thompson, I don't think he has any of those skills at all."
What the heck are "very deeply-held American "myths"! And what is the "Puritan past" dig. As if there is anything Puritan about our present.
If they can't beat him on the issues, they will compare him to Reagan and say he doesn't measure up. Who does?
These people are scared!
Fred rejects the comparison.
Exctlly. Reagan paid his dues, it seems a lot of folks think they can snap their fingers or have “a sudden change of heart” and fool us into thinking their Ronald Reagan.
LLS
I don’t know of any instance where Fred Thompson has made the comparison of himself to Reagan, and I also don’t think many Fred supporters think of him as the next Reagan. I certainly don’t. I think of him as my choice for 2008. This is purely media-driven, IMO.
Fred is his own man with his own personality that has mass appeal. He is nothing like Reagan in the areas I mentioned, which doesn’t mean he isn’t talented.
Declaring now would just set Fred up for a longer period to be twisted into a unrecognizable characterization of his personal and professional record.
With HC being such a weak and flawed candidate combined with pent up Dem motivation, swift-boat trauma still fresh, war raging, and the currently scandal crazed DC leadership, the politics of personal destruction will reach a level beyond anything nearly anyone can imagine.
I expect the press and strategists to reach new lows, as everyone searches for the bottom in negative, misleading campaigning.
“Many Compare Fred Thompson to Reagan”
In a related story: “new study has determined that “many” are shallow thinkers”
I know of no one who would.
What exactly did Fred Thompson accomplish during eight years as a U.S. Senator of the Majority Party? He was representing a faily conservative state. Mitt Romney, OTOH, was governing a Lieberal Toilet for four years. Which one got more done?
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