Fred Thompson will never win

I'm watching Law & Order, you think anyone wants to look at that mug for 4 years?

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He's one of their most distinguished graduates!

I was living in Austin, VERY familiar with the Chimp (even crossed paths with him a few times) and was CONVINCED that once the country saw what a fucking idiot and pud he was that he just didn't have a chance. I even bet a few people and lost some money.

What's that saying? “You can never go broke betting on the stupidity of the American people". Yeah, that's it.

Don't be so sure.

For what it's worth though, I think HIM being sick with cancer is a bigger issue. People will tolerate a sick spouse to some degree, but a sick candidate (even in remission) is another matter.

Yes, technically he's not "curable," which means he won't be considered "cured" until he dies of something else. But he is not "sick." He was treated. The cancer was stopped. Yes, it could come back, but that doesn't mean he's going to spend the rest of his life in a state of "sickness."

And people don't want a sick president.

going to force me to look at a Republican for 4 years, I hope it's at least Romney (plastic as he is). Or Huckabee (at least looks friendly). Or Hagel (looks like he needs cheering up). The rest of 'em--er, please, no.

He's in remission from a very lazy, slow form of cancer, which means he may very well never have trouble with it again in his life.

And he's not healthy enough to be president because he had it? My, the prejudice against people who have had cancer is amazing.

If you want to object to Fred Thompson, there are better reasons. I maintain he wouldn't "look sick" to people if they didn't know anything about his medical history. (Ugly, I don't know--but "sick?)

looked sick before he said anything about it. And no, he's not healthy enough to be Prez, because he HAS lymphoma--not HAD--remission does not equal cure. Slow progression does not equal cure. This is not prostate cancer, which can be excised and cured. This is blood and lymph. It can flare up at any time, especially under the rigors of a campaign (Two words--Paul Tsongas). The prejudice charge is insane. No one is going to put this guy anywhere near the WH--it is the most stressful job in the world. Look how much it ages them all. We deserve, as much as possible, a physically healthy leader of the free world--not a potentially ticking health time bomb.

I know it's different in that the candidate himself has cancer, but these days, so many people are living with cancer, that I wonder if it really will be a big drawback for him.

won't screech to a halt if Romney's wife is in a wheelchair, or if Elizabeth needs chemo. It may, however, if we have an ailing president. It's crazy that people are even considering him. Shows the level of extreme desperation in the GOP. But even they won't be stupid enough to bet their money on a lame horse, in the end.

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People in the Heartland LOVE him - and it's those white male swing voters we need and won't get with our front runners. :(

Speak for yourself.