I hope Fred Thompson runs..and Chuck Hagel...and even poor ole Tommy Thompson

He and Fred could team up and be the "Thompson Twins"..

Can't you just see the freepers' heads exploding, trying to decide who's the most inline with their personal prejudices :)

He's immensely popular and a lot of swing voters like him, particularly in the states we need to try to flip - the purple states.

Look, I was an independent voter up until Bush and *I* voted for Thompson (I always leaned a little to the left and have become more so since the Dictator-Tot's reign). I wouldn't vote for Thompson, now, of course, knowing what the Republican party has become, but I can state with sincere honesty that I know of what I speak.

:)

but he was a party-guy after his divorce in 1985 (married his first wife in 1959)

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Anonymous: Saw Fred Thompson at Chez Fancois L'Auberge last night dining with a pretty young thing. (Made the evening for my wife who is a big Law and Order fan). Does he still live in the area? Does he still have a bevy of beauties?

Richard Leiby: No scandal there, sorry. I'm guessing you saw "Hollywood" Fred, a former Senator, with his relatively recent and 24 years younger wife, Jeri. As my predecessor Mr. Grove reported a couple of years ago:

"Fred Thompson and Jeri Kehn met six years ago on the Fourth of July in Nashville. Since then, the Republican senator and the GOP media operative have been romantic, rocky, stormy, passionate, hot and cold, but never lukewarm. "Hollywood Fred" -- as the divorced Thompson was nicknamed because of his successful movie career -- has been linked to a variety of women, including country singer Lorrie Morgan, pundit-pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, Time magazine writer Margaret Carlson, Nathans restaurant owner Carol Joynt and Washington PR executive Sydney Ferguson.

"Now we're pleased to report that Kehn -- whom we've occasionally imagined strapped to a fighting chair on a metaphoric fishing boat, gripping her metaphoric rod and reel -- landed the big one Saturday. The 35-year-old Kehn and the 59-year-old Thompson were married at the First Congregational Church of Christ in the bride's home town of Naperville, Ill. Yesterday the newlyweds were bound for a week-long honeymoon on the French Riviera."

Actually, Reagan was much more disagreeable.

For some reason the GOP, and most Americans, LOVE hack actors, yet have the nerve to complain about "Hollywood" meddling in politics.

This from the party of Reagan, Gopher from Love Boat, and Sonny Bono.

and when he ran for president, no one really imagined the depravity of his henchmen (Bush1 et al), so people did not mind him all that much..until the background guys got stated..

Bush 1 has been in charge (in one way or another) ever since..:grr:

and younger folks who may not know his long political history prior to his acting career.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=500672&mesg_id=500865

on a Law & Order message board I frequent. It was interesting, because the conservatives on the board said they wouldn't vote for him. They said they felt he didn't have the government experience needed, and that he kept going from politics to acting again and again, like he couldn't make up his mind what he wanted to do. Of course, these were just a few people, but they ARE L&O fans.

They are uniformed.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=500672&mesg_id=500865

Tommy Thompson is a joke; Fred Thompson isn't.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=500672&mesg_id=500865

he is a lightweight in terms of his political career. Romney has the backing of the Bushies, and Rudy already has radio commercials on.

Because either someone like Edwards (or Clark, if he ever makes his up mind) can beat him.