Another Great Communicator?
“Hail to the Chief we have chosen for the nation,
Hail to the Chief! We salute him, one and all”
- Official Anthem of the President of the United States
“Da Da Da Da Da…boom boom…Da Da Da Da…”
- Law and Order theme song
Hollywood has given Washington several notable politicians. Sonny Bono went from a Billboard star to Congressman from California. Arnold Schwarzenegger retired his Terminator suit for a suite in the Governors mansion in Sacramento. The biggest star to grace Washington was former President Ronald Reagan, whose role in Knute Rocke, All American, helped earn him the reputation as “The Great Communicator”, and perhaps catapulted him into the White House.
The President as a conservative Republican with roots in Hollywood? Seems like an oxy moron. Certainly lightening couldn’t strike again in the same place.
Enter Fred Dalton Thompson. Thompson is a former U.S. attorney, co-chief counsel to the Watergate investigation committee, and Republican Senator from Tennessee. In the final months of his term he joined the cast of the long-running NBC drama Law and Order. In doing so, he became the first serving U.S. Senator concurrently to hold a full-time television acting job; however, his first scenes as Branch were filmed during the Senate's August 2002 recess, so he missed no legislative time in order to act on television.
Roughly two weeks ago, Thompson said he was considering a run for president. Since then, he has skyrocketed out of nowhere to rank third among GOP White House hopefuls in a new USA Today/Gallup poll published Tuesday. The poll shows former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani with 31 percent, Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, with 22 percent, and Thompson with 12 percent of the vote.He's even surpassed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who was the favorite of only 3 percent in the poll.
Experts and pundits agree on the reason for Thompson’s strong showing: he is very popular with the conservative base, something that the other candidates lack.
Why hasn't a single candidate pulled ahead with conservatives? Strategists say McCain hasn't gained overall momentum, Giuliani supports abortion and gay rights, and although Romney is now viewed as a conservative, that wasn't always the case.
Patriot of '76 looks forward to the Richardson vs. Thompson Vice Presidential canditate debate in 2008.
Click here for the AP Govt. Review Guide
posted by CitizenPatriot at 11:11:00 PM
5 Comments:
FIRST COMMETN!
2:24 AM
AHHHH NOT ANOTHER REAGAN!!!!!!!!!
11:28 AM
Thompson has the advantages of appealing to the conservative base and already establishing a name for himself as a Senator and actor. The Republicans almost seem to lack a candidate who strongly appeals to the right-wing conservatives, and maybe the need of a more conservative candidate gives him an opportunity to fill a niche. He might find critics for a number of reasons, possibly his acting career. Or not. Without a doubt, almost nobody will accuse Thompson of something ridiculous like eating cats or eating catfood, which may be absurd accusations other candidates may unfortunately face, as history and past presidential elections reveal.
3:50 PM
RICHARDSON WAS ON THE DAILY SHOW.
check it out on YouTube
that's right
4:31 PM
I just think that this man is too old to be president. I think itd be better to have some fresh blood in the white house and views from people that arnt purely liberal or conservative. The next president really should try and meet in the middle and not just say they are working biparistanly.
9:20 PM
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