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Headline above says "Thompson: I don't think"

Yep ... sounds about right!

I think millions should elect this guy before he starts to!

Thompson has an impressive record as a Washington insider lobbyist, representing foreign mining interests, big tobacco, insurance companies and Haitian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Despite his current posturing, Thompson was also a pro-abortion lobbyist.

He accomplished nothing of substance in his years in the Senate.

He has a distinguished acting career.

Thank GOD Almighty......
A true man at last.....
It is good to see some one with some guts, stand up for AMERICA and freedom.

Freedom and God go hand in hand.

You have my vote

The less is known about this guy's lazy days and simplistic views, the more popular he is.
The more one learns about him, the more one realizes that he is about an inch deep in terms of depth of understanding of the issues. He could be describes as the "None of the Above" candidate in the Republican primary. For those who watch TV and figure he has the credentials of the DA on Law and Order, who confuse image with substance, he is the guy!
He says Roe v Wade is Bad law. Hey, what does the Supreme Court know about the law, anyway? Thompson essentially says.
He says its Bad Medicine. That is why he wants to overrule physicians and hospitals. What do they know about medicine anyway? Thompson essentially says.
The sanctity of the family and marriage..? He must be the expert. says the guy who dumped wife number one for a"trophy wife" much younger as a as sign of success.
Is he still acting???

Fred, you are not Presidential material, go back to Law and Order. You are a much better actor than you are a politician.

This is exactly why I do not watch CNN (Communist News Network) every comment on this subject is negitive and Demorcate. It would absolutely shock me if you all printed something that was fair. the ones who say "I am a Republican" are so demorcate it is crazy. Get a Grip people do want a OSAMA OBAMA or a BILLERY to be the leader of this country? I hope he runs and drives you all nuts. He will get the Nomination by far. It is 1 1/2 years away for crying out loud.

WOW! What a bunch of left wing nut jobs! The fact is all the declared candidates started campaigning 6-12 months too early. I believe Senators Clinton and Obama were elected to serve the public IN THE SENATE, not campaigning two years before the Presidential election! Why isn't the public outraged at this? Just because Fred doesn't buy into that crap, doesn't make him a fence-sitter. Look back at history and tell me when candidates in the past threw their hat in the ring. Wake up!

By the way, the last time someone from Hollywood was President it was Ronald Reagan!

You Dems and your support for candidates that will say anything to get into office are the reason this country is going downhill! Take off the blinders and quit being sheep.

I'm sure this blog post will not even make it past the screeners....so much for free speech!

All the comments about him entering the race late confuse me. He isn't late, everyone else is just too early. The election is still more than a year away. I think starting the campaign 6 months prior to the election is plenty. Most folks don't pay any attention until then, and those that do, get burnt out on it.

Hey xtina why aren't you asking Fred Thompson what qualifies him to be President of the United States like you seem to do whenever you see a post about Obama? Check your zipper, your bias is showing...

If conservative Republicans rally behind Fred Thompson as the best the GOP has to offer, then they deserve a Democrat in the White House.

He has already wasted several months, claiming that he is "testing the waters." Fred Thomspon is either to chicken to join the fray from the beginning or just plain wishy-washy and indecisive.

He attacked Michael Moore over the internet, and then said he wasn't available for a debate when Moore challenged him. How would Thompson stand up against a real tough guy on the world stage like Vladamir Putin? Sending him a nasty e-mail won't cut it.

Stay out of the race Fred and let real leaders fight it out.

I welcome him. He's another hack into the fold to further split votes among people who vote for whom they're told to vote for. Let Ron Paul continue to offer the only alternative to the neocon agenda. Paul's putting true conservatism back in style.

I think Jim Brady of Avon Lake, Ohio makes an excellent pont about chickenhawks who talk tough on war but avoid service. (By the way Thompson took a deferment based on having children).

Those of us who lived through the Vietnam era know what a defining time it was. After a personal struggle I registered for the draft and protested the war. I respect those who served and those who protested, since either position demanded courage. What I don’t respect is those who avoided service for themselves, but advocated war for everyone else. Apparently Thompson is in this category along with our incumbent President and Vice-President.

For a huge data-base of who served and who didn’t, see:
http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html

And here’s a humorous deck of Republican chickenhawks:
http://www.chickenhawkcards.com/

Jan,

Maybe you should back your claims up, you ignoramus. You seem to be the only buffoon here.

What I've heard is that he's on some tv show I don't watch that's in reruns, and when he announces the FCC will pull his shows off the air until after the election (see Schwartzenegger/Reagan elections in Ca). So he's fired as soon as he declares, and if he loses the election they won't want to hire him back. (I never heard of him until he didn't run for pres, and I don't like what I see; hope he doesn't end up replacing Mandy Patinkin.)

Seems like this guy is in trouble when he doesn't have a script to read from.

[...] may get in the way of his presidential ambitions – again. He is also convinced that September is not too late to enter the [...]

I guess he's been rehearsing his lines, getting ready for his big role as corporate lobby puppet.

Can this guy Fred Thompson possibly be for real?

Okay, for starters, he portrays himself as an outsider in the mold of Reagan, yet in reality he was a lobbyist for many years in Washington, status quo, and he lacks Reagan's ideology, ambition, passion, charisma AND HAIR.

He was also the guy that asked the question on a Senate committee circa 1970 that started the downfall of Nixon. He asked the question about the Nixon tapes, whether they exist. Great right? Wrong. He told the Nixon administration all about the question he was going to ask days earlier to give them warning and time to prepare a defense. He was a huge Nixon supporter and good buddy of Cheney who was also in that administration.

Then there's Vice President Cheney's current Chief of Staff Scooter Libby, whom Bush just pardoned for lying about Valerie Plame... Thompson has been Libby's biggest supporter and fund raiser for his "defense fund", which Libby is using to pay that 250,000 fine that Bush hasn't bothered to pardon him of yet.

Do we really want Fred, the guy that's leading the charge for lying, corporate corruption in Washington, to be our next President?

Well, maybe he's a hard worker, you say?

Uh, well, actually he is world famous for being the laziest Senator on record, and even more infamous for his constant procrastination and vacations, possibly even surpassing our current President in that regard.

Well, maybe he's well spoken, you say? Maybe he's tough on terror, you say?

Think again on both counts, I can sum it up in one quote from Fred Thompson I just found in Newsweek, "Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world."

Huh? Say What?

This dumbfoundingly confusing statement seems to be saying that the suicidal maniacs are here and want to kill innocents elsewhere. Not only is it garbled nonsense, it's also intended to provoke fear and combines two totally unrelated issues. He said it at a major speech.

The bottom line is... haven't we had enough of the same old fear mongering, nonsensical talk about nothing from a President constantly on vacation in a cowboy hat while faking a good ol' boy Texas twang already?

Do we really need another one?

Better NEVER than "late."

Ron Paul is a buffoon with no support who cannot be taken seriously

Fred who?

Games is right, 'xtina.' That's all these politicians do is play games.

And then you have Ron Paul, a man of truth, integrity, and principle. It's a shame that people aren't attracted to those virtues these days.

Who cares Uncle Jed Clampit for president. He is too busy rehearsing
his lines for the GOP elite who will rigg the voting machines its all fixed
What a joke this country has become

I don't understand why anyone would support this guy...yet. Sure I like Law and Order but Arthur Branch isn't running. There never will be a "Next Reagan".

Considering the fact that he defended an abortion clinic when he was practicing law, and dumped his first wife for a "sweet young thing", he might as well not enter the race.

The far right Bible thumping Republicans will having nothing to do with such a "sinner".

I have a question,where was Fred Thompson during the decade long Vietnam war,I know where I was in the US Army and I am 68 years old.I suspect that Mr. Thompson is a chicken hawk rather than a true patroit.

He's a real conservative all right . . . slow to move. Will he ever decide if he's actually a candidate? Would he be this slow as President? Come on, he's a tv actor? Hire him to play the president in a movie or something.

This old windbag better announce soon before he expires.

I'm looking forward to seeing the dynamic Fred Thompson adds to the race.

I'm a Republican and I can't stand this guy. He did nothing as a Senator and can't even make a decision on his status. Remember a few months ago when he was supposed to announce on July 4th? Sounds like this guy is too indecisive.

This guy is too late to the show. I used to be enthusiastic about his candidacy, but now that I have seen that he does not really want to campaign and has not really specified his policy stances, I have switched to Mitt Romney. Mitt, I believe, is most qualified to be president and I just don't see how Fred is superior to him.

Freddie– you either need to belly up to the bar or go away. To keep "hinting" you might enter the race but never really doing it just tells me you're afraid to have to face up to the scrutiny of the other candidates. By staying on the edge, you don't have to participate in the debates or answer the hard questions. Sounds pretty chicken to me. Either fish or cut bait, honey. You're looking like a wimp the way you're handling it now.

We really need a lobyist for president.Amazingly that could be worse than Bush.

Give it up, brother.

NO ONE cares.

Fred who??

Great Story! George Bush's brain (Karl Rove) analyzing statistics...oh, wait, isn't he the one with lowest Presidental ratings ever? Don't know who I'm voting for yet.

I have to sat that Thompson is my only fear for the Democrat's seat in the white house. With Guiliani sliding like he's seemed to I feel that Thompson will be the front runner in the GOP shortly and ultimately the presidential contender.

This man is the biggest joke I have ever seen.

Americans don't need another southerner, who is all talk and no action.

He was a horrible senator, and a horrible actor, and that qualifies you as president.

Freddy boy had better wise up. When the media looks into his past personal life and his past political career...you have another Bush. Lazy...incompetent...Lazy.....secretive....lazy....did I mention lazy???

Freddy boy is collecting money to keep for a rainy day.

Just what we need...another lazy bum in the White House

Keith Guice
Franklin, Tn

He's just a stuffed shirt.

I doubt if Fred has the energy to take care of that trophy wife's needs plus run for office. You think he looks old now! Whew boy; just give it a couple months.

Why would we want Hollywood in the White House? Wake Up people! Lets, see umm. Critical time in our nations future... oh lets let hollywood flip flopping cradlerobber trophy wife man run this country. Oh yeah. Thats right. Games. I guess if you call the leader of the free world a game with the game pieces being Billions of human kind.

Don't bother Fred.

The trophy wife will never fly! Never!

Thompson, the ship sailed long ago. You are already extremely late to the party. Better luck next time. Romney's flip flops have already stolen your base supporters.

The problem with Fred Thompson isn’t that he hasn’t declared his candidacy. That’s probably a good strategy since it keep the press from focusing on his questionable clientele as a lobbyist or his total lack of accomplishments as a Senator.

OK, Mr. Thompson...get in the game or get out. I'm tired of waiting to hear from you. I'm Republican, but if you become the GOP nominee, I may sit out the election just because of you dragging your feet. I'm leaning towards Romney or Huckabee at this point anyways, and I'd like to hear more about you and your views, but your fence-sitting is getting on my nerves!

I would never vote for a candidate who enters the race 4 months late because he is too scared to stand up and face the other candidates. It doesn't matter anyway, America doesn't want another phony in the Oval Office. Go back to "Law and Order" Mr. Thompson. You're just wasting your time and money.

Let the games begin !