Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)

Wow. Pro discrimination in the workplace. At a time when most large publicly-owned companies were already spending millions on diversity training. Outstanding.

We need a show called “American President” using the American Idol format. Thousands of people all over America line up for auditions. Each week, America votes off a few of them.
faraway on March 9, 2007 at 11:22 AM

You really want George Clooney for your President?

Off Topic: I sent a tip to HotAir, but I don’t know if anyone has seen it. Fred Thompson is testing the waters for a possible ‘08 Presidential Run.

Over three months ago, wihle guest-hosting Paul Harvey’s morning news, Fred said he would watch to see if a real conservative showed up to play, and if not he’d strongly consider it. I know it was posted here more than once.

Shhhh…skeleton in his closet.

But there’s also Hunt for Red October, No Way Out, In the Line of Fire, Class Action, and even a funny voice part in Racing Stripes. So you can forgive a guy Iron Eagle III, or Days of Thunder, or even Necessary Roughness.

Hell with that – I want Gunny for press secratary! I’d love to see him get in touch with his inner drill seargent in front of the WH press corps :))

Abso ..#$%&.. lutely.

Hmmm, Thompson/Tancredo, I’ve said it before. Pray folks, it works. And while we’re dreaming big, I’ll take Rudy for Attorney General, since that’s his real area of excellence; Newt for State, Brownback for Defense. McCain can be Secretary of Transportation, he can pretend to run a branch of the military (no offense to any mud-ducks about). And how about Michael Steele for U.N. ambassador? Oh, Romney can have the Treasury Dept.

I wonder of Newt sits around kicking himself in the rear thinking, “if only I had kept it in my pants I could be President”

jp on March 9, 2007 at 11:14 AM

Would that be a good trade?

He covered Thompson’s campaign in ’94, and met his wife during that time … oh, and he also thinks he’d make a swell Prez. It’s pretty good, in-depth and informative coverage.

You know who you are. Look, I like Newt. Don’t get me wrong. But you know what I like more? A Republican in the White House. In the latest Gallup poll, which of the top candidates from both parties is……

Run, Fred, Run!!!

Hell with that – I want Gunny for press secretary! I’d love to see him get in touch with his inner drill seargent in front of the WH press corps :))

thirteen28 on March 9, 2007 at 4:40 PM

TRANSCRIPT FROM FIRST PRESS BRIEFING, 30 JAN 2009:

R. LEE ERMEY, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: At ease, ladies and gents. I am Gunnery Sergeant Ronald Lee Ermey and I am President Thompson’s newly and duly appointed press secretary. Thank you all for attending this afternoon. Before we start the official questions about this new administration’s policies and agenda, I’d like to open the floor up to the White House Press Corps for, uh, informal questions about any topic. Just shout ‘em out, folks. Don’t be shy…

DAVID GREGORY, NBC: Sergeant Hartman, how will this administration of actors not come off as a joke when our young people in Iraq are dy–

[Sounds of clattering and smashes as the Press Secretary knocks over the lectern, jumps off the podium and onto the heads of Helen Thomas and Peter Maer]

ERMEY: Who said that?! Who the f[bleep] said that?! Which one o’ you little commie sh[bleep]s in the press corps just signed his own f[bleep]in’ death warrant?!

[Wendell Goler quietly steps away from David Gregory who is standing in a puddle of his own urine]

ERMEY: Was it you, Gregory? Is that why you pi[bleep]ed your bunched-up panties like the little girl you are? Do you think you’re funny?! Are you some kind o’ joker, Gregory?

GREGORY: Wh– What? Who ma–?

ERMEY: No, I’m askin’ the f[bleep]in’ questions now!!

You can’t bash Clinton for his womanizing and then come up with lame excuses for Republicans such as Giuliani and Gingrich who do the same.

Gregor on March 9, 2007 at 2:30 PM

I don’t recall bashing Clinton for his womanizing, or anyone else for that matter. Clinton’s blatant PERJURY was at issue. I don’t think womanizing should be THE issue of our time during this time. We need someone who’s been around the block, has major experience, and knows how to trudge through the quagmire of political BS. Gingrich is the man.
Liberals always try to make it about Clinton’s messing around with the intern. It was about his lying under oath. Something they find hideous when it has to do with Libby, apparently.

Via WND:

An Australian investment consortium that leases and operates U.S. toll roads has acquired Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s Giuliani Capitol Advisors.

It’s the latest acquisition by Macquarie, which has been investing in leasing and running U.S. toll roads for some time and recently has branched out into other industries, including the purchase of American Consolidated Media, which publishes 40 community newspapers and shopping publications in nine Texas and Oklahoma communities, for $80 million.

The Macquarie Group, with some $140 billion under management worldwide, has been an active player in the move to lease U.S. highways to foreign investment capital firms.
The Federal Highway Administration has documented that Macquarie is a major player in the public-private partnerships that the FHWA is promoting as a future means of developing U.S. highway infrastructure.

According to the FHWA, Macquarie has already participated in the leasing of the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Road.

Sal Costello, founder of TexasTollParty.com and a vocal critic of the Texas Department of Transportation, plans to build the Trans-Texas Corridor toll road parallel to Interstate 35. He told WND Giuliani “has to be viewed as just another PPP multi-national opportunist willing to sell out to an international toll road company that seeks to benefit financially at the expense of the taxpayer.”
Costello said he sees Giuliani preparing to focus on his presidential campaign, and he is concerned Macquarie is the investment firm Giuliani chose as an acquisition partner.
“Cutting deals and profiting tens of millions from one of the world’s largest toll road conglomerates has to be considered ‘getting tight’ in any circle,” Costello told WND.

“How many billions of dollars worth of our public highways will be converted to toll roads leased by foreign investment firms under a President Giuliani?” Costello asked.

They group Gore, Clinton, and Edwards as Moderately Well-Liked and categorize Romney Alone as the breaks-even candidate which seems very arbitrary considering the unfavorable/favorable ratios they’re using. McCain, the least Very-Well-Liked candidate, has a ratio of 0.44 (unfavorable/favorable). John Edwards’s ratio is 0.55 much closer to McCain than to Gore (0.71) and Clinton (0.78). Clinton is only 0.05 distant from Romney (0.83) but 0.23 from Edwards. Gore is only 0.12 from Romney, but 0.16 from Edwards.

Another oddity is in the favorability rating trend contrast between Romney and Barack. Between Feb 2007 and March, both improved their favorability with the general public, 5%. But the authors imply Barack is doing much better improving favorability with voters than Romney. But considering that Romney’s recognition stats, a 5% increase of favorability means that, among people who recognize him well enough to response favorably or unfavorably, his favorability increase 28% during that period. Barack only improved his favorability 9% among his group.

Nah, let’s keep the Gunny for Secretary of Defense!

kevcad on March 9, 2007 at 3:28 PM

Hell with that – I want Gunny for press secratary! I’d love to see him get in touch with his inner drill seargent in front of the WH press corps :))

Prosecutor in rape case: Do you have sex outside of marrage?

BJ Clinton: All the freaking time, so why would I need to force anyone into it?

Problem solved

Ken Star: Did you have an affair with an intern.

Clinton: I rocked her world.

Ken Star: Do you feel that was wrong.

Clinton: Have you seen her? It was charity.

Problem solved

- The Cat

P.S. I would back Fred. I mean the guy showed strong leadership durring the airport crisis. Speaking of leadership, the guy skippered an aircraft carrier for crying out loud! *whipser whipser* What do you mean they were just parts?

Fred Thompson/R. Lee Ermey (he’s the guy that played Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket) in ‘08

Oh, the press conferences would be legendary!

ScottMcC on March 9, 2007 at 12:15 PM

Nah, let’s keep the Gunny for Secretary of Defense!

I shook Fred Thompson’s hand at the Santa Clara airport.

Correction – it was the San Jose Int’l airport, and he was in transit to go to LAX.

Does anyone have contact info for Thompson? I’m unable to find anything. Might have to contact him through Howard Baker’s office.

Gregor

More info to draft Fred Thompson here

Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.)

By the way …

Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker was once Ronald Reagan’s Chief of Staff.

I don’t know, man.

Have you seen Iron Eagle 3? :-)

Slublog on March 9, 2007 at 2:02 PM

Can’t do it. I saw the first one and it was bad enough. A second or third one would force me to gouge my eyes with a tabsco-covered ice pick.