Bloggin’ Fred! bashes Castro, Commies, Socialized Medicine, Michael Moore, Hollywood

Of course you have this LA Times peice where it asserts that Fred Thompson has “Lucked into every opportunity that has come along ” (COUGH OBAMA COUGH)

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-thompson3may03,1,5702030.story

Fred Thompson: Actor, politician, candidate?
Conservatives are clamoring for him to run for the Republican presidential nomination, but what’s his motivation?

WASHINGTON — Fred D. Thompson never took an acting class, performed in summer stock or dreamed of Hollywood fame. But one day a big-name director, preparing a film about political corruption that Thompson had exposed, asked him to play himself in the movie.

A star was born. Thompson, then a lawyer, went on to make 23 movies, countless television programs and millions of dollars.

Now, the accidental actor is being urged to take another role he has not been gunning for, as a growing crowd of conservatives clamors for him to run for the Republican nomination for president.

Other candidates have been refining their game plans for years, but the former senator from Tennessee has glided almost without effort to a strong position in the early polls, even though most voters know him only as a district attorney on television’s “Law & Order.”

If Thompson answers the conservatives’ call to enter the race — and he may offer a clue during an Orange County speech Friday — a prominent question will come with him: Will voters see a real-life American leader, or someone who only plays one on the screen?

William Amos on May 3, 2007 at 6:09 PM