On any other subject, where he is cogent, thoughtful, engaging, and clearminded. Why he has abandoned those traits in regards this one topic is beyond fathoming. Buried within his inane rants are some solidly based questions and concerns regarding Senator Thompson’s qualifications for the highest job in the land. The sadness begins when those concerns are addressed factually and respectfully, and he turns into something he is otherwise not.

Spirit of 1776 on July 1, 2007 at 7:10 PM

This doesn’t surprise me about fred?. This will be the 4th or fifth time he has failed to be able to discuss the issues without prepared talking points. He is looking more and more like an actor pretending to be a concerned public servant.

Gianni on July 2, 2007 at 6:22 AM

Yet, here you are, spending the time to respond to what I say. Get over yourself.

csdeven on July 1, 2007 at 6:48 PM

Which is why most of us couldn’t care less what you have to say. We are tired of your childish name calling and you never earned any respect from the start.

When you resort to childish name calling, yes you lose the logical argument.

BTW, does that apply to Ann Coulter too? Don’t make me go dig up your rabid defenses of her.

The former senator addressed a Republican state fund-raising luncheon in the state capital of Columbia. He appeared surprised to see more people wearing “Fair Tax” stickers than “Thompson for President” badges. He did not seem prepared to answer questions about the sweeping tax reform.

Novak’s column. Not that matters in and of itself, but food for thought.

Pablo on July 1, 2007 at 5:35 PM

When you resort to childish name calling, yes you lose the logical argument. As far as respect goes, you have to earn it first.

Pablo on July 1, 2007 at 3:35 PM

You lose.

Funny that you should mentioned Madeleine Albright, for Rice attended a course on international politics taught by Josef Korbel, the father of future Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Maybe Albright should have taken her father’s course, or any kind of remedial course that might have taught her the tools of the trade.

While I am not a fan of Condi’s performance as SoS, Albright fared even worse and came across as a weak-kneed gullible amateur, who joined Clinton and Berger in watching the jihadists attack U.S. interests, reacted like a deer in the headlights and in effect, gave the enemy the green light to continue with no fear of any military retaliation.

Condi has had to deal with the fallout from 9/11, which gave birth to our “new world situation”. Albright, one could argue, rolled out the red carpet for the terrorists, making any future Secretary of State’s job a more difficult task.

Pablo on July 1, 2007 at 1:50 PM

Settle down dude. You’re starting to lose your cool. No one is insulting you and I doubt you are fred? or his wife, so there’s no reason for you to try to degrade this into an imature school yard insult contest.

Yeah. Describe any first lady as “hot” and see what response you get from her. I know exactly what “hot” means and you are right, it doesn’t mean class. Class is a word that is still in use and will never go out of style. “hot” has been co-opted from it’s original context to describe a feeling one might get when looking at a certain type of woman.

“Classy” has NEVER been used to define what you are suggesting when you use the word “hot”. Especially when the woman in question exposes her fun bags the way Jeri does. “hot” means “sexually desirable”.

Marilyn Monroe was “hot”. Jackie was “classy”.

what I’m more worried about is republican Afro.Amer. voter’s actually voting for Obama spite their noses.

Don’t worry. Two reasons: A black conservative will not vote for Obama. Black conservatives are very conservative and eschew race politics as a principle. Secondly, there are so few black conservatives, that portion of the demographic is negligible in any case.

Pablo on July 1, 2007 at 1:35 PM

Paris who?

If you mean letting you try to define “hot” in todays terms to mean “classy” in yesteryears term, don’t worry, I have a dictionary and I know what people mean when they say “hot”, “swinger”, and “playboy”.

freds? spin machine better have it’s bearings greased, because it’s clear the direction his groupies want to go.

Using condi simply for her race, regardless of her incompetence both ideological and practical, is a non-starter for me. Nobody is who going to vote Democrat is going to vote Republican just because there is a black female for VP. In fact, the left sees her as some aunt Tom. People have already decided which party they are going to vote for. The middle ground of Reagan Democrats will side with Thompson hands down over Clinton. Clinton is radioactive. No need to play the race card to get votes from those people.

Pablo on July 1, 2007 at 9:35 AM

So the word “hot” has replaced the word “class” now? Jackie was not “hot”. She was the epitome of class, grace, and sophistication.