Votemaster Andrew Tanenbaum has a nice summary of Fred Thompson’s strengths and weaknessess as likely to be stated by operatives from both parties:
Republicans
- He’s pro life, starting at conception
- He’s for family values
- He is a true conservative; you can count on it
- He was a tough co-chief counsel at the Watergate hearings
- He is against corrupt Democrats AND corrupt Republicans (see above)
- He is on the legal defense board of the much persecuted Scooter Libby
- He served honorably in the United States Senate 8 years
- Like Ronald Reagan, he was an actor and is good at communicating
- He is well known and inspires trust
Democrats
- In high school he got his girfriend pregnant and had a Tennessee-style shotgun wedding
- He eventually divorced his wife and married a cutie 24 years his junior, younger than his own daughter
- For 17 years he worked as a Washington lobbyist for big corporations
- He was a lazy senator who has no legislation to his credit
- He will be 65 in August and has incurable cancer
- Unlike Ronald Reagan, he does not have 8 years experience as governor of the nation’s most populous state
- He was of prime draft age during Vietnam, but he dodged the draft
- He knows nothing about foreign policy, defense or terrorism (other than being against it)
I have one negative to add. He seems to think that if only the Virginia Tech students had been packing heat, the tragedy could have been avoided. That’s wrong on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin.
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