Wednesday, July 11, 2007
"Conservatives, Beware of Fred Thompson"
Conservative curmudgeon Richard Viguerie ain't too keen on Fred Thompson:
"He turned out to be a shooting star—a dazzling flash in the sky, soon gone, not there dependably, night after night, like the Big Dipper. Or, as The Tennessean later put it, 'A year ago [Thompson] looked like a rising star. Today he looks more like a fading comet.'
"Especially to conservatives who have taken the time to examine his record.
"Rumors circulated that Thompson was lazy, uninterested in the daily grind that comes with being a Senator — and one can understand that Capitol Hill is a lot more tedious and less glamorous than a Hollywood movie lot. More important were Thompson’s failures of will and his lack of leadership on any legislation that would promote the conservative cause. Instead what little leadership we got from Thompson advanced the liberal Establishment agenda."
"He turned out to be a shooting star—a dazzling flash in the sky, soon gone, not there dependably, night after night, like the Big Dipper. Or, as The Tennessean later put it, 'A year ago [Thompson] looked like a rising star. Today he looks more like a fading comet.'
"Especially to conservatives who have taken the time to examine his record.
"Rumors circulated that Thompson was lazy, uninterested in the daily grind that comes with being a Senator — and one can understand that Capitol Hill is a lot more tedious and less glamorous than a Hollywood movie lot. More important were Thompson’s failures of will and his lack of leadership on any legislation that would promote the conservative cause. Instead what little leadership we got from Thompson advanced the liberal Establishment agenda."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, July 11, 2007 
