Why DailyKossacks Are High On Fred Thompson
By SusanUnPC on July 26, 2007 at 2:44 PM in Current Affairs, Presidential Candidates
By SusanUnPC … On top of the news that “Thompson, GOP savior, has only raised about $3 million?” — and that his “May wife” Jeri is running the show for the Scooter-Libby-lovin’ Neo-con and serial napper (more on Jeri and money below) — there’s “Fred Thompson: Champion of Stoners and Crackheads“:
Please excuse the title of my diary, but I wanted to imagine how rightwing blowhards would interpret an article like the one the Washington Post put out today on Fred Thompson, No Easy Verdict on Thompson The Lawyer, if it were about a Democratic candidate. Take a look at the first paragraph of the article:
Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV’s “Law and Order,” Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued against the government’s authority to regulate drug paraphernalia or to search a boat packed with 14 tons of marijuana.
Imagine the field day Ann Coulter or Billo or Sean Hannity would have if this stuff was true about a Democratic candidate:
In August 1981, Thompson, on First Amendment grounds, urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down an Illinois village’s ordinance designed to protect children from marijuana by requiring merchants to get a license to sell drug paraphernalia or pro-marijuana literature. His client was a trade association of merchants who sold smoking goods, novelty items and magazines.
The justices unanimously disagreed, upholding the ordinance.
Thompson also lost a federal appeals case involving two defendants in a major drug case. In his appeal, he derided a U.S. Customs officer as “inexperienced” and tried to challenge that officer’s right to search a boat on which 28,000 pounds of marijuana was found. The appellate judges disagreed, writing a detailed opinion supporting agent’s right to search the boat.
If this information came out about a Democratic candidate, you can be sure the SwiftBoat commericials would start coming fast and furiously. Therefore, as a public service to my fellow countrymen, the Right Wing Fire Breathers, I shall provide a rough draft of what a commercial against Fred Thompson would consist of: …
The proposed commercial is priceless.
READ ALL:
Here’s the story-only version of “Fred Thompson: Champion of Stoners and Crackheads.”
For some more fun — and I do mean fun! — check out the hilarious comments in the story/comment version: “Fred Thompson: Champion of Stoners and Crackheads.”
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THEN THERE’S THIS, via my friend Susan T:
The Fred File: Money and the Jeri Factor
from NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell
Sources close to the presumptive campaign tell NBC News that Fred Thompson’s fundraising is down “markedly.” One claimed it has “slowed down big-time.” The pace is described as a consequence of the delayed announcement to enter the race.
“The Friends of Fred, Inc.” will report to the IRS its revenue by July 31st. Sources reveal to NBC News that number will be in the range of about $3 million. Five million dollars had been the talked-about June goal. Sources describe an early burst of donations in June and say the summer fundraising has fallen off. While additional fundraisers are planned, sources say the scheduling of fundraisers was “frozen” for a time while the team was going through some internal strains.
The Jeri Factor
Some sources describe the role of the presumed candidate’s wife, Jeri, as vast and powerful. Sources say “she’s integrally involved in every decision” and that FredThompson has “set it up so everything goes through her.” Critically, that was cast as “running it like a congressional campaign” and from the “kitchen table.”
Sources also describe Jeri favorably as smart, and that her level of involvement could be an asset. However, they also claim she is “reluctant” to shift to the eventual front-stage role she would have to assume as the candidate’s spouse with her own events and public responsibilities. An interpretation of Jeri’s role was described as a “scattershot management style” that “lacks prioritization.”
At present, those close to the planning say Jeri is involved in hiring, salaries, schedule, office assignments at the two headquarters, and small details like the color of bumper stickers. Some sources defend her, adding that “it’s easy to say she’s controlling things.” …
by Ronald Scott
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