Fredheads

From CNN:

Since May, the former Tennessee senator has been “testing the waters” for a 2008 White House run, launching a campaign Web site and beginning to raise money. A senior adviser confirmed to CNN that the actor and former senator will officially launch his bid for the White House after Labor Day.

But that may not be soon enough for many of his supporters. The self-described “Fredheads” – who populate scores of unofficial Fred Thompson blogs, forums and draft Web sites – are ready to jump in and join him now.

“What’s the hold up?” wrote Keith Harper, who operates a forum called FredHeads.com out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Harper said he didn’t want to second-guess a politician’s sense of timing, but said he worries Thompson’s grassroots support could dwindle if he waits too long.

Fred Thompson may have been at one time, very long ago, a fantastic human being. He is now but a shill for various global business interests and but a shell of the man he may have once been. I know it, you know it and he knows it. Fredheads are dumb asses and when we’re done with him, his acting career will also be a victim.

Fredheads are the same dumb fucks who voted for Ross Perot. They’re not bright enough to deserve a vote. In fact, if you’ve put your hopes in Freddie, report to the nearest clinic for sterilization.

The sad thing is that on screen, radio and paper, Freddie looks great. It’s a very appealing image. But that’s all it is.

He supported the awful McCain-Feingold bill.

He was a lobbyist for a pro-abortion group, not that I care, but some do.

He took $750k from a British insurance company to lobby for asbestos reform.

From the Organization for Mitt Romney:

He’s not a governor and non-governors do not fair well in presidential elections. What has he managed other than a Senate office? The one thing he was in charge of during his time in the senate was poorly mismanaged:

True, he demonstrated no particular competence as a senator; indeed, he screwed up the one thing for which he is remembered in the senate: the alleged scandal of Bill Clinton selling state secrets to the Chinese.

Some say he’s lazy:

In his six years in the Senate, Thompson was the primary sponsor of only four pieces of legislation, none of any significance. “I worked for the music business for years when Fred Thompson was the senator from Tennessee,” Hilary Rosen, former chief lobbyist for the Recording Industry Association of America and now a Democratic strategist, said on MSNBC. “So I worked with him in his office fairly regularly, and I have to say, as nice a guy as he is, he is lazy. He was a lazy senator.”

“I’ve been friendly with Thompson for years,” Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund said on The Journal Editorial Report. In the Senate, Fund said, Thompson “had a reputation for being a little lazy.”

Even Thompson’s high school football coach, Garner Ezell, told the Nashville Tennessean, “He was smart, but he was lazy.”

Southern-fried Reagan, indeed:

Charismatic and down to earth, a baritone with an LBJ-like command of his large frame, Thompson was a natural leader in the Senate. Now some Republicans, underwhelmed with the current lineup of 2008 contenders, have latched onto him as something of a political messiah, a latter-day Ronald Reagan who can lead their party out of the wilderness. In the latest Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll, Thompson, who isn’t officially running yet, came in a close second behind the current leader, Rudy Giuliani—and beat everyone, including Giuliani, among self-described “religious right” voters. “Fred Thompson is a Southern-fried Reagan,” says the Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land. “He has the same appeal.”

Let me remind you: Anyone who comes to Jesus will fall for anything.

Dirt ain’t hard to find:

“Critics point out that Thompson’s aw-shucks, shit-kicker populism is more than a little bit phony. That he spent eighteen years as a registered Washington lobbyist, doing the bidding of such high-powered clients as General Electric and Westinghouse, pushing for the passage of the deregulatory legislation that led to the savings-and-loan crisis of the eighties.”