It’s definitely worked for him up to now — building anticipation to the point that he can plausibly claim that "the people" (some of them, anyway) are asking him to run — but I wonder how much longer Fred
Thompson can be coy.
It’s one thing to be everybody’s favorite outsider, doing the occasional offbeat video, dropping hints,
playing with blogs, in between your TV and radio gigs. But once you’re done teasing and said yes, don’t you have to actually appear in public now and then?
I was struck by this when I checked the AP wire for fresh photos — mug shots, at least — to go with my two recent posts. Nada, except for a really lame, poorly lit picture from a week ago. It was worse the last time I mentioned him, when I actually went with a file mug.
The man simply has not been out where he can be photographed.
The advantage of playing hard-to-get is that when you do show your face, everybody goes nuts taking your picture, to the point that there are roughly as many shots of Thompson on the wire over the last couple of weeks as there are of the other candidates. But while the shots of McCain, Giuliani, Romney are from here, there and everywhere as they stump for votes, all of the recent live photos of Thompson are from a single event he attended a week ago — the Prescott Bush Awards Dinner in Stamford, Conn. (That’s where the one above at right came from.)
Other than that, we have a file of him and his wife (no, that’s not his daughter or granddaughter, but our potential future First Babe at left) from over a month ago, a show-biz file shot from 2003, and a really nice picture of him in his Senate office — from 1996! Check it out below.
This has got to end soon — doesn’t it? This seems like a new kind of campaign to me, and maybe there are new rules.
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Considering Fred’s SECOND wife, perhaps the best campaign song for him would be Kanye West’s “Golddigger”…
From draftthompson08.blogspot.com:
“Jeri Kehn was a political media consultant at the Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson law firm in Washington, D.C. She also worked for the Senate Republican Conference and the Republican National Committee.”
Imagine a Republican National Convention next year with Mrs. Thompson sharing a stage with Stepford Wife Laura Bush…
When Fred’s Presidential campaign goes south he can star in Viagra commercials.
I’m betting that it wasn’t just an oversight that the DraftThompson08 blog didn’t give either Fred’s age or his wife’s.
Do you think he would dig into poor ol’ Bob Dole’s gravy train like that? E.D. was HIS thing…
In a poll just released, 40-percent of republicans in SC want Thompson to run. So you’re right. It’s working.
But I think people want his on-screen persona to run. I don’t think the real Fred Thompson will go very far.
Brad, well, if women were buying the Viagra for their husbands maybe Bob would be kept on. After all, many women might be able to picture themselves as Liddy Dole.
Since men are the market, they’d like to think that the little pill would make their sex partners look as young and hot as Jeri Thompson.
Bob’s gone like– well, yesterday’s newspaper.
Women are not, are fairly portrayed in the media
Vanity is not a valid reason for cosmetic plastic surgery