Is it possible that Fred Thompson is dumber than George Bush?

[originalpckelly]

Have the Republicans finally hit upon an even greater idiot?

[Mojambo]

1. Certainly just as lazy and given the age deterioration probably just as dumb. n/t

[Cameron27]

2. He might be!

It's a close call.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. No. He at least got into Law School.

Dim Son didn't.

[BuyingThyme]

4. It's just that he doesn't yet own an earpiece.

[AlCzervik]

5. He stammers a lot and seems very insecure.

[partylessinOhio]

29. So did Ronnie Ray-Gun!

[Blackhatjack]

6. Hard to say .... both are pretty low on the scale

[unpossibles]

7. I've wondered if Bush (and maybe the new front runners)

are chosen because they're dumb. Think about it: not only can they use the whole "goold old boy"/everyman meme, but then they also have a good patsy or proxy to take the fall and to exemplify "just how useless and incompetent government really is."

It kind of fits their goals, really. Why would they want to put someone competent in power who does things right if their whole platform involves smaller government?

Or it could be they're all just brain dead and cocky. I don't know.

[charlie]

25. They are

Reagan is The Greatest President of the Twentieth Century. They put Danny Quayle on the presidential track. Dubya has received coccooned protection and kneejerk assent like no other. Thomas is on the court. Miers was floated for the court. Brownie was in charge of FEMA. They have the lion's share of dumber than lint lugnuts in Congress. And on and on and on. It's pretty undeniable that pliant partisan idiots are the gold standard for the party mandarins.

[Horse with no Name]

31. or they have actors and failed businessman as their front men

while the real power brokers are behind the scenes. Reagan/Bush/Thompson are/were all remarkably vain AND arrogant.
Enough so that when someone asks "Why?" they simply can look them straight in the eye and say "Because I said so" and get away with it.

[Lex]

8. He apparently didn't know the Soviet Union was no more.

That's pretty eff'ing dumb and out of touch.

[originalpckelly]

11. I mean even Bush probably knew about that...

This is kind of scary.

[TomInTib]

9. Hah! Look what I posted one minute after your post.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3593920&mesg_id=3593920

"Oh sh--, he's dumb as hell. Fred Thompson," Nixon interjects. "Who is he? He won't say anything."

In another conversation some weeks later, Nixon and his advisers were still describing Thompson as not very smart but at least beginning to play ball.

"Our approach is now, we've got a pretty good rapport with Fred Thompson. He came through fine for us this morning," White House counsel Fred Buzhardt says on a tape from June 6.

"He isn't very smart, is he?" Nixon asks.

"Not extremely so, but --," Buzhardt says, interrupted by the president.

"But he's friendly," Nixon says.

"But he's, he's friendly," Buzhardt echoes.

"Good."

[Cleita]

10. It seems to work for them. First they thought they needed someone

dumb but articulate so they got Ronnie. Then they realized with GHW Bush, maybe articulate wasn't that important so they got dimson Bush in. Damn if he didn't do two terms unlike his dad, so I think they figure anyone smarter than a lamp post is smart enough, the perfect GOP candidate.

[Horse with no Name]

12. Not physiologically possible. n/t

[originalpckelly]

13. The Thompson unit seems to be defective and may have shipped without a processor.

[AlCzervik]

14. "the actors union counts----right?" oy.

[originalpckelly]

15. Yeah, that poor abused Fred Thompson.

:eyes:

[AlCzervik]

17. he's a dope, and this is one really unimpressive showing for him.

[originalpckelly]

20. Bet he dramatically drops in the polls after this.

Oi vey, he's terrible.

[AlCzervik]

26. indeed, his fund raising is going to be shit after today. i was snarfing during

the "No i'm more of a union man than my opponent" "Nu-huh, i am, i I'm pro union!"

Pro union busting that is.

[Horse with no Name]

36. I think he might just be the dumb jock

who can throw a football and simply thinks he just has to show up to school to pass.

[DrDan]

16. he is just that . . . dumber than dirt

I wish he would drop those notes and had to rely on his wits

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. I don't believe Bush is dumb

Quite the opposite in fact. You don't go to Harvard and Yale and come out dumb.

I believe his administration is incompetent. But they are not stupid.

Bush is evil, probably sociopathic. But he is not dumb.

Fred Thompson however, seems to be very stupid.

[originalpckelly]

22. *Cough* Grades purchased *Cough*

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. *cough* he still sat in a classroom and learned a few things *cough*

[Sequoia]

23. He got into Yale because of his dad.

He was just a C average student and only wanted to party. That makes him dumb in my book.

[proud2BlibKansan]

47. I realize that

But he went to two of the best universities in the country. Regardless of his grades, he had to absorb at least some knowledge.

[Sequoia]

51. Sure, how to pardy hardy!

[rodeodance]

34. Bushco et al. do NOT use the brain cells they have for the common good.

[proud2BlibKansan]

48. That is very true

[Junkdrawer]

45. Well then...looks like the Rove-ster has found his next client...

Quick, get Diebold on the phone...

[VP505]

19. I think

the problem with Gramps is that he has spent too many years memorizing and repeating what others have written and there are too many cob webs in his info processing hardware to think and speak originally.

[malaise]

21. LOL

Distinctly and that's fugging dumb :rofl:

[cadmium]

24. Dont say that. It will get him

more wingnut suppoort. The dummy vote is huge.

[originalpckelly]

27. I think he's deflated on contact like Obama did.

It's pretty odd how these people get built up and then don't meet expectations.

[cadmium]

42. Comparing Thompson and Obama

and by implication Bush is an insulting stretch. Obama is not going away win or lose in the primaries.

[DrDan]

28. well - I would not want to drink a beer with Fred . . .

[originalpckelly]

32. I know, you might spill the beans, and he might rat you out to the Ghost of Nixon Past.

:P

[WilliamPitt]

30. Richard Nixon certainly thought so...

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/10/nixon-on-thomps.html

In this May 1973 recording, he shared his concern with then-chief of staff Alexander Haig.

"He's talking to Fred Thompson. I said you're not --," Haig begins.

"Oh sh--, he's dumb as hell. Fred Thompson," Nixon interjects. "Who is he? He won't say anything."

In another conversation some weeks later, Nixon and his advisers were still describing Thompson as not very smart but at least beginning to play ball.

"Our approach is now, we've got a pretty good rapport with Fred Thompson. He came through fine for us this morning," White House counsel Fred Buzhardt says on a tape from June 6.

"He isn't very smart, is he?" Nixon asks.

"Not extremely so, but --," Buzhardt says, interrupted by the president.

"But he's friendly," Nixon says.

"But he's, he's friendly," Buzhardt echoes.

"Good."

[AlCzervik]

33. Nixon was right. Wow, i just said Nixon was right.

:wow:

[originalpckelly]

35. Yeah, I know, that's how fucked we are.

Nixon was right is the equivalent of someone saying 2 is equal to 4.

[Lucinda]

37. No. Not even close. Lest we forget:

"I hear there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft." --presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas." --George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

"My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions." --George W. Bush, The Decider, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007

"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --George W. Bush, on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007

"We're also talking to different finance ministers about how we can send a message to the Iranian government that the free world is not going to tolerate the development of know-how in how to build a weapon, or at least gain the ability to make a weapon." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." --LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina

"Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction. Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit." --George W. Bush, addressing Australian Prime Minister John Howard at the APEC Summit, Sept. 7, 207

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." --Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004


"You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way." --George W. Bush, Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4, 2007

"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that." --George W. Bush, on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007

"Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that." --George W. Bush, on the immigration reform bill, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2007


and many, many more.....

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm

[Bitwit1234]

38. Oh good campaigning idea

Come one republican come all to the campaign rally tonight. Features

BUSH AND THOMPSON......also know as

DUMB AND DUMBER...

[spanone]

39. what a cruel, mean thing to say

:sarcasm:

[book_worm]

40. Yeah, but Tweety will just say he's the kind of guy a real guy wants to have a beer with

[mwb970]

41. They are both pretty bad.

I assume you have to have some level of general alertness to be an actor on a successful TV show. But whatever that takes may or may not apply to the presidency. In any case, Fred has revealed himself as physically and intellectually lazy. At least Bush is fit!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

43. Frederick of Hollywood doesn't have to be smart - his good looks get him by in life

What a looker! Almost as good-looking as Giuliani.

[Solar_Power]

44. People will vote for the "dumb" candidate

as they can associate more with an average guy than an elite geek

Maybe it's part of Rove's playbook

[City Lights]

49. I heard someone on MSNBC tonight use the "f" word to describe him.

folksy

:puke:

[hootinholler]

50. Well if he hires Cheney to find a VP, then we'll know for sure.

:rofl:

-Hoot