Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson made it semi-official tonight as he informally announced his Republican presidential campaign on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
I think that it is about time.
The race needs a little bit of Hollywood, the right kind of Hollywood with a mix of being in Washington and yet not part of Washington. Enter, Mr. Thompson.
Yea, Mr. Thompson will be compared to the man, former President Ronald Reagan, but Mr. Thompson will prove to be his own man.
An aside, the DDBMSM is already comparing Mr. Thompson to Mr. Reagan. Mr. Thompson is being accused of being lazy. Now, where have we heard that before about another actor who ran for high office? Oh, yes, Mr. Reagan himself. While Mr. Reagan was wilying away eight years in office, he defiantly remade tax policy and brought the former Soviet Union to it knees and was able to see it fall during the Bush 41 years. Yes, only a lazy Ronald Reagan could have done it!
Mr. Thompson, like all the other candidates, is not pure by any stretch of the imagination, but I think he will put the "We don't like any of the Republican candidates, can't there be more?" talk to rest. If Republican voters still do not like the choices, I guess we will have to dig Ronald Reagan out of the grave to satisfy those hold outs.
Now, Mr. Thompson will have to articulate the reasons he wants to be president and lay out the ideas that break him away from the rest of the pack.
So, I say it is about time and now the Republican race is shook up a bit and this diminishes the McCain candidacy even further.
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