Wait, wait, wait. . . .

I thought George Walker Bush was supposed to be The Next Reagan? Well, that didn’t work out, so they’re bringing in the Next Next Reagan, the only guy two-thirds of the Republican base does not (yet) despise, Fred Thompson. If this doesn’t work, perhaps FOX aught to air a new reality show entitled The Next Reagan. Does it bear mentioning that even Reagan wasn’t “The Reagan” every Conservative fauns over?

Thompson says he plans to run, wants to be 2008’s outsider - Nashville, Tennessee - Wednesday, 05/30/07 - Tennessean.com

Dissatisfaction among one-third of Republicans with the 2008 field has opened the door for the candidate whose folksy tone, actor’s ease before an audience and conservative credentials drew comparisons to Ronald Reagan at the annual Connecticut GOP dinner here. Thompson addressed the dinner last week to a sold-out audience.

{{Snip}} Great. “Folksie tone” gets you a spokesman for Quaker Oats or Die-uh-bet-us medication, not a president. It continues:

“I can’t remember exactly the point that I said, ‘I’m going to do this,’ ” Thompson says, his 6-foot, 6-inch frame sprawled comfortably across a couch in a hotel suite. “But when I did, the thing that occurred to me: ‘I’m going to tell people that I am thinking about it and see what kind of reaction I get to it.’ “His late start carries some problems but also “certain advantages,” he says. “Nobody has maxed out to me” in contributions, he notes, and using the Internet already “has allowed me to be in the hunt, so to speak, without spending a dime.”

I love that quote. Thomson “can’t remember” when he decided to run, but basically said, “Well, shit! I could wipe my ass on a web-cam and do better than McCain! Martha! Hand me my overalls! And have the boy bring the pickup truck around!”

But let me get right to the point, here. Can we please stop hearing about “Liberal Hollywood,” now? Of the two major political parties in the United States of America, only one has ever had a Hollywood actor for president. Only one is the party of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And now, that same party has once again turned in desperation to it’s chief ally in political bullshit: Hollywood.

All Democrats have is Sonny Bono. OK, bad example. . But you get my point.

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