Rejoice, Republicans: Divorced Hollywood Actor Will Be Your Nominee!
It seems like only yesterday when we were bemoaning the terrible non-Hollywood crop of not-that-tall Republican front-runners Rudy, Walnuts and L. Ron Romney. When, oh when would giant right-wing dreamboat Fred Thompson and his latest wife join the race?
According to BREAKING NEWS, the star of cop shows and old-people radio will join the race in exactly ... five weeks. Meet America's great white male hope, after the jump.
* Fred will declare on July 4, a holiday that's symbolically important to GOP primary voters.
* Showing his infamous hatred of Mormons, this news immediately put Thompson in third place and knocked Romney to fourth in the national polls.
* The campaign's COO will be Thomas J. Collamore, who in the past has successfully marketed such awful products as Philip Morris cigarettes and George H.W. Bush.
* The handlers must deal with several negatives: Thompson is notoriously lazy, has cancer and looks like a cartoon bear.
* Contributors to his campaign expect him to fiercely pretend to be against cheap labor from Mexico.
* Because he plays a "folksy" character, Fred's handlers have a prop pickup truck that they'll again rent for this campaign; Tennessee voters found the red truck a very effective prop when he ran for the Senate there!
Fred Thompson will run, advisers say [Politico]
Adding Thompson to the GOP Index [NY Sun]
Earlier: Fred Thompson Has Complete Control of Every GOP Primary Voter