Have you noticed the quality of GOP lies declining?

[WileEcoyote]

And it wasn't just the departure of Karl Rove leaving the White House staff that has made their dishonesty noticeably less professional.

Take Fred Thompson for instance, Please!:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070911/pl_bloomberg/a23dx3a8oufe

Republican presidential contender Fred Thompson, who has based his campaign on appealing to conservative voters, said he isn't a regular churchgoer and doesn't plan to speak about his religion on the stump.

Thompson, in his first campaign stop in South Carolina, told a crowd of about 500 Republicans yesterday that he gained his values from ``sitting around the kitchen table'' with his parents and ``the good Church of Christ.''

Talking to reporters later, Thompson, a former Tennessee senator, said his church attendance ``varies.''

``I attend church when I'm in Tennessee. I'm in McLean right now,'' he said referring to the Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., where he lives. ``I don't attend regularly when I'm up there.''

Thompson said he usually attends church when visiting his mother in Tennessee and isn't a member of any church in the Washington area.



Now I simply recognize Fred Thompson as an unprofessional liar and stooge.

In order for any GOP member to get a solid lock on the electorate he must appease the fundamentalist Christian Right. These are the water carriers and "get out the vote" type necessary to win major presidential elections for the republicans.

After a republican is elected he will largely disregard this gullible segment. They're only pawns anyway. Total lambs led to slaughter to be later discarded in favor of his real masters in the multi national corporations. However prior to the election he absolutely must win these sheep over. Even if it's only a subtle gesture or two.

Must be a real pain in the ass for the corporate string pullers to have to deal with the rightist Christian lunatics...

Anyway what any decent, liar of a speech writer SHOULD have told Thompson to do was to say that he "recently had a conversion experience and is devoting his life to God and the GOP".

It would have sold!

Granted the left would have painted this matter as the lie that it truly is, but Thompson won't get their votes anyway. So he should have immediately seen his local preacher, done a confession, mea culpa and had one of his benefactors in big business buy the local church a new building, retreat, pool, spa anything.

That's just how it works for the GOP.

In fact i oughta keep my mouth shut as it's still not too late for Thompson to do such a shameless thing.

What would stop him, a conscience? He's a republican. Doesn't have one!

[PatSeg]

1. What have you done?

Its out there now and his campaign manager is probably working on it right now! On second thought, that's okay. He's not that good an actor anyway.

[WileEcoyote]

2. Hee hee hee

Yeah old Fred sure is as dumb as rock. Just like Nixon said.

I really hope he (Thompson) gets the GOP nod. Then again it's either him or Guiliani anyway. Between the two we can expect a total meltdown of the GOP.

All of them must be a real disappointment to their corporate masters. And that should be scary: Corporate money will swing away from the GOP and even more to the Democratic Party. Corrupting it further.

We don't need that.

[PatSeg]

3. And ugly as a stick

They want a reincarnation of Reagan so badly, that any actor will do!

Hey, that corporate money has to go somewhere. Don't want them using it for their employees, do ya?

[WileEcoyote]

4. Right

You know I'm almost starting to appreciate Ronald Reagan a bit. I've already said that even Nixon (as evil as he was) was damn sure a lot more COMPETENT than Bush.

Really. If a politician is going to lie let him at least be a good one.

Now Hillary is a liar to a certain degree. Not a bad person, just cognizant of the fact that she must play the game between a stupid electorate and greedy corporate donors who'd paint her up as a street walking whore in the media if she dissed them totally.

But Thompson? I swear I think he's completely unelectable outside of Tennessee. And that leaves Guiliani who certainly isn't held in warm esteem by the (so-called) Christian right.

So that leaves Hillary or perhaps Edwards if he runs a tough campaign.

Probably the best thing the GOP could do would be to nominate Romney. he's the biggest back flipper on the team but he at least stumps well and appears intelligent and competent.

Hopefully they're not reading this...

But look for Romney to easily win New Hampshire where he's known well. That might almost make him a dangerous candidate.

My guess though is that all GOP contenders are gonna go through a total meltdown during the campaign. It could prove as easy of an election for the Dems as Clinton's re-election was in 1996. The GOP simply putting up a "throw away" candidate like "Viagra Dole".

[PatSeg]

5. Yeah, at least Reagan had SOMETHING going for him

This dolt has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Oh he did PLAY a president in a movie.

I don't know about Romney in NH. The New England states know him better than we do and don't appear to have a very high opinion of him. Kind of like Rudy in NY, where they know what a rotten mayor he really was. Romney does make an attractive candidate though, especially if a voter doesn't care about substance, character, or issues. Wait, that would be republican voters!

[rucky]

6. No matter who gets nominated...

Newt will be the VP, a freak to balance out this "Godless" bunch of freaks they're running.