Fred Thompson: I don't want Obama's policies to succeed (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

Fred Thompson, a former GOP White House hopeful, said Wednesday that he doesn't want some of the president's policies to succeed.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Count former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson among the growing chorus of prominent Republicans who want President Obama's policies to fail.

Tuesday evening Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called pressure to support Obama's policies "political correctness run amok."

Thompson told CNN's John Roberts Wednesday that he agreed with some of his fellow Republicans who have said publicly they do not want the president's policies to be successful.

"I want his policies that I believe take us in the wrong direction to fail," Thompson told Roberts on CNN's American Morning.

"If he takes us down the road of tripling our national debt in ten years and making us vulnerable to higher interest rates and higher inflation, and things of that nature, I want all those policies not to succeed," he said.
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OK, I realize Fred Munster is irrelevant -- except to the extent that he embarrasses the GOP by saying what they all are thinking.

edit for typo

[elocs]

1. Yet they had no trouble swallowing the $3 trillion that will be spent on Iraq. n/t

[acmavm]

3. Of course not. They're still hoping to find them damn WMDs!

[bluestateguy]

2. Then you want America to fail.

What if someone had said that about Bush on 9/12/2001? That would effectively mean that we would be rooting for more terrorist attacks and for bin Laden to get away.

[ForrestGump]

4. That's right. Either with us or against us...

Send the unAmerican SOB to Gitmo before they close shop down there. Or Morocco.

[Bolo Boffin]

5. Don't anybody tell them the right way to say this!

Which is, of course, "I fear that this policies are going to fail America and I am working to put better policies into place."

But the Republicans should continue to call for that failure all they want. All it looks like is sour, bitter grapes.

[jobycom]

6. Why is it that Alex Jones gets treated like a nutjob for claiming the government is chemtrailing,

but Fred Thompson can say stupid stuff like "The Democrats are going to triple our debt" given the history of his party, and he gets taken seriously?

The Republicans spend more than the Democrats every single time. They create the need for higher taxes, every single time. To let a single one of them spout the nonsense that the Democrats are the big spenders is like giving a flat-earther equal time with a NASA scientist to debate the curvature of the planet. After W, no media outlet above Alex Jones should take anything they say as viable.

[tsuki]

17. Because John Roberts is too PARTISAN to report the news.

(Sorry read the wrong name. I am too partisan to read.)

[1badjedi]

7. Didn't he go back to doing tv shows?

He should stick to faking it.

[elocs]

10. I saw him last week on an episode of ABC's "Life on Mars". n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

15. Mars?

I figured he was from Uranus.

[JohnnyBoots]

16. Nope, he's just an asshole.

[hfojvt]

8. see I wanted Bush's policies to fail to become law

Once they passed, I was sure that tax cuts for the rich would hurt the country and the economy. I hoped I would be proven wrong about that pessimism, but unfortunately I never was.

One other difference, of course, is that some of Thompson's ilk, being rich and powerful, have some power to actually help the country fail, if they choose to exercise it.

I do agree with Freddie though, that tripling the national debt is not a good idea. That's why I am in favor of progressive tax increases.

[sharp_stick]

9. Well then Fred

why don't you try running for Preside... Ohhh sorry bout that I'd forgotten about that little episode in your life like most Americans.

[SpiralHawk]

11. Republicons really do HATE America

Pitiful and pathetic souls that they are.

[droidamus2]

12. Is this the real reason?

Is the real reason all these Republican/conservatives want Obama's programs to fail not so much that they think the programs will be bad for the country in the long run if they succeed but that it could very well be the end of the Republican party as we know it if they succeed. To put their ideology and desire for power above the needs of the American people as a whole should be all the reason anybody ever needs to vote against the Republicans. To say that they will criticize the current administration without putting out anything of their own except the same tripe they have spewed for the last 30 years shows that they just want to sit in the seats of power and don't really care if they do anything for anybody but themselves.

[AndyTiedye]

13. The Repiggies Think that Another Great Depression Will Bring Them Back Into Power

The last one sent them into the wilderness for 20 years,
but they own the media now, and that changes everything.

[City Lights]

14. Traitor!

Fuck off, fred!

[Warren DeMontague]

18. Why do we give a shit what some Hollywood Actor thinks about politics?

I thought Laura Ingraham told all those people to "Shut up", already, right?