It looks like Fred Thompson is going to run for president in 2008, and I’m going to go ahead and call the election for him since he has everything a successful candidate could want. Besides being a cigar-chompin’ straight shooter with a folksy manner–which is probably enough by itself–he’s obviously the most qualified. One look at his resume makes that clear: Thompson has played the director of the CIA, a White House staffer, an admiral, an FBI agent, and a senator, even complimenting this role with an off-screen stint as a senator from Tenessee. Portraying the gruff DA Arthur Branch on all five Law and Order permutations Thompson has dispensed at least as much two-fisted justice in New York City as Rudy Giuliani. The only other candidate with credentials as strong as Thompson’s is probably John McCain, and have you seen this fossil on camera? Bor-ring. Can you imagine him saying something like “Well, my daddy always told me if you’re goin’ fishin’, be sure to bring yer bait” the way Fred Thompson could?
As for the Democrats, the frontrunners are Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama, the experience of both of whom amounts to a few years in the Senate, and is that going to cut it next to the wealth of Thompson’s accomplishments? I don’t think so. So now that that’s taken care of, we can thankfully skip all of the election hullaballoo.
This is all based on the assumption that President Bush won’t run again in 2008. I think he deserves a shot at a third term if FDR — American’s second greatest wartime president — got one.
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