2 posts tagged “fred dalton thompson”

Now that Fred Thompson is hinting at a bid for the presidency, and the Al Gore rumours won’t go away, I am getting the impression that a movie or TV career is necessary for the position. Thompson stands a good chance as he has actually played the President on film, which even Ronald Reagan didn’t do. In which case, if Art. II, s. 1 of the Constitution is ever changed, the Governator will make a bid. You need to change the age and 14-year residency requirement as well as that birth thing. And I will run. I have more hair, anyway, and in such circumstances, only Dwight D. Eisenhower could have beaten me.

When I think about my career with fingers in different pies, it’s not that unusual. Sen. Fred Dalton Thompson of Tennessee, whom Americans will know from Law & Order and whom most of us foreigners know from Die Hard 2, could hold down representing his state and plain representin’ on TV and film.
   I kept saying that Republicans might find a candidate who is well known. Could it be Mr Thompson? More people have seen him than Sen. McCain. Only former mayor Giuliani has a higher profile.
   But all these guys do not have much hair.
   Americans always have trouble voting for someone who has less hair than his opponent, whether for a presidential, senatorial or congressional race (there are some exceptions, of course). You can be black or female, just not bald.
   “Hat tip” to Dox² for the video below.