Comments on: On The Upside, He Looks Less Like Skeletor Than Giuliani Does

By: richard

richard — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:08:45 +0000

brett at 52: thanks for the site! I think it’s going to be very useful.

w. kiernan at 57: wherever Thompson goes he should be accompanied by that doom-laden clang. Ideally just as he starts to talk. Have you noticed that the whole franchise, which is obsessed with sexual predation, is run by Dick Wolf?

By: W. Kiernan

W. Kiernan — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:16:16 +0000

I hate that fucking teevee show. Hate hate hate hate. Hate everything about it. I’ve seen maybe a dozen episodes of it, and at first I only disliked it somewhat but the degree that I hate it has grown and grown so I’ll be damned if I’ll ever watch a thirteenth. Even Angie Harmon, as conventionally pretty as she is, pisses me off now because I associate her with that awful series.

As for Thompson himself, that bag of hot air, I saw that cigar-smoking-and-smirking act of his where he bitched about Michael Moore’s Sicko, and all I could think was “Jesus, what an idiot.”

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:15:04 +0000

The whole media fawning over Republican Alpha Male posturing shows the deep rooted psychosexual kinks that many Republicans have for daddy/power trips. They’re pretty much getting on TV to talk about how they want to be dominated and spanked. It’s pretty unseemly.

By: Bruce Baugh

Bruce Baugh — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:46:04 +0000

Keegan is another 9/11 sanity casualty, alas. In recent years he’s been on about the Muslim peril and all in ways largely indistinguishable from any Bush or Blair flack. This doesn’t of course affect the real merits of his earlier works, it just means you should be careful in his recent writing.

By: Lee A. Arnold

Lee A. Arnold — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:53:44 +0000

From the looks of it, Thompson’s organization may have a Hollywood P.R. agent canny enough to avoid trashing Scarborough for his vile remark, by turning it instead into a humorous call to female Republican activists and getting a quote from Mosbacher no less, then planting it in the Murdoch Times.

Belle, I wouldn’t have thought Thompson “a lock for the Republican nomination,” as you write, but this is more deft than anything exhibited by their other candidates.

By: will u.

will u. — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:56:39 +0000

The eXile’s War Nerd is close enough..

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:04:42 +0000

45: Check out the War Historian. The short answer is "yes".

By: Basharov

Basharov — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:50:41 +0000

So I’m the only one who thought Serena was hot?

By: Lester Hunt

Lester Hunt — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:36:15 +0000

I don’t find Fred sexually attractive either. There, I’ve said it.

By: Rasselas

Rasselas — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:00:05 +0000

45: John Keegan seems conservative in the sense of “square” and Tory, but he’s always seemed sane. Perhaps that is a misimpression derived from the sympathy for the common (in both senses of the word) soldier that comes through The Face of Battle and The Mask of Command, despite the latter’s focus on the highest echelons.

By: CalDem

CalDem — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:20:01 +0000

thing is, DC is a strange place, and it seems like there are quite a few men and women running around there who think power/gravitas=looks. so they get easily confused and think the rest of us are as confused as they are.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:11:10 +0000

I’m not anxious to have sex with Fred Thompson myself, and I don’t think that sexual attractiveness in itself is a particularly meaningful predictor of how women or men will vote (though qualities related to or associated with it (eg, charisma, vitality) might be). That said, the record does show that many attractive and accomplished women have been sexually attracted to Fred Thompson, whatever Belle thinks of him. Why? I confess I don’t understand it, but I suppose that it should offer hope to many men.

By: Matt Kuzma

Matt Kuzma — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:49:03 +0000

Oh man, we’re not talking about mister “I’m not a politician but I play one in every movie or TV show ever”? I can picture the ads in a campaign betwee him and Obama now:

Fred Thompson or Barack Obama? Who’s the more American candidate?

By: richard

richard — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:20:02 +0000

Are there any military historians who are not far-right lunatics?

Just askin’

By: markg8

markg8 — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:26:41 +0000

Thompson’s wife may be an accomplished lawyer/lobbyist herself but at 40 she is 4 years younger than his daughter of a earlier shotgun marriage. Oh and she dresses like I Dream of Jeanie’s evil twin.

And c’mon Thompson is as phony as the rest of them. In one of his ABC op-eds he was lamenting how modern universities including his own Vandy teach all kinds of PC sounding classes but no military history anymore. Trying to buff up his culture war cred I guess. The only problem is a blogger (No More Mr. Nice Blog?) looked up Vanderbilt’s spring catalog and they have all kinds of military history courses available and that doesn’t even include ROTC classes.

You’d think he’d factcheck these things people stick in front of him to sign but he is a Republican, why should he expect anybody else is going to either?