Grandpa Fred Thompson Continues To Disappoint

5:14 pm EST October 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Fail, time and time again.

Thompson’s appearance last weekend at the annual conference hosted by Teddy Forstmann in Aspen was “embarrassing,” several attendees have told the Huffington Post, as he botched current events questions and suffered from verbal gaffes.

Amid a gathering of high-profile media, business, and government figures, Thompson made the strange claim that the Islamic group Hezbollah is in Afghanistan (it’s based and run out of Lebanon).

Asked whether he would carry over the people and policies of the Bush administration, the Tennessean offered a less than substantive reply: “I would keep the good things and let go of the bad things.”

And peppered by former Secretary of State Colin Powell as to why Thompson and other Republican frontrunners seem to be brushing off the African-American vote, the former senator “could not give a cogent answer,” a source told the Huffington Post.

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5 Responses to “Grandpa Fred Thompson Continues To Disappoint”

  1. OxyCon says:
    October 5, 2007 at 6:15 pm

    This “campaign” is Freddie’s swan song. Soon he will drop out of the race and no one will ever hear from him again until his obituary. He’s definately ready for greener pastures. The other Repub candidates aren’t taking him seriously. They don’t even mention his name. They know he’s in way over his head and that he’s ripe for retirement. The only one who doesn’t know it yet is Freddie himself. The fool thinks he’s still in his 40s, starting a family with a young lady and running for President. It’s going to be a sad day for Freddie when reality comes crashing down on him, He’s making a total ass out of himself out on the campaign trail.
    Nixon was right about one thing, Thompson is dumb as a box of rocks.

  2. C.S.Strowbridge says:
    October 5, 2007 at 6:39 pm

    He can’t win, but he can spoil it for Giuliani. Go Fred!

  3. thereisnorule6 says:
    October 5, 2007 at 8:05 pm

    sounds like the ideal candidate for the republican masses.

  4. Mark Adams says:
    October 6, 2007 at 1:28 am

    I may actually watch a GOP debate Tuesday, just for the shits and giggles. This will be a classic train wreck.

  5. duros62 says:
    October 6, 2007 at 10:41 am

    Wasn’t it just a couple of months ago the righties were hailing Fred! as the savior of the party?
    No one could have anticipated that he was a doddering old coot.

    He also said we shouldn’t count on the Soviet Union to help us in the war on terra.

    Hoo-kay, then.