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“On prosperity, I have a real novel approach, a real creative approach,” he [Thompson] said in Coralville the other night. “Let’s continue doing what works and quit doing what doesn’t work in this country. Tax cuts work.” ~The New York Times Maybe he was being ironic.  It wasn’t “creative” or “novel”–it was the tried and […]

“On prosperity, I have a real novel approach, a real creative approach,” he [Thompson] said in Coralville the other night. “Let’s continue doing what works and quit doing what doesn’t work in this country. Tax cuts work.” ~The New York Times

Maybe he was being ironic.  It wasn’t “creative” or “novel”–it was the tried and true methods of yore!  Good one, Fred!  It was probably hard for the audience to tell, since half of them must have been asleep by this point.  Read the whole article to get a sense of the “magic” of Fred Thompson on the stump.

Thompson wasn’t done:

Turning to what he said would be a second priority of a Thompson administration, he said, “High, high, high on our lists of concerns for anybody who would think about becoming president of the United States is the security of this nation.”

One might even call it a “top” priority.  There are multiple lists of concerns?

As an early anti-Thompson blogger, I have to say I never expected Thompson to be so very dull in his campaigning.  I assumed that he would argue for policies I didn’t support, and he was probably going to reprise his preposterous role as the good ol’ boy who is just one of the guys, but I don’t think anyone fully realised that the “laziness” rap against him would mean that he was also going to be so unenthusiastic about his campaign while he is speaking to a crowd.  The Thompson boom never made any sense.  It hadn’t occurred to me that it would all unravel this quickly.

Also, he seems to be in denial about how poorly he has done since announcing:

He bristled at the notion that his campaign had had anything but a strong beginning. And he suggested that “the pundits” were holding him to a tougher standard than his opponents because, he said, he was defying the rules by getting in so late.

Yes, those lousy pundits!  How dare they expect candidates to know things and be able to speak about them!  They even want to see policy positions–who do they think they are?  It’s an outrage, and we shouldn’t have to put up with this uncivilised pestering of our noble candidates any longer.

Maybe he really does think he’s the new Reagan, and we’re living in the ’80s again:

Still, Mr. Thompson at times seems to be looking for his sea legs. In an interview with Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa on Wednesday, in talking about Iran, he referred to the “Soviet Union and China.”

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