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Fred Thompson Stars In New Ad For Conservative Party's Hoffman
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The newest ad from Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special election, stars none other than former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN), a presidential candidate from the 2007/2008 Republican primaries.
"Big government, high taxes, deficits, broken promises -- America is in trouble," Thompson says. "So when your grandchildren ask you why you didn't do something, be able to tell them that you voted for Doug Hoffman."
Thompson had previously endorsed Hoffman, joining a long list of conservative Republicans rebelling against the party for picking a socially-liberal and union-friendly candidate, Republican state Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava. But actually starring in a TV ad is taking the right-wing uprising to a whole new level.
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Frank "The Tank"
October 26, 2009 11:10 PM
Grandpa, tell me a story!
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Stroszek
October 26, 2009 11:11 PM
Shorter Fred Thompson: "We're fucked anyway, might as well vote for the crazy guy."
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MNPundit
October 26, 2009 11:45 PM in reply to Stroszek
It does sound like he's assuming the "anti-America" (Democratic) agenda is going to triumph.
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Kuyleh
October 27, 2009 12:01 AM
Voting is important, but if all you did was vote for a Rethuglican....You'd be better off saying you did nothing.
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forked tongue
October 27, 2009 12:22 AM
Uh...is Fred growing a 'stache? DID he grow a 'stache? There's something about his upper lip there that isn't quite right--I mean, apart from being attached to The Bobblehead.
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Ethan
October 27, 2009 12:26 AM
Wait, so is Fred saying that if the country stays in the dumps, that you can say: "I voted for Doug Hoffman so don't say I didn't try." That's gotta be one of the most overblown statement I've ever heard in politics.
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forked tongue
October 27, 2009 12:29 AM
I watched again and I swear there's a mustache there. Has Fred been cast in Errol Flynn: The Retirement He Never Had?
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lousgirl84
October 27, 2009 10:45 AM in reply to forked tongue
Maybe his wife likes it!! LOL
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Jim H
October 27, 2009 1:37 AM
"Come home when the job is done"???? WTF?!?! Sounds like another non-exit strategy to me. When will the "job" ever be done?
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Overreach THIS!
October 27, 2009 5:08 AM in reply to Jim H
It's a good point. It will presumably be done when Palin is President, Bachmann is Chief Justice of S.Ct., Joe Wilson is Speaker of the House, and Beck is Senate Majority Leader. Absent that, ole Know-nothing Hoffman will need to keep the fight going.
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Hyla Brook
October 27, 2009 10:56 AM in reply to Jim H
Yeah, I like that one. Does it mean if Hoffman wins the election he'll quit after a number of terms? Does Thompson know that the biggest job of congressmen is constituent services - cutting through red tape, helping with Social Security or other government issues? That job is never done - & that's the job that often gets representatives re-elected.
McHugh brought in $$$$ for the Fort Drum army base - probably the biggest employer in the Watertown area. Would Hoffman's 'principles' keep him from getting stimulus money & pork for fort Drum?
Owens is talking jobs & help for dairy farmers - Thompson's talking about principles. You can't pay your mortgage with principles. This might end up being the best ad for Owens yet.
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Overreach THIS!
October 27, 2009 5:12 AM
The punch line is electing this wackaloon will "send a message to Washington."
This is why he endorsed Palin. She was going to "shake things up in Washington."
This is an appeal to the uneducated, I suppose. Washington needs to be shaken up, sent a message, so they'll stop doing all that bad stuff that they have down there.
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Gordon Sewer
October 27, 2009 8:54 AM
I wish I had a pencil-thin mustache
The D.A. Branch kind.
A pinstriped DC lobbyist jacket
And an autographed pic of an Alaskan so fine
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Steve LaBonne
October 27, 2009 9:03 AM
Gramps is a little confused about where those deficits came from.
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DownriverDem
October 27, 2009 9:24 AM
So has Fred left the Republican Party and joined the Conservative Party? Does this mean all the crazies are going to leave the Republican Pary now? We really need a strong 2 party system and if the grownups take back the Republican Party that would be very good for the nation.
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Minne sconsin
October 27, 2009 9:40 AM in reply to DownriverDem
I think the grownups are already long gone.
This is the result of the Gingrich/DeLay style of politics. The Republicans have gotten very good at tearing things down - at throwing bombs from the side. As for actually governing, not so much.
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Prof Wagstaff
October 27, 2009 9:27 AM
Come on Gramps, it's time for your nap.
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JZ
October 27, 2009 10:10 AM
Where were YOU when a year-long term as an inconsequential back-bencher who could have no impact whatsoever on the doings in Washington was decided? Huh?
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Matt Jones
October 27, 2009 12:51 PM
His statement isn't wrong, just incomplete. It should be:
"You voted for Hoffman, whose candidacy appealing to the lunatic fringe finally split the Republican party in half, leaving the arch-conservatives to go bark at trees in the wilderness."
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