Liberals fear Fred Thompson!
In the comments on a previous post, reader Carl Vehse points out one of several attack articles on Fred Thompson that have appeared in the liberal media recently.
It seems that an item has appeared identifying Thompson's wife, Jeri, as a "trophy wife" (she's an experienced political media consultant formerly employed by Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson, a prominent Washington law firm, as well as by the Republican National Committee and the Senate Republican Conference).
Besides the obvious sexism of this cheap shot (the implication clearly being that young, attractive, amply-endowed women can't possibly have anything going for them but their cup size), this snide crack happens to be rather ridiculous in view of this woman's professional credentials. It's just one more example of the anxiety the Democrats and the liberal media are feeling about the prospect of facing the best communicator either party has nominated since Ronald Reagan in 2008.
The anxiety to get some dirt on Thompson borders on being funny. We've heard in the last week that back in Watergate days Thompson let the White House know that he planned to ask Alexander Butterfield about the recording system in the Nixon Oval Office (in criminal and civil trials, such revelations are mandatory- and this courtesy in no way compromised the impact of the information on the investigation), and that some pro-abortion groups are claiming that Thompson was hired to lobby the White House to drop the so-called "gag rule" preventing family planning clinics receiving government funds from pushing abortion (actually, it was one of his partners; at most, Thompson may have offered the kind of routine procedural assistance customary among fellow members of a lobbying or law firm. His involvement was minor enough that- interestingly- only the pro-abortion liberals even remember it).
By hook or by crook, by foul means or foul, the Left seems bound and determined to get all the dirt they can on Fred Thompson- or at least to besmirch his name with all the baseless innuendo possible . If he wins the nomination, expect the same kind of dirty, slander-ridden campaign the Democrats waged against President Bush in 2004.
I haven't seen any evidence of a parallel smear campaign against Rudy Giuliani (though MoveOn has admittedly run at least one anti-McCain TV commercial here in Iowa). The new Leftist obsession with smearing Fred Thompson is just more evidence that- especially with the ever-so-vulnerable Hillary Clinton as the Democrats' front runner- the Left is terrified that Thompson will be the Republican nominee in 2008.
As well it should be.
It seems that an item has appeared identifying Thompson's wife, Jeri, as a "trophy wife" (she's an experienced political media consultant formerly employed by Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, and McPherson, a prominent Washington law firm, as well as by the Republican National Committee and the Senate Republican Conference).
Besides the obvious sexism of this cheap shot (the implication clearly being that young, attractive, amply-endowed women can't possibly have anything going for them but their cup size), this snide crack happens to be rather ridiculous in view of this woman's professional credentials. It's just one more example of the anxiety the Democrats and the liberal media are feeling about the prospect of facing the best communicator either party has nominated since Ronald Reagan in 2008.
The anxiety to get some dirt on Thompson borders on being funny. We've heard in the last week that back in Watergate days Thompson let the White House know that he planned to ask Alexander Butterfield about the recording system in the Nixon Oval Office (in criminal and civil trials, such revelations are mandatory- and this courtesy in no way compromised the impact of the information on the investigation), and that some pro-abortion groups are claiming that Thompson was hired to lobby the White House to drop the so-called "gag rule" preventing family planning clinics receiving government funds from pushing abortion (actually, it was one of his partners; at most, Thompson may have offered the kind of routine procedural assistance customary among fellow members of a lobbying or law firm. His involvement was minor enough that- interestingly- only the pro-abortion liberals even remember it).
By hook or by crook, by foul means or foul, the Left seems bound and determined to get all the dirt they can on Fred Thompson- or at least to besmirch his name with all the baseless innuendo possible . If he wins the nomination, expect the same kind of dirty, slander-ridden campaign the Democrats waged against President Bush in 2004.
I haven't seen any evidence of a parallel smear campaign against Rudy Giuliani (though MoveOn has admittedly run at least one anti-McCain TV commercial here in Iowa). The new Leftist obsession with smearing Fred Thompson is just more evidence that- especially with the ever-so-vulnerable Hillary Clinton as the Democrats' front runner- the Left is terrified that Thompson will be the Republican nominee in 2008.
As well it should be.
Comments
Now THAT's a trophy wife!! (Although I understand that she, too, is a pretty sharp cookie!)