What if McCain Chooses Fred Thompson for VP?
Posted on February 6, 2008
I ask the question because it isn’t out of the question. They are good friends with a history. It would be a smart move on the Maverick’s part to stilt up his lacking on conservative credentials. Could Thompson serve as the conservative concience? The ideological gravitas? Even…power behind the throne? How would the conservative base/blogosphere react?
Serious thought from Scott Ott:
Bring Fred Thompson on as vice president to serve as the Constitutional conscience of the administration — an ideological gravitas behemoth — who can do for President McCain what Dick Cheney has done for President Bush on foreign policy. Behind the scenes, Vice President Thompson offers President McCain private counsel, guided by our Founding Fathers, without drawing attention to himself. Mr. Thompson seems eminently qualified for such a role, eschewing publicity and advancing the cause which impelled him to mount his own White House bid.
But seriously…it is a possibility. Would it alter any factor on you pulling the lever for McCain?
More thoughts here
Another option: JC Watts
Meanwhile: Bush rules!
Hat tip: Reynolds
More VP speculation at Hot Air
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It would be brilliant, and a winning strategy.
That would do a lot for his campaign and help cure me of my political depression (a little bit).
Would McCain pick someone that was a threat to him. Would Fred be willing to be nothing but a poster boy for John? Also add the figures. Fred an old 65, John an old 71 = an old 136 .
The young voters that are coming out in hordes if you believe the MSM would be really excited about two grumpy old men.
Good point. It might not be a ticket that could beat Obama. However, I’m curious as to how the conservative base/blogosphere would react. Would they swallow McCain based on the fact that someone they loved could be the power behind the throne?
I just read the title of this post to my husband, and his response? “I’d pray for McCain’s health to fail quickly!”
How rude of him! Heh. no no no not nice!
Two old guys on the same ballot, huh?
Wow.
Let’s switch gears for a second and imagine if the oldest president were running with the 4th oldest president. Could that pair ever get elected?
Depends on whether America wants “change” or “experience” doesn’t it?
Or is it “moderate” or “principle”?
Yawn.
two cancerous old farts.
it would lose BIGTIME.
i’d vote PRESENT.
jim demint. jeff sessions. cornyn. inhofe.
or romney.
old farts - NOT bold!
It won’t happen, so I won’t have to reconsider my write-in strategy. That having been said, VPs are not deal-makers, but they are deal-breakers. The deal is already broken with McCain at the top of the ticket.
That sounds like pandering to me and would probably piss me off
Also add the figures. Fred an old 65, John an old 71 = an old 136.
In my youth, that 136 cumulative years would have been considered valuable experience.
Of course, in McCain’s case, we would have said that there is no fool like an old fool.
It sounds like the two-old-white guys-with-cancer ticket. That won’t fly.
McCain needs someone younger and a bit vigorous to counter the energy on the left.
That is ASSUMING he is the nominee. A lot can happen between now and July.
I DO NOT want one of our cities up in radioactive smoke, which is sure to happen if the Donks regain the White House. If McCain picks Fred, that will be the only winning move in my book.
McCain claims to be the only Repub who can win the election. If he’s the best they have, the GOP is going to be sidelined for the next 4 years at least because he sucks.
The fear I have isn’t that one of the Democrats is sure to be elected, because one is, but that that muslim Obama, the Kenyan Candidate, to paraphrase the movie title, will get elected.
If that happens, I seriously doubt the ability of our country to survive it. With Hillary it would be much like it was with Bill. The GOP hates him, maybe because he got more sex than them, it’s one I never figured out, but the reality is that we all did real well while he was president. We all had jobs and made good money. As soon as the GOP got back in we all lost our jobs or made less money.
I’m 70, and all my life, when we’ve had democrats in power we had prosperity, and when we had republicans in power we had war and recessions and lots of poverty. I don’t give a crap about politics but I do have a good memory and I know that I prefer prosperity to poverty.
McCain will bring more of the exact same misery and destruction of America that we have now and unfortunately so will that muslim Obama. You better pray that Hillary becomes the next president or it’s all our asses.
Rastaman
“The young voters that are coming out in hordes if you believe the MSM would be really excited about two grumpy old men.”
Absolutely right Eddy, Reliapudit & Anchoress; kids have no idea what it takes to gain the experience and qualifications for the highest office of the land. They treat this election as if it were an interactive movie in drooling about “fire-in-the-belly” and other such outrageous nonsense. They have no sense of patriotism nor American history to draw it from…It is pathetic and I’m surprised we’ve made it this long.
However, it’s a pleasing thought for me to anticipate when they reach the age of maturity to realize just how pathetically stupid they were when they thought they knew it all ( IF they do ) that their cringing helps me ignore their little prattlings. Yes, a pleasant thought indeed.
Hell of a question.
The “McFred†ticket would clinch it for me, even if I were to support another beforehand.
Rastaman, I, too, remember the Clinton years, and I wish I could forget some of them (note: during much of that era, I was a Democrat/Clinton supporter).
I was more and more aware of the “entitlement” mentality that surrounded me, and realized I no longer wanted any part of it, or the Liberal encouragement of it.
I became appalled at the stories I’d hear of the treatment of staff, the treatment of supporters, and (this is what really got me) the treatment of their Secret Service detail.
And sex in The Oval Office with an intern?? Give me a break.
I began to question my decision of who I supported.
Let me assure you that, during the Billary years, we DID NOT “all [have] jobs and [make] good moneyâ€!
During that time, I made no more than 20K per year (in 1993, things got so bad that I slept in my car from time to time while my son stayed with my mother), my husband (married 1996)and I had no way of buying a home of our own. Since 2001, my income has more than tripled from what I made during most of the Clinton years (my husband, even more so). My husband and I now own two lake homes and don’t have to worry about driving cheap, unreliable cars. We’re not wealthy, but we certainly are able to get what we need without hardship.
The statement, “As soon as the GOP got back in we all lost our jobs or made less money†is most certainly NOT a true one.
It can be argued (and has been heatedly) that part of the prosperity you give the Democrats credit for is a false sense of prosperity. The numbers are inflated. The very social programs Liberals love so much encourage people to live on welfare and remove ones sense of personal responsibility and self-esteem (please note: living off the public dime was never an option for me). People FEEL they are doing better when, in reality, they are taking advantage of others (yours and my) hard work. As a DEMOCRAT friend of mine put it the other day, “It’s easier to be a Democrat when you have no money†(I think she’s coming around).
Now, I ask you: If you were me, which party would YOU vote for?
It’s like I tell people, “I used to be a Democrat. I’m MUCH happier now!”
It won’t sway me as I am a social conservative and both Fred Thompson and John McCain lack social conservative credentials. They talk the talk but I have seen no real evidence they talk the talk. One of the things I really hold against McCain is that he most likely voted to confirm Gindsberg despite knowing she was pro-choice and therefor supported Roe v. Wade. Thompson was elected too late to have a roll in that debacle but his failure to be an active social conservative discourages me from backing him.
I am tired of the lackluster performance of Republicans on the social conservative front and it is time they put up or shut up.
Nope. I will still stay home in November if McCain is on the ticket.
Like I said in an earlier post, McCain is going to have to pick someone like a Gov. Like Rick Perry from Texas, or Alaska’s Gov.Sarah Palin. She’s awesome, and a hottie. But even if he picked her, I’m still doing a write in canidate.
Depending on my mood in Nov. it will either be Ron Paul, or Pat Buchanan.I will NEVER vote Party over my Beliefs.
Ron Paul? Not enough drugs or alcohol on the planet for me to cast THAT vote.
If The HildaBeast is the opposition, I will drag myself to the polls on my elbows in order to cast a vote against her (which is a write-in for Fred Thompson).
Won’t happen. McCain won’t ask and Fred would not accept. Just my opinion.
I think McCain is more likely to ask Rudy than Fred.
Kerwin: “It won’t sway me as I am a social conservative and both Fred Thompson…lack social conservative credentials.”
Ok, I’ve got to ask; Is this your first trip to the internet in the last 8 months? If so, do you know what a search is? If so, do you know what an official website is? If so, what specifically did you not find and why didn’t you ask someone who would know several months ago??
To “ihavewebfeet”, no doubt you do. Quack quack.
You “became appalled at the stories I’d hear of the treatment of staff, the treatment of supporters, and (this is what really got me) the treatment of their Secret Service detail.”
But 4 years of George Sr. and the huge recession (actually it was a depression) he plunged us into is of less importance, huh? And 8 years of George Jr. and the incredible mess, the massive debt, the oil war, the New Orleans disaster and on and on and ON! And you think “stories of mistreatment” and getting snitched off for a blow job matter MORE?
You’re a duck alright. With your head underwater. Bush’s massive spending and borrowing is taking us down again just like his dear old dad did, and it may be worse this time. But hey, you want more of the same, vote for McCain. A piece of advice though: Don’t put a McCain bumper sticker on your car because he’s going to end up being hated even worse than Bush if he gets in.
Rastaman
I have to agree with reliapundit on Sessions. He has been a staunch, unyielding conservative, and this would propel him into the national spotlight, possibly setting him up for 2012.
But, if McCain/Fred was the ticket, that would be cool, too. Anytime McCain wanted to do somthing dumb (which would probably be about every time the sun comes up in the east), Fred could just glare at him and set him straight.
“And you think “stories of mistreatment” and getting snitched off for a blow job matter MORE?”
“Snitched off” isn’t remotely close to lying under oath and lying directly to our faces. The economy was tanking well before Bush ever entered the office.
NO MATTER how many times you shake a rattle it will not change what actually happened.
Rastaman,
You make me laugh with your “duck” references (it’s so cute)!
My, how sensitive you got in response to my post. You liverals get so testy when folks point out the flakes in the gold-colored-plating on your “Gilded Couple”.
So many chances to take Bin Laden out in those eight years…
So many people that lost their jobs when the job market correct itself (remember when the dotcom bubble exploded and made that big ol’ nasty mess?)…
I’m sorry, but what did Bush have to do with Katrina? The debt is always higher in a time of war, and might I add that it wouldn’t have gotten so high if Billy-Boy had not decimated the military during his reign. And what’s this you say about us being in a DEPRESSION during Bush41? REALLY???? OMG, my Liberal Sensitivities must have been on the fritz, as I can’t recall a depression in my lifetime.
It’s sweet that you tried to counter what I said. I’m sure Billary would be proud at your efforts.
~ihwf
It would take a lot more then Fred to fix McCain. McCain has leaned left for so long they have to put a lift in his shoe.
McCain has attempted to compromise and corrupt every value worth standing for. He has been in the Democratic camp so often compromising and giving stuff away that he know longer has a clue what being a republican is. How this man who almost single handedly destroyed the republican party has become the standard barer amazes me.
McCain would need a whole cabinet of conservative advisor’s before he would even get back to center.
Maybe McCain IS the new Republican Party, and it’s us who are the outsiders.
A Conservative Party anyone?
Well, folks.
Unless Huckabee can pull some kind of fancy rabbit out of his hat, it appears that McCain will be the face of the Republican party for now.