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Gino, who would rather support a candidate who is "right" than actually support someone with a chance to win the presidency, has thrown his weight behind Ron Paul, after his first favorite, Tom Tancredo, (totally expectedly) evaporated into nothingness.

Well, putting aside the obvious damange this does to our own Presidential run, we here at Chez Kal are very excited about Fred Thompson's much delayed announcement.

For a kid who came politically of age in the late seventies and early eighties, Thompson provides an irresistable analaouge to the Great One. From the folksy way of speaking, to the sense that he's "right" on the issues but isn't going to beat you over the head about it (for all his right-wing cred Reagan was a once-divorced guy whose first chief of staff as governor was a homosexual and who hung around and counted as friends folks people in his home of Dixon would think were typical Hollywood liberals...), Thompson's our Second Coming.

He's even a (sometime, alleged) Actor. Although his roles always seem to be of Fred Dalton Thompson.


One of Gino commentor's notes that some of his back catalog could come back to hurt him. My initial thought was that if playing second fiddle to a chimp couldn't totally bury Reagan, how bad could being an FBI agent in an appalling family comedy (Baby's Day Out) or voicing a horse (Racing Stripes) be for Thompson?

Ah, but Reagan was in the pre-YouTube days. TV stations couldn't play "Bedtime for Bonzo" ad infinitum to poke fun at Reagan, if for no other reason than the FCC would've probably made the stations dig up some footage of Carter to satisfy the equal time rule, and nobody wanted to see more of Carter in 1980...


But YouTube has no such restrictions, and it's only a matter of time before some enterprising liberal puts together a mash of the worst of Fred Thompson, film star.


Fortunately for Thompson, so many of his roles have been of Fred playing, well, President Fred Thompson, and it shouldn't be long before his "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it" quote from the Hunt for Red October is layed to a techno beat and becomes the anthem of a new generation of college republicans...