Sorta.
Dropping the penultimate boa of the longest political fan dance in memory, Right Enough Said Fred announced that he's...going to announce...on September 6th.
Thus theoretically bracketing the long Labor Day weekend with his Aqua Velveteen Rabbit Fredness.
Or something.
From the Boston Globe:
Thompson says he's definitely in the race
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff and James W. Pindell, Globe correspondent
Fred Thompson, the actor and former Tennessee senator whose flirtation with a presidential bid has frustrated some supporters, will file papers to officially enter the race next Thursday, his campaign manager told key backers this afternoon.
"Fred is definitely is going to make the race," campaign manager Bill Lacy told members of the Thompson campaign's national finance team in a conference call. "We are in this race to win."
Lacy said Thompson will also announce his campaign on a webcast next Thursday. After that he is expected to visit Iowa Sept. 7, New Hampshire on Sept. 8 and 9, and South Carolina after that. There will also be events Sept. 13-15 in Florida and Tennessee, Lacy said.
Thompson's national finance chairman Phil Martin said the campaign has raised over $6 million already, but that "September needs to be a big month" in raising campaign funds.
Thompson's entry in the race has been a foregone conclusion for weeks, but his refusal to definitively declare his candidacy had begun to irritate some backers who were concerned he had lost precious momentum. Nonetheless, in most national polls he is in second place among Republican hopefuls, trailing Rudy Giuliani and leading Mitt Romney.
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Watching a sleepy old guy take a year to strip down to his black socks, hernia truss and arm candy is not my idea of fun.
In fact, its straight up creepy.
Then again, I'm not in this guy's Party,
so what do I know from what makes the wingnut masses get up on their hind legs and throb with joy?
4 comments:
They's all creepy.
Here's the audio for Mr. Tappy Toes....
http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/audio-tape-of-craigs-arrest-released/20070827191209990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Fan dance :D
Crap, now I see a whole tap production number in a bathroom stall.... fan dancin' fools. Ugh.
:-)
Myrtle:
James Cagney, doin' "I'm a yankee-doodle-dandy" comes to mind. :o)
Or, as my Dad used to make fun of it:
(and VERY apropos of the situation)
"Yank my doodle, it's a dandy!"
:O)
First of all, I'm so over Craig. Sure it's good to see yet another hypocrite exposed and kicked to the curb, but my heart's just not in it anymore. That said, nothing has been going through my head for the last few days quite as much as the old SNL bathroom stall version of "Under the Boardwalk", which I can't even find a decent still of.
As to Fred and his timing, I read somewhere that he has carefully choreographed it so that he won't need to report his finances until quite a lot of the primaries are done. Nobody will really know whether he can raise money or not until it's too late. Cool.
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