So Many Republican Hypocrites, So Little Time

June 1, 2007 | SEND TO A FRIEND | GET EARLY NOTICE OF THE HOTW

Fred Thompson

Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.

Well, the Republicans appear to have found their latest "Great White Dope" to field for president: Fred Thompson.

Thompson may have been a senator and Republican counsel to the Watergate investigation, but his real asset to the GOP is that he's an actor.

Ronald Reagan taught the GOP what a B-actor can do for playing the part of a candidate and then acting the role of president for 8 years. Then they got Arnie elected in California, even though his claim to fame was a movie role called "The Terminator" and his sexual harassment of women. Come to mention it, he also starred in a film that could be the Republican motto of sorts: "True Lies."

So given a field of flawed candidates for the presidency, the fixers and money men behind the GOP one-party rule machine have made a casting call to -- Gasp! -- Hollywood. They want that "Law and Order" guy to come to the rescue.

Thompson has his "common man" PR stunts down to a science, including a made for press photo-op "red pickup truck." This is a guy who favors limos and a young second wife more than 20 years his junior. Just like Newt's third wife.

In fact, the GOP field is so crowded with divorced men (Giuliani is on his third), they could form an alimony club.

A short time ago, Thompson took a cue from Bill O'Reilly and started to beat up on Michael Moore for going to Cuba. In response, "Moore, seizing on a detail from a story in The Weekly Standard last month -- that Thompson's office features many boxes of Montecristo cigars -- wrote a letter to Thompson suggesting the former senator is a hypocrite for liking to smoke Cubans [which are illegal to import or possess in the U.S.]"

Thompson's shadow campaign then posted a YouTube attack on Moore, with Fred defiantly "chomping" on a cigar. Of course, Thompson didn't explain the little issue of breaking the law by buying and smoking Cuban cigars, nor did he address the hypocrisy of it all.

Hmmm…. isn't it kind of ironic that the Republicans are always lambasting Hollywood -- but when they need a candidate to save the day for them, they place a call to central casting?

Until next week, remember our motto: So many Republican hypocrites, so little time.

Catch up with you soon.