Not A President
May 31st, 2007 at 6:31 pm by Susie
But he may one day play one on TV. Go read Lance Mannion on Fred Thompson. Here’s one tasty tidbit:
The Howard Finemans of the world have managed to separate cause from effect in their thinking about politics and in the process have learned to ignore effect entirely, so entirely that a President’s actual Presidency is irrelevant to trying to assess what he has done and what he might do. Again and again, they cover the image, and they judge the image by whether or not it wins the particular game at hand.
And it’s through “thinking” like this that Fred Thompson becomes a serious candidate for President of the United States.
Thompson can be a President because he projects the image of a President of the United States. That image earns him the right to the job because that image can win him the job, and winning the job is the job.
