Thompson Campaign Uses Three-Year-Old As Prop

Over the weekend, Chase Martyn at the Iowa Independent caught this funny anecdote about the Fred Thompson campaign. Seems that his three-year-old daughter is being sent onto the stage at the 40-minute mark of his speeches...and he responds with a folksy "bless your heart" each time. Also from Bret Hayworth at the Sioux City Journal:

Forty minutes into the event, Thompson’s 3-year-old daughter, Hayden, ran onto the convention center stage. Some in the crowd let out a heartfelt ‘aawwww.’ Thompson told Hayden, "Bless your heart, I’ll be done in a second."

With this being a major event as Thompson kicked off his candidacy yesterday and today, there was a huge national press crew along. I heard that Thompson’s daughter had similarly come onto the stage near the end of both Iowa campaign stops yesterday...I interviewed a few people after the Thompson appearance for reactions to the speech, and one man brought up that he thought the daughter coming onto the stage was, well, staged.

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Another acting role for Fred? Should we be surprised that a Rep. would exploit their own child. What he doesn't realize is that it calls attention to his may-december marraige. Sometimes positives turn into negatives after people have a little time to analyze them.

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BillMiller08 on September 10, 2007 at 10:46 AM

I assume the child's stage mother has things well in hand.

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SandyH on September 10, 2007 at 12:23 PM

think this'll come back to bite him?

at some point the hype will end and they'll see Fred Thompson like he is, just another GOP party liner, who will spend big on the rich, cut funding on the poor, and keep troops in harm's way.

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JKAR on September 10, 2007 at 12:29 PM

He may not be a law and order guy, but he does play one on TV.

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StickerS on September 10, 2007 at 01:58 PM

It's no differant than Hillary Clinton using a fake Southern accent to impress and pander to black voters in Selma, Alabama.

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RushBabies on September 11, 2007 at 09:42 PM

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