Thompson's Last Stand

Former Senator Fred Thompson (R-Tennessee) provides an important lesson in effective campaign messaging.

Sen. Thompson is relying on a strong showing in South Carolina to propel his candidacy to the White House. CNN reported this afternoon that the Thompson campaign is joking about South Carolina as "Custer's last stand."

Of course, General Armstrong Custer was defeated and killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Apparently, Sen. Thompson didn't learn anything from the opening scene in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Sen. Thompson either doesn't know history, doesn't want to stick around in the race, or both. (To be fair, Sen. Thompson has a history of remembering the facts wrong, or not at all.)

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Freddy Cheeseball is a loser. NH is his last hurrah and then he's gone.

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rjsnj on January 7, 2008 at 06:57 PM

You forgot one. In a speech on May 15, 2007 Thompson claimed that the framers of the constitution were extending protection only to religion from the influences of government and NOT to the state to be protected from religion. James Madison, the author of the Bill of Rights, said that the separation of church and state "is necessary to the purity of both." In so doing, he clarified that he intended EQUAL protection to both from the other. Freddie is nothing but a toadie!

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marymac_memphis on January 7, 2008 at 07:04 PM

Posted by Doo-Bee-Doo-Doo-Bee on January 7, 2008 at 07:02 PM

you mean Ted Kennedy

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the_great_burdman on January 8, 2008 at 01:11 AM

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