How many of you heard about this? Senator Thompson, formerly known as actor Fred Dalton Thompson, announced his candidacy for POTUS. I don't care if he's GOP, if Fred Thompson peppers his presidential campaign with lines from some of his movie roles, I might get suckered.
For instance when asked about Iraq, he could say "This business is going to get out of control. It's going to get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it." (Hunt for Red October)
If someone asks him about dissension among candidates, he could reply "If you two wanna turn yourselves into a greasy spot out on a country road somewhere, go right ahead. I don't give a shit and I don't think anybody else does, but you two monkeys are not going to do it on my racetrack." (Days of Thunder)
When asked about terrorism: "What the hell is that supposed to mean? I know we're all dummies up here, McClane, but give us a little taste of your brilliant genius! What are we talking about, a hijacking..." (Die Hard 2)
I mean, this has so much potential! I love it when actors run for public office. I mean, if you told
someone 30 years ago that Gopher from the Love Boat was going to be a pretty good civil servant, what would you say? How about telling people 60 years ago that Ronald Reagan would be POTUS? They even made that a joke in Back to the Future.
Maybe it's that no-nonsense non regional Southern drawl of his. He doesn't come off as a bumpkin as Bush tends to with his accent and diction, he comes off as that ass-kicking grandfather that will be gentle with you until you put that foot out of line.
I seriously doubt I'd ever vote GOP in the next POTUS election, simply because the vast majority of the party platform go against my thinking, but if Thompson's platform speaks to me...as I told the Queen, I'll be sorely tempted. I doubt he'll get the GOP nomination though. But that speaks volumes about me as a pop culture junkie.
Note, this post was originally started as a comment over at "Did We Say That Out Loud." I felt it deserved more treatment, though.
We need a good actor for President.
ReplyDeleteThose movie lines were spot on. I don't know about Fred Thomson, but I do know that you should consider political speech writing as a career.
ReplyDelete