Thompson Lazes His Way to Poor Fundraising Show
Fred Thompson will report an anemic $3 million raised in June, his first month of fundraising. This is far below his own (low) goal of $5 million, and, given the support from the financial networks of fellow Tennesseeans Lamar Alexander and Bill Frist, suggests that Thompson himself expended absolutely no effort towards raising money. This lack of effort, of course, is Thompson's characteristic behavior. It comes as no surprise from a man who earned the reputation as the laziest man in the United States Senate, whose own supporters say that his casualness and relative disinterest towards becoming President is a selling point
In a way, that makes sense. For people who think that the military and national security and terror and natural disaster crises America may face are relatively insignificant, and that he governs best who governs least, well, no person running is better suited to doing little or nothing as President. Remember, Fred Thompson answers the documented fact that he spent 18 years as a lobbyist by just saying he didn’t do any lobbying.
Note that he didn’t deny getting paid to be a lobbyist—just that he never actually did the job. I suspect his clients would all agree he wasn’t much of a lobbyist.
And his acting career is also laughable for his lack of effort and accomplishment; after a dubious career as a lawyer and government official, he has played, you guessed it, lawyers and government officials. He was the least hard-working man in show business.
