{"id":625,"date":"2007-09-08T10:15:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/08\/wapos-colbert-king-thompsons-no-dc-outsider\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T16:19:39","slug":"wapos-colbert-king-thompsons-no-dc-outsider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"WaPo’s Colbert King; Thompson’s no DC outsider"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I wrote that the Leftist media has been busy digging up dirt on Fred Thompson in an effort to derail his campaign before it gets off the ground. I have one rule when it comes to voting – I don’t let the opposition tell me what’s wrong with my candidate or which candidate I should support.<\/p>\n

When John McCain was running in 2000, the media told me that he was a uniter, that his support crossed party lines – that made me suspicious. Sure enough, McCain started hammering the Bush taxcuts in South Carolina. I suspect that the media wanted McCain to win the primaries because he was the easier candidate for Gore to beat in the general election because of his involvement in the S&L scandal.<\/p>\n

This year, the media has chosen the least likely to win candidate, Ron Paul (oh-oh, here come the nutjobs), to label the most likely to draw voters from both parties. And since Thompson is the biggest threat to any Democrat candidate (seein’s how Clinton is awash in campaign scandals, Obama is a foreign policy babe-in-the-woods and Edwards is a Class A hypocrite), the Washington Post, in the person of Colbert King<\/a> has begun launching their attacks on Thompson’s Washington outsider personae;<\/p>\n

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Far be it from me to start trouble, but former Tennessee Republican senator Fred Thompson, the presidential candidate who portrays himself as a conservative outsider capable of reforming Washington, is playing down his kinship with this town. Thompson may campaign as a steadfast son of the South, but he is really one of us.<\/p>\n

In fact, no other White House hopeful, Republican or Democrat, can come close to matching Thompson’s insider credentials. He alone among the contenders has managed to reach the pinnacle of Washington influence: the presidency of the Federal City Council, a powerful, behind-the-scenes group comprising a who’s who of this city’s top business, professional and civic leaders. The Federal City Council is synonymous with the Washington establishment, and Thompson was its chosen leader from 2003 to 2005.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, far be it from anyone on the Washington Post to start trouble where there is none. That’s never happened before has it? Like the William Arkin incident a few months ago (he occasionally stops by here to see if I still don’t like him – I don’t Willy), or the Walter Reed “scandal”, ya know idiot stuff like that.<\/p>\n

King goes on to question Thompson’s down-home style;<\/p>\n

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No doubt, Thompson, a native of Sheffield, Ala., knows his way around the hills and valleys of the Bible Belt and Appalachia. But he’s also a man of McLean, the upscale Virginia community just across the Potomac.<\/p>\n

He may charm rural America with his drawl and “aw, shucks” manner, but we know better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do you “know better”, Colbert? Davy Crockett served in Congress for 12 non-consecutive years – are you going to question Davy Crockett’s “aw, shucks” manners, too? I haven’t heard the Leftist media question Al Gore’s “aw shucks” manners when he born and raised in a DC hotel room.<\/p>\n

Now, the most disingenuous part of King’s WaPo column;<\/p>\n

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Thompson should raise his hand if that mammoth federal institution, home to more than 200,000 workers and 22 agencies — the largest bureaucratic merger since the creation of Defense Department in 1947 — is ever asked, “Who’s your daddy?” Or at least he should admit to having had something to do with its birth.<\/p>\n

‘Tis true that Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman initially proposed creation of a Homeland Security Department shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. President Bush objected to the proposal. The idea nonetheless gained Democratic backing in the Lieberman-chaired Senate Government Operations Committee. Bush finally came around with a proposal of his own, but the Senate deadlocked. In 2002, with the Senate session drawing to a close, the homeland security bill was on life support.<\/p>\n

Enter, stage right: Fred Thompson and the GOP takeover of the Senate in the fall elections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mr. King, go back and check the WaPo editorials of the period – the Washington Post editorial board urged President Bush to make the Homeland Security Office a federal Agency, along with Democrats, to make operations available for Congressional oversight – in other words, so Congressional Democrats could waggle their fingers in the faces of more Bush appointees on camera. So they really shouldn’t lay the Homeland Security Department at Thompson’s feet – especially since he’s been out of the Senate since January 2003 and the Department was established in November 2002. I find it hard to believe that anyone could blame Thompson who served in the Senate two months (two holiday-heavy months) while the HSD was in operation.<\/p>\n

I’ll bet cash money that King has never pulled a lever for a Republican, nor probably, has any member of the Washington Post staff, so they should really concern themselves with their Democrat candidates, who seem mired in problems of their own making, and stop involving themselves, and embarrassingly so, in Republican politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago I wrote that the Leftist media has been busy digging up dirt … WaPo’s Colbert King; Thompson’s no DC outsider<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}