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Brodner's Person of the Day: Fred Thompson

—By Steve Brodner
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Fri July 20, 2007 12:00 AM PST
Fred Thompson, the Great Right Hope, turns out to be a little shaky on his Conservative bona fides. Back in the day ('74) when he was the GOP lawyer on the Senate Watergate Committee Nixon referred to him as "dumb as Hell". From the tapes: Nixon: "Oh shit, that kid." Haldeman: "Well we're stuck with him." So since when is that a disqualifier for the Republican nomination?
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      Submitted by billybob jackson (not verified) on December 17, 2007 - 9:16am.

      it looks like this dude needs to take a pooo

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