Conneticut GOP to Fred Thompson: Run, Fred, Run!

by John Gizzi: If there were any lingering worries that it is too late for Fred Thompson to jump into the Republican presidential race, they appeared to be assuaged last night (05/24) by Republican activists in a state widely considered to be a hopeless cause for the conservative Tennessean. As the guest speaker at the Connecticut GOP’s Prescott Bush dinner here at the Stamford Sheraton Hotel, television actor and former Tennessee Sen. Thompson wowed the standing-room-only crowd with his calls for U.S. success in Iraq (“We’re not about surrender or retreat.”) . . . “He drew shouts of ‘Run, Fred, Run!” and a bigger ovation than the governor [liberal Republican Jodi Rell, who won a full term last fall in a landslide],” . . . “that -- and the fact that this dinner drew 200 more paying guests than the one in ’06 -- should tell you something.” . . . [Read More] See also:Fred Thompson Raps 'Open Border' Immigration

A different job' for Fred Thompson? - "All right, let's get the announcement out of the way," he told the crowd in Stamford. "'Law and Order' will return for an 18th season."A woman in the back yelled, "But we need you in a different job!" Thompson smiled and said, "Can you speak a little louder?"

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