Mon
Apr 30 2007
01:14 pm
By: R. Neal
Fred Thompson v. Al Gore in 2008, with Gore winning by a slim margin if he can get 600 more votes in Florida or carry a cluster of rural/agricultural Midwest states.
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You just might get your wish...
It seems a Washington D.C. madam is about to name names...one senior Bush administration official has ALREADY fallen by the wayside...And she has a client list of 10,000
P.S. Has it struck anyone here besides me that when conservatives get caught in sex scandals the Republicans are very quiet?
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I heard the name Dick Morris
I heard the name Dick Morris floating around the Internets as part of that tell-all.
Bwah. Ha. Ha!!!
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Georgia's in Florida, dumbass!
My guess is Big Fred didn't
My guess is Big Fred didn't need paid escorts, considering his track record with the ladies (I believe Bean recounted a bit of that history in a prior thread).
From a Republican perspective, the Democrats offer some good choices for opponents. I'd take Fred v. the Divinity School dropout.