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In the Land of the Blind, Fred Thompson is King not raising any money
To think he’s a moron is to misunderstand his genius.
Following up our earlier post on Fred Thompson’s new, improved and announced presidential bid, we have a couple of items from today’s papers about how our man Fred is doing. Summing up: for a guy who waited until all his hype was gone to get staff together, than fire most of that staff, then ceded the opportunity to frame his candidacy to his opponents he’s doing just perfectly fine and is in no way worried about the fact that one of his major donors is a criminal and also Hollywood has no interest in his candidacy at all.
On the former point, Fred accepted almost $14,000 from a family who ran a drug company as it was defrauding medicaid out of millions of dollars. Politico reports:
The company, King Pharmaceuticals, paid $124 million in 2005 to settle with the Justice Department and 49 states, which had alleged the company overcharged Medicaid and other government health programs for drugs from 1994 through 2002.
He and his entire family have donated the max to Fredo’s bid. Of course, Fred’s not about to give the money back, either because, you know, he doesn’t have that much to begin with.
Secondly, we have to admire the time Fred spent out Hollywood nurturing the relationships that will surely fuel his big to the White Hou – oh, wait. Yeah, sorry, we got that totally wrong. The LA Times reports:
The place that made the former Tennessee senator rich as an actor cannot be counted on to pour cash into his presidential run, especially if he’s going around bashing gay marriage and Roe vs. Wade. The minute he comes out strong against embryonic stem cell research — a fervent Hollywood cause — he’ll be banished from every cocktail party north of Sunset Boulevard.
“You’re asking me if people here will support Fred Thompson?” said Donna Bojarsky, a longtime industry political consultant. “How do I put it? No. No. And no.”
It seems odd that the industry in which Fred has worked for the past 10 years would give him the cold shoulder. Do you suppose that means that maybe Fred had no previous plans to run for president? Do you think maybe that means he’s totally winging it? Surely not.
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Sources:
Fred donors’ firm tied to Medicaid scandal Politico
One industry won’t back Fred Thompson Los Angeles Times
King Pharmaceuticals
