Good riddance to bad rednecks

Fred Thompson (yes that Fred Thompson of Law & Order: Which Franchise now?) has officially pulled out of the race for the Republican nomination for the race for the president of the United States. A lot of racing, and a lot of people looking out of breath already - Mike Puffabee not exempt from poor punnage here either.

Anyway I think it's great that people have realized that he's a turd. The self-styled 21st century Reagan was viewed in some polls as the most conservative of the Republican candidates, with Rudy Giuliani was being viewed as the most liberal (liberal as in one his policies being the construction of a fence between the US and Mexico) - quite the achievement when you consider that scale. His more constructive policies included:

- continuing US mission in Iraq as it is central to war on "Islamo-terrorism"
- greatly expanding the US military
- reducing social scurity benefits
- opposing national healthcare
- making English the official language of the US
- opposing mandatory higher fuel efficiency standards
- doing "more research to determine human impact on global warming" as it would be economically unfeasible for the US to adopt global warming restrictions

Quite the philanthropist. And the character actor. And the loser.

Goodbye Fred, enjoy relative obscurity...


P.S. OK I'll admit that I did add the Godfather 2 style shading on the campaign picture, but you can't deny that he's a total ringer for Count Vigo from Ghostbusters II: