{"id":4141,"date":"2007-12-19T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/thompson-energetic-not-so-much.html"},"modified":"2007-12-19T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T17:23:00","slug":"thompson-energetic-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/thompson-energetic-not-so-much.html","title":{"rendered":"Thompson energetic? Not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, since I noted <a href=\"http:\/\/reformedchicksblabbing.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/thompson-i-consider-good-gun-control-as.html\">the good<\/a> I better note the bad. Thompson wasn&#8217;t so energetic today according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1207\/7474.html\"> Politico<\/a>.<br \/>\nAbout the silly hat rule:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inside, Thompson shook a few hands &#8211; there were only about 15 people there &#8211; and then Chief Dan McKenzie handed Thompson the chief&#8217;s fire hat so Thompson could put it on.<br \/>\nThompson looked at it with a sour expression on his face.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a silly hat rule,&#8221; Thompson said.<br \/>\nIn point of fact, the &#8220;silly&#8221; hat was the one Chief McKenzie wore to fires and I am guessing none of the firefighters in attendance considered it particularly silly, but Thompson was not going to put it on. He just stood there holding it and staring at it.<br \/>\nTo save the moment, Jeri Thompson took the hat from her husband&#8217;s hands and put it on her head.<br \/>\n&#8220;You look cute,&#8221; Thompson said to her. She did. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um&#8230;if I were Thompson I wouldn&#8217;t play dress up either.  It&#8217;s one thing for a fire chief to wear his silly hat, it&#8217;s another thing for a politician to wear it. I bet Thompson is remembering some pictures that came back to haunt the candidate and made them an object of ridicule:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9hubYXH-8CA\/R2mUg1vRpMI\/AAAAAAAAAZw\/ZSy729SoO18\/s1600-h\/Michael_Dukakis_in_tank.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_9hubYXH-8CA\/R2mUg1vRpMI\/AAAAAAAAAZw\/ZSy729SoO18\/s320\/Michael_Dukakis_in_tank.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9hubYXH-8CA\/R2mX9FvRpNI\/AAAAAAAAAZ4\/-HesljzmgMc\/s1600-h\/john+kerry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9hubYXH-8CA\/R2mX9FvRpNI\/AAAAAAAAAZ4\/-HesljzmgMc\/s320\/john+kerry.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9hubYXH-8CA\/R2mY3FvRpOI\/AAAAAAAAAaA\/rgGN6Y0sv_Q\/s1600-h\/kerry+gun.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"https:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_9hubYXH-8CA\/R2mY3FvRpOI\/AAAAAAAAAaA\/rgGN6Y0sv_Q\/s320\/kerry+gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThompson clearly has a lot more wisdom that the reporters covering him.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Update<\/span>: I should have known not to trust the MSM, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/19\/politics\/fromtheroad\/entry3631775.shtml\">go check it out for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, since I noted the good I better note the bad. Thompson wasn&#8217;t so energetic today according to Politico. About the silly hat rule: Inside, Thompson shook a few hands &#8211; there were only about 15 people there &#8211; and then Chief Dan McKenzie handed Thompson the chief&#8217;s fire hat so Thompson could put it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13,14,71],"class_list":["post-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun","tag-fred-thompson","tag-politics","tag-presidential-election","tag-republicans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thompson energetic? 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