Recently Fred Thompson appeared on "Fox News On Sunday" hosted by Chris Wallace. Chris Wallace certainly pushed some of Thompson's button by showing two clips of conservatives negatively criticizing Thompson. The two critics were Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer, both FOX analysts. To their harsh criticism Thompson replied, "From Day One, they said I got in too late, I couldn't do it. ... wouldn't raise enough money, and that sort of thing. And that's their opinion. They're entitled to their opinion. But that doesn't seem to be shared by the cross section of American people. If you look at the national polls, you'll see that I'm running second and have been running second for a long time." It may seem like Thompson is attempting to justify the negative comments of the critics, but it could also be a retaliation against all those that say he isn't passionate of has no flare. While on the show Thompson accused the FOX network of being against him and claimed that FOX only highlights the negative aspects of his campaign, "For you to highlight nothing but the negative in terms of these polls, and then put on your own guys, who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn't do it, you know, kind of skews things a little bit." His appearance on this show is one of the few times that Thompson has shown an effervescent will to win the nomination.
This, however, is not the first time that Thompson goes on the attack. Recently Thompson attacked Mike Huckabee and his views on abortion. This once more shows an attempt by Thompson to show ardor and fight back the accusations that he is lazy and without spirit. Although Thompson attacked Huckabee, Huckabee quickly responded by accusing Thompson of being unclear about what his views on abortion are. Although Huckabee retaliated, Thompson is right in attempting to show passion and excitement, because he has dramatically lost popularity ever since he entered the race. Hopefully these demonstrations of energy and enthusiasm will serve him in increasing his popularity.
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Interestingly, Thompson continues to "go on the attack." I believe yesterday he also used the abortion issue to attack Mitt Romney, and then he attacked Rudy Guiliani on his inconsistent view on gun control. It seems to me like it's a little too much, blatantly attacking three candidates in the span of a couple days. I understand he's trying to "fight back the accusations that he is lazy and without spirit," but are there no other means of achieving this?
I agree with Brittan. If he needs to attack other candidates to show that he wants to actually win the presidency, then is he really cut out to be president? If elected, he won't be able to blame other people for his mistakes, or try to boost his ratings by attacking other people. Is this really the type of man that we want elected as president? It seems to me that he will not be able to stand under the pressure of being president and will break. Brittan is totally correct; he may be fighting accusations that he is "without spirit," but he is doing so in an unflattering manner that makes him seem like a hothead.
What I find amazing is that even though Fred is on the offensive, he still continues to be characterized as lazy. It's as if the expectations for him were so high before he entered the race that failing to meet them, the narrative of the campaign, as created by the press, is that he's just too laid back.
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