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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Gwinnett Republicans back another actor for the White House
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fred Thompson, the actor who plays Arthur Branch on NBC’s “Law & Order, topped a list of Republican presidential wannabes at the Gwinnett GOP convention Saturday.
With 62 votes, Thompson bested every Republican who has formally entered the race or is considering running.
That includes former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (D-Ga.), who garnered 24 votes, and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who received 21 votes.
Thompson is an interesting choice. After all, he’s served as a CIA director, a naval rear admiral, an FBI agent and even the president of the United States — in the movies, that is, the Internet Movie Database reports.
He’s also been a U.S. senator, not just on celluloid, but in real life. Thompson’s acting career was bifurcated by one six-year term as a GOP senator from Tennessee.
Or maybe we’ve got that backward. Thompson, who’s 64, got into politics long before he was an actor. A real-life lawyer, Thompson served as minority counsel on the Watergate committee in 1973, according to a congressional biographical Web page.
Anyone wondering what kind of president Thompson would make might want to rent the HBO movie called “Last Best Chance,” a what-if flick about nuclear terrorism. In it, Thompson shows he can at least talk the talk.
“Watch this,” Thompson’s character says in the movie. “I don’t want us sitting on our butts if something’s about to happen.”
Well at least he didn’t say “bring it on.”
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