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“So he’s from the right wing branch of the whacko family instead of the left wing branch so frequently associated with Hollywood. An extreme ideologue is an extreme ideologue.”

No. I’m saying he’s not a Hollywood wacko at all. His main career had been law and politics, not arts and crafts. I happen to have agreed with the social security privatization issue. The whole idea of it was you would be allowed to invest a portion in only the exact same mutual funds program that all Federal civilian employees currently use. Why shouldn’t we be able to get a better return on our money, too? I’ll take a 10 – 12% return anytime.

Although the article omits it, it was welfare for illegal immigrants, not immigrants in general.

And decentralizing unconstitutional programs is bad?!?

…and efforts to privatize elements of Social Security. He supported legislation in the interest of free enterprise and opposed many regulatory and tax measures. He opposed growth in social-welfare programs, including expansions in Medicare and welfare for immigrants. He supported efforts to decentralize or disenfranchise unconstitutional government programs.â€?

So he’s from the right wing branch of the whacko family instead of the left wing branch so frequently associated with Hollywood. An extreme ideologue is an extreme ideologue.

From a column by Mark M. Alexander:

“After earning his J.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1967, Thompson had a private law practice and later served as an assistant U.S. attorney — making his mark weeding out corruption. After his prominent role as Republican counsel during Watergate, it was Thompson’s 1977 investigation that toppled the crooked administration of Tennessee Democrat Gov. Ray Blanton. In 1980, Thompson was tapped to serve as special counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and in 1982, special counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In 1985, the Blanton scandal was the subject of the film “Marie,” in which Thompson played himself — because the director could not find an actor who could capture Thompson’s power and determination. His success in that film led to his roles in more than 20 other big-screen hits including “No Way Out,” “The Hunt for Red October,” “Class Action,” “Cape Fear” and “In the Line of Fire.”

In 1993, Tennessee’s Republican leadership convinced Thompson to return to public service in a campaign bid to fill the unexpired Senate term of then Vice President Albert Gore. Fred then demonstrated his formidable skills on the campaign trail. Despite all the support Bill Clinton and Al Gore could muster for popular six-term Democrat Rep. Jim Cooper, Thompson won a landslide victory in 1994, garnering 61 percent of the vote to Cooper’s 39 percent — the largest victory margin in any statewide political contest in Tennessee history.

Thompson’s success in his first campaign for national office did not pass without substantial note from the Democrat National Committee. He won by an even wider margin in his 1996 re-election bid. Rest assured, the DNC fears a Thompson draft for the presidency.

Thompson’s record as a U.S. Senator from 1994 to 2003 shows that he was on the right side of every critical issue. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs from 1997 to 2001, he voted for national-debt reduction, the all-important balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, a presidential line-item veto to eliminate congressional pork and efforts to privatize elements of Social Security. He supported legislation in the interest of free enterprise and opposed many regulatory and tax measures. He opposed growth in social-welfare programs, including expansions in Medicare and welfare for immigrants. He supported efforts to decentralize or disenfranchise unconstitutional government programs.”

In fact, it’s hard to find many celebrity politicians on the Dem side with the exception of former politician Bill Bradly. Steve Largent? J.C. Watts?

Oh, what. IOKIFYAR.

Got it.