June 19, 2007
Thompson & Thatcher
It appears that former Senator F.D. Thompson (R-TN) is is in the UK for a bit of foreign policy work which includes a meeting with Baroness Thatcher. The topic of his speech is, "Strengthening the Transatlantic Alliance" and will be/has been delivered to the Policy Exchange, a think tank that Wikipedia defines as "centre right".1
Your correspondent is intrigued.
Given that I can look up on a bookshelf and see three or four hardcover books written by Baroness Thatcher---and two of which have been read---I would consider myself at least favorably inclined to the old Iron Lady. Although she and I would probably differ on the nitty gritty of economic theories, I think that we would get along, and therefore anything favorable that she has to say about F.D. Thompson would be well received.
Since your correspondent remains a quasi-nostalgic Atlanticist, he considers cooperation between ourselves and the United Kingdom as a good thing. l'd like to read a transcript of the speech, but this thing may be a not-for-attribution event. A buddy of mine in law school said those things are not uncommon in politics, so go figure. If I do manage to run across a transcript, I'll provide it, along with miscellaneous commentary from me. In the interim, don't bother with the comments posted at the end of that Politico article. Between the Pauloids and the random unassociated ramblings of other commenters, it's a good way to induce either a frenzy of self-mutilation or catatonia, the latter not being the late Welsh band with Cerys Matthews.
The only thing F.D. Thompson needs to do now is figure out how to throw the Bush family and its hangers-on away, and I'd like him a lot more. It says something about the state of my dissatisfaction with our leading candidates that even with Thompson's close ties to the Bush effort, I'm still more in favor of him than I am the so-called 'Rudy McRomney'.
Meanwhile, I appear to have scooped the Llama Butchers. Your orgle is right here, son.
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1 Admittedly, that sort of language on Wikipedia could mean that their policies put them slightly to the right of Pol Pot or Mao Tse-tung, but it seems to be accurate.