What with all this talk about Fred Thompson as a possible candidate for president in 2008 I remembered that he was in The Hunt For Red October. This was Tom Clancy’s first book, the only one I read and it was pretty good; though I was only in 5th grade so I might have missed some of the finer points. Anywho Clancy’s main character Jack Ryan is the stalwart rugged individualist (the ideal of a Neo Con or so Neo Cons would imagine) who does the right thing, or something like that and so I figured I’d coin another term. And now I own it. So that means between there being “South Park Republicans” and “Log Cabin Republicans” and let’s face it, Libertarians the Right is actually pretty delineated (or maybe these are just terms to describe the same Hydra) Anyway I dub Fred a Jack Ryan Republican and if he gets serious about the race we’ll see what the hell that is.
It should be noted that I’m not talking about Jack Ryan that was 7 of 9’s ex-husband … not the sex club guy.