[CD Hanks]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...y_11&printer=1

While in Colorado, Kerry made a quick stop in Aspen for a $500,000 fund-raiser at the home of Michael Goldberg, president of Miami-based airline leasing company Aerolease International. Kerry invited Aspen resident and writer Hunter S. Thompson to ride in his motorcade and brought three copies of Thompson's book about the 1972 presidential race, "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail" for autographs.

"Just to put your minds all at ease, I have four words for you that I know will relieve you greatly," Kerry told the fund-raiser. "How does this sound � Vice President Hunter Thompson."

[Spliffdaddy]

Oh yeah. I like that guy.


"You could spend hours poring over all the memorabilia on display in Thompson's house. The front room (red walls, red carpet) is full of mounted animal heads. There's a human skeleton in there. A four-foot-long pair of bolt cutters rests on a counter top; you expect locks to pop open out of respect when the thing comes near. "What are these for?" I asked when I first entered the house. "You don't want to know," came the answer."

A shade before two o'clock in the morning I saw my copy of Thompson's latest book, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, shot through with a .45 ("It's never too late to shoot guns," an assistant whispered to me). And I heard Thompson hold forth for three hours about the state of politics, journalism, and the American Dream.



Full interview>

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/graffiti/hunter.htm

[CD Hanks]

If somehow I could be promised that Kerry would die/get killed shortly after taking office, and that Thompson would be President, I know where my vote would go.

Just imagine how his debates would go:
You infantile whore kings! You've got this country circling the drain like the ****ing squat drops of a giant retardate in a Nixon mask!

(In case anyone is wondering, my political prioritization system goes like this:

Insanity > Republicans > Democrats)

[Spliffdaddy]

heh.

The pro-Kerry zealots are amazingly silent.

Thompson makes Dubya look like a timid peacenik.

[PacHead]

Never heard of the dude before.

"What are these for?" I asked when I first entered the house. "You don't want to know," came the answer."

[osiris]

Yes!

[voodoo]

OK I see the right wing nuts are chuckling to themselves. Would you care to explain the joke to the people outside your asylum?

Who is this Hunter Thomson or whatever?

[osiris]

Originally posted by voodoo:
OK I see the right wing nuts are chuckling to themselves. Would you care to explain the joke to the people outside your asylum?

Who is this Hunter Thomson or whatever?

I am not a right wing nut, nor a left wing screwball. Anyway, a sample of HST:

"If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."


Google him, you may be surprised. Here's quick link for a Bio

[MacGorilla]

Hunter S. Thompson is awesome. He'd certainly bring a certaain attitude to the White House.

[rambo47]

To get a peak at Hunter S. Thompson, rent the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[saab95]

Originally posted by Spliffdaddy:
heh.

The pro-Kerry zealots are amazingly silent.

Thompson makes Dubya look like a timid peacenik.

Perhaps because Dubya is a closet timid peacenik

[saab95]

Perhaps it's beside the point but the news article was more about science than Hunter Thompson.

"Kerry: Bush Chooses Ideology Over Science"

This is one instance where Kerry has a point. He wants to legalize stem cell research, something the government had no business prohibiting in the first place.

Then he wants to increase federal funding for stem-cell research.

Talk about two left feet!.

[macvillage.net]

For some reason I have a good feeling this Hunter S. Thompson thing is made just to get people distracted.

No way the Dems would let a neo-conservative run as vice with Kerry.

Looks like Kerry found a great little ploy here. This guy doesn't like Bush... so get the guy's name in the paper and a little publicity for the psycho... Kerry gets a donation, and the media off his back for a few minutes while he scampers to find someone to be his vice.

Sounds like a solid plan.

IIRC Bush pulled something more low-key, but very similar during his campaign when looking for a vice. He posed with a few individuals who we all knew would never be his vice... while he secretly was searching.

Dole did the same thing during his campaign.

Originally posted by saab95:
Perhaps because Dubya is a closet timid peacenik

Well, in a sense he is... he's a draft dodger.

Kind of makes you wonder:

1 guy goes to war, and becomes a peacenik
1 guy has his daddy keep him from war, and becomes a war monger.

[saab95]

Originally posted by macvillage.net:1 guy goes to war, and becomes a peacenik
1 guy has his daddy keep him from war, and becomes a war monger.

So Bush goes to war, then he appeases the enemy .

That's what really happens when a closet peacenik decides to get tough and become a warmonger.

[osiris]

Originally posted by macvillage.net:
For some reason I have a good feeling this Hunter S. Thompson thing is made just to get people distracted.

No way the Dems would let a neo-conservative run as vice with Kerry.

I think Kerry just wanted to get his book signed.

It's a matter of opinion, but I wouldn't call HST a neo-conservative. Maybe a true Libertarian with a conscience towards social disparity and injustice. At least that's the impression I get from his books and essays. The film "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" overstates his acerbic mindset, the book is better and much more accurate.

But it's fun to imagine him in the White House - all boozed up, popping pills, chasing interns. He'd piss everybody off (Left and Right) because he would tell it like it is and strive for social/political reform on a grand scale.

[rambo47]

Imagine a tour of the White House by a bunch of 4th graders, learning about our system of government for the first time, all starry-eyed and in awe of being in the center of it all, and along comes VP Thompson. That would be quite a scene!