Actor, ex-presidential candidate and former Sen. Fred Thompson neatly summed up his thoughts on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan Tuesday: she’s going to get confirmed and she’s not that bad.
“I must say that I’ve been a little bit pleasantly surprised that she’s not any worse than I thought she might be,” Thompson told an audience mostly of interns at a book event at the Heritage Foundation’s Washington headquarters. “We could have done a lot worse than her with the leverage the president has right now.”
Thompson ushered President Bush’s pick, Chief Justice John Roberts, through the confirmation process in 2005.
During the past few days, Thompson has done a lot of talking and heavy promoting of his new book, “Teaching the Pig to Dance,” all across Washington. He hit the party circuit throughout the weekend and visited the National Press Club on Monday. At Heritage, he dished about his presidential run and “Law & Order.”
“It won’t take me long,” he said about his flirtation with presidential politics, and boasted that he did beat Sen. John McCain in Iowa.
In addition, he was saddened to see his old show pulled off the air.
“You knew when I left ‘Law & Order’ it was only a matter of time,” he said, laughing.
