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Fred Dalton Thompson, who plays tough New York District Attorney Arthur Branch in the hit legal drama Law & Order, is being touted as a Republican presidential candidate for 2008.
Today The Daily Grind is urging voters to instead support Mr Thompson’s co-star, Sam Waterson, but only if the latter takes on the presidency in character as gritty Executive DA Jack McCoy.
The fictional McCoy’s career as New York County’s most formidable public prosecutor has spanned 30 years. Despite various hinted-at indiscretions with his endless parade of attractive young female prosecutors, McCoy’s breathlessly gruff delivery gives him a gravitas that is unmatched by his peers.
McCoy’s passionate defence of the death penalty and his highly expressive eyebrows will make him the darling of Republican primary voters, yet his efforts to overturn miscarriages of justice will help him to play to the centre post-nomination.
Few television stars have had so much experience facing questions on the limits of executive power. None are so consistently anti-murder—even fictional cops sometimes kill.
The 2008 election will be an opportunity for the United States to move on from the divisiveness and partisanship of the Bush administration. The Daily Grind believes that this transition must take place without the country lurching to the radical left embodied by Democrats such as John Edwards and Nancy Pelosi.
It is the view of The Daily Grind that only fictive Jack McCoy can offer American voters a real choice.
