I think if quotations were used around the nickname, "Larry Flynt", it would be more clear who the subject was based upon. This past week we had a thread based on the actual Larry Flynt, no?
http://jtf.org/forum_english/index.php/topic,49187.0.html^This thread is about the real person named Larry Flynt, and it was posted in very close proximity to this thread, which made me at least think this thread was also about the pornographer. Had I known it was not about the pornographer I would have read this thread sooner -- I can very easily imagine certain groups of Libertarians [who may masquerade as Republicans] advocating the actual Larry Flynt for president because he is often associated with [questionable] free speech.
This being said, I think its a bad idea if Fred Thompson runs. No one [sensible] wants that,