All you voters are going to sort it out however you go about it, but it smells more and more to me like you all are going to try and make the ludicrous argument that Fred Thompson is the next Reagan, or thereabouts.
Though Bruce doesn't address that specifically, he does provide ample evidence that nothing could be further off. He also quotes from another article and comments...
Thompson's biggest challenge will likely be cementing his image as a conservative country lawyer fixin' to shake up Washington — before his opponents brand him as an influence peddler and trial lawyer.
The good news for Thompson is if he strikes back quickly and effectively, he can neutralize these attempts to characterize him.
I would point out to Bruce: Thompson is an "influence peddler and trial lawyer." So why would any libertarian thinks it's good news if anyone can "neutralize attempts to characterize" the god dammed truth?
But like I said, you all are going to do what you're going to do. I just hope I don't see much of that Thompson is Reagan crapola. Yea, Reagan ended up just as big a compromiser as they all do, but at least he began with the right ideas in the first place and I can't help but think it was better for us than just about anyone with a shot at the thing at the time.
Thompson seems like a nice and likable guy. Of course. He's an actor, like Reagan. But he's no Reagan. Not by any stretch.
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government."
This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that,it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Just goes to show that there is really no political solution. We have simply to outrun and outgrow the "primitivity" of politics as wielded by the coercive state.
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I still prefer Thompson over any of the others. It seems that his big thing is federalism, in that he makes the right noises in that direction, and what I know of his record supports it. That is the single most important sturctural issue in national politics now (and actual issues of content are moot, so what else is there?) Still, it's not like I buy it enough to actually demean myself into a voting booth or anything. And I'm certainly not going to actually *hope* for anything to come of it.
Besides, he's the favorite to win, in my estimation, so I might as well look for something positive in it. Cynicism aside, I think there is a non-zero chance that he could make as big a difference as Reagan did. Just barely non-zero.
Most of the 2008 presidential candidates are backed by the money of David Rockefeller in one way or another, and that money is being spent for the purpose of pushing forward the agenda for One World Government, which will greatly benefit international corporations.
All of these candidates are members of David Rockefeller's Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which advocates One World Government –
Fred Thompson (also a member of the pro-war American Enterprise Institute)
Rudy Giuliani
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Jim Gilmore
Newt Gingrich
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Joe Biden
Chris Dodd
Bill Richardson
I bet they all eat carrots, too.
Kyle:
You forgot about the likely toilet paper connection.
Personally, I think that everything in politics and public policy is (to me) a thinly veiled international plot to get everyone using toilet paper for the benefit of multinational corporations. How many of do you think hold an interest in pulp production, manufacture, and distribution? Huh?
Think about it.