Posted by
Dawnsblood on Friday, January 19, 2007 10:27:58 PM
Some argue that he is the next Reagan...
Is there such a man? Yes, there is: Fred Thompson. He has been
consistently conservative on social policy and his help in getting John
Roberts confirmed as Chief Justice to the Supreme Court was critical.
Thompson has a record in the Senate and he voted conservative,
according to the American Conservative Union, eighty-six percent of the
time.
Although a conservative senator,
he is well liked in the Senate. He also knows the Senate very well,
although he has not been a member of the Senate for five years.
Thompson also supported John McCain in 2000 and was his national
co-chair. He has managed to be friendly with McCain and yet a strong
supporter of President Bush. In short, he would be a unifier for the
entire Republican Party and should receive the strong support of
McCain, if Thompson won the nomination.
The most intriguing aspect of a Thompson candidacy, however, would
be his extensive and successful experience as a movie star, a regular
on two very popular television programsradio program reaches tens of millions of older Americans every single day.
(programs, pointedly, that are particularly popular with women voters), and now as the replacement for Paul Harvey, whose
There is another Republican who did a regular radio commentary, who
appeared before the American people for years on a very popular
television program, who before that was a successful movie star, and
who had left politics for several years before running for president.
Who? Ronald Reagan, of course. He spoke to the American people with a
radio commentary during the years between his defeat for the 1976
nomination and his run for the 1980 nomination. He was on General
Electric Theater, a highly rated show, for years before entering
politics. President Reagan honed his skills as a communicator at every
single level.