[deaconjim]

I’ve been one of those hoping that Fred would get in the race, but now I’m not sure. He sounds good, but could he ever be President? He has a bad habit of speaking his mind and answering his critics with well founded facts. He even goes so far as backing up his facts with the constitution. What kind of President would do something like that? /sarcasm.

GO FRED!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Shocking...aint it.

[DungeonMaster]

Imagine a president that can actually express himself.

[Wallace T.]

No Republican president, not even Reagan, was successful in breaking the back of the permanent bureaucracy in the Federal agencies, especially ones like the State Department, the Interior Department, and the Justice Department, that have been dominated by liberals, in some cases since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. Neither of the Bushes were willing to take the permanent bureaucracy on, and they helped wreck the elder Bush and are in the process of sabotaging the son. Reagan had some good intentions in this area, but backed down after the MSM and the Democrats, with the assistance of these bureaucrats, destroyed James Watt and other early appointees.

Reagan was a conservative, but was tempered by pragmatism. We got Sandra O'Connor on the Supreme Court and a hasty withdrawal from Lebanon because the Great Communicator saw that a more conservative, tougher stand on such issues would be politically untenable. To his credit, President Bush has stuck to his guns on the Iraq war, to the detriment of his approval ratings. (Unfortunately, his limited war and nation building strategies are wrong.)

If Thompson and his appointees are tough enough to clean house in the liberal agencies and effective enough in communication skills, he will be a President even greater than Reagan had been.