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Thompson and Reagan
The Ashbrook Center ^ | September 2007 | Professor Andrew E. Busch

Posted on 09/18/2007 10:44:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Reagan Man
In the end Fred will have crossover appeal on gun voters bringing them all home.

I mean Joe lunchbucket that works all week and on the weekend goes hunting, fishing, or to the range.

Most every election the NRA will endorse a candidate for POTUS but few have ever had the NRA president out campaigning for them.

When Fred ran for the Senate Charlton Heston personally went to Tenn to campaign for Fred. Thats a tough act to follow.

SS is going to go broke if something isn’t done about it.

If Fred can assure the younger voters that they wont get taxed to death and can let the seniors know they wont be kicked to the curb he can sell the truth to them.

President Bush tried but couldn’t articulate the message over the liberal MSM. I think Fred can do that.

Everyone is sick of taxes and he can sell his message there.

Fix the borders, stop the illegals, then we’ll talk. Fred can sell that.

I can see Fred getting lots of crossover, except the rabid barking moonbats, code pinkos, welfare leeches, queers, abortion clinic workers, and some confused sucker mom’s. ( or is that soccer mom’s?)

When Fred wins the nomination I don’t think the election will be that close.

61 posted on 09/18/2007 12:59:25 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: COgamer

“That’s what the media did with “America’s Mayor,” “

He was NYC’s Mare, and he dressed the part.


62 posted on 09/18/2007 1:06:23 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: deport
That is a self centered egotistical approach doomed to failure in bringing the masses into your sphere and securing their help.... jmo.

Duly noted. What is nonapplicable in this, however, is that Thompson has not been on the same stage. Get back to us after a reasonable number of "debates."

63 posted on 09/18/2007 1:47:43 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy, Folksy,

Just a little somethin’ to help you FredHeads get your buzz on...

;D


64 posted on 09/18/2007 1:59:32 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Vote for FrudyMcRomson -Turn red states purple in 08!)
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To: Tarpon
I wonder what principles Hillary has at her core? hmmm

Besides the principles, I'm guessing she has a nest of spiders at her core.

65 posted on 09/18/2007 1:59:32 PM PDT by Wissa (I despise the liberal media.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Tennessean will have to overcome the nation's recent reluctance to turn to the Senate for presidents
If it's Thompson vs. Clinton, what's the "nation" going to do about it's "reluctance to turn to the Senate for presidents"? Vote to keep Bush in office another 4 years?

This is yet another of a huge number of pieces that mention Thompson as a senator with no executive experience while failing to mention that his odds-on most-likely opponent will be, yes, that's right, a senator with no executive experience. (Or do they all think that her time in the WH drawing up enemy lists counts as executive experience?)

66 posted on 09/18/2007 2:00:29 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Paul Ross

Duly noted. What is nonapplicable in this, however, is that Thompson has not been on the same stage. Get back to us after a reasonable number of “debates.”


Yep.... Thompson is capable of doing the same things and may well falter. Until then at least he’s been more major policy/goal oriented than self centered. But I won’t have to get back with anyone as the public will make the choice and either accept or reject him based upon his perceived abilities and how well he articulates them. jmo as I so stated in the first post.


67 posted on 09/18/2007 2:03:45 PM PDT by deport (>>>--Keep your powder dry--<<< [ Meanwhile:-- Cue Spooky Music--])
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To: roamer_1

By “Fredheads” you of course mean the majority of us here at FR, including the founder, Jim Robinson, right?


68 posted on 09/18/2007 2:06:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (https://www.fred08.com/contribute.aspx?RefererID=c637caaa-315c-4b4c-9967-08d864cd0791)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rudy has no choice but to make 9/11, and therefore the WOT his centerpiece issue with republican primary voters.
Not just 9/11. He actually does have executive experience and it was good experience. He took a broken city (a huge broken city) and fixed it. I think he has the potential of being a good president on many issues, while, of course, being a total liberal on some very important issues that count, which is why I am not backing him in the primary but have already sent in my first contribution to Fred.

But it's not correct to say Rudy only has 9/11. He also has NY.

69 posted on 09/18/2007 2:07:10 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Gelato
Your point is screwy.

Ronald Reagan didn't consider himself a better man than Howard Baker. Baker was Reagan’s Chief of Staff. And Bush43 never thought he was a better man than John McCain either. Maybe better candidates.

70 posted on 09/18/2007 2:17:13 PM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: samtheman
But it's not correct to say Rudy only has 9/11. He also has NY.
Though I live here and appreciate Rudy's taming of NYC, I have never deluded myself into believing that anyone in the rest of the country gives a crap whether Rudy kept it from flushing down the toilet or not. Rudy does not also have NY to run on.
71 posted on 09/18/2007 2:17:17 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider

Ok, here I go, out on a limb, seeming to defend a guy who is not my candidate. But I just hate when inaccuracies are repeated over and over again, no matter what side does the repeating.

First of all, you’re wrong. Americans DO care whether ANY major US city gets “flushed down the toilet” or not. And secondly, even if you were right about that (which you’re not), the only point I was trying to make is that executive experience is rare in this primary season, on ALL sides, and Rudy happens to have some.

Once again. I’m for Fred. I sent him one check, I’ll send him more. But I hate to see history rewritten, no matter who does the rewriting of it, even those on my side.


72 posted on 09/18/2007 2:24:34 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Beagle8U
I agree with your post.

FredT is a pro-defense, pro-limited govt, pro-federalist, pro-tax reform, pro-gun, pro-life, pro-trade, pro-business, pro-entitlement reform, anti-special rights, secured borders and anti-amnesty conservative. Fred wants to preserve and strengthen American sovereignty, kill the Islamofascists and win the WOT.

I like Fred and I like his chances of becoming the next POTUS.

73 posted on 09/18/2007 2:27:14 PM PDT by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: samtheman
Ford to NY: Drop Dead

Does that ring a bell?

74 posted on 09/18/2007 2:28:48 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
By “Fredheads” you of course mean the majority of us here at FR, including the founder, Jim Robinson, right?

Yeah... So?

75 posted on 09/18/2007 2:33:33 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Vote for FrudyMcRomson -Turn red states purple in 08!)
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To: eastsider

There’s a difference between asking for a handout, which NY did in the 1970s, and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, which is what NY did under Rudy.

The first case engenders nothing but disgust from the rest of the nation. The second, a certain amount of admiration. You know, you root for people who get themselves out of a mess.

You say you live in NY, but I have my doubts. I don’t think you realize how big the turnaround was, and how it was noticed elsewhere.

And then there was 9/11. Are you saying it would have had a larger impact on the American public had it been in some “better” city?


76 posted on 09/18/2007 2:34:10 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Reagan Man
FredT is a pro-defense, pro-limited govt, pro-federalist, pro-tax reform, pro-gun, pro-life, pro-trade, pro-business, pro-entitlement reform, anti-special rights, secured borders and anti-amnesty conservative. Fred wants to preserve and strengthen American sovereignty, kill the Islamofascists and win the WOT.
You got that right. That's one long list of sterling credentials, in my book.
77 posted on 09/18/2007 2:35:41 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
That's right, I picked the screenname "eastsider" nine years ago, but I really live in Billings ...

BTW, in response to the '93 bombing of the Towers, Rudy set up his Emergency Crisis Center at -- get this -- Ground Zero! Brilliant!

78 posted on 09/18/2007 2:46:58 PM PDT by eastsider
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To: eastsider

The east side of Billings isn’t the preferred side, but I guess it does have more local color.


79 posted on 09/18/2007 2:48:19 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman

Sterling corroded by voting for China MFN status...when he knew very well that they were Communist ultra-protectionist and would never abide by any “steenkin” free trade rulez.


80 posted on 09/18/2007 4:10:08 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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