All the points I have in bold is just some of the reasons I like Fred! Plus President Thompson sounds good, he is no relation that I know of anyway. We both have wrinkled faces and deep voices though.

Why I Like Fred

Early last year while shopping at an Embassy Suites gift shop, I spied a Fred Thompson campaign button and snapped it up because the idea of another actor running for the highest office in the land intrigued me.

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I’ve noticed the negligent media coverage of Thompson’s campaign and it makes me wonder if the mainstream press considers him far more formidable than it would like. I’ve watched the debates, listened to the positions of all the candidates and I like Fred Thompson because he’s running as an adult, not an entertainer.

When the moderator of the Iowa debate asked for a show of hands for those who believe that global warming is serious and man-made, Thompson immediately said, “I’m not doing a show of hands today”. At least five of the other candidates had already raised their hands then lowered them when Thompson made his defiant stand against this juvenile request. It was clear who was a leader not a follower and isn’t that whom we’re supposed to be electing in November?

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There probably has never been a clearer choice between the two major political parties. Democrats are pro-choice; for gay marriage; a repeal of the tax cuts; bigger government and want a withdrawal from Iraq. The Republican candidates other than Ron Paul on Iraq are adamantly opposed to all these positions. Yet according to Dick Morris, the Republican Party is fractured into three factions. The social conservatives are for Huckabee; the economic conservatives are for Romney and the national security crowd is for Giuliani. Oddly enough, Fred Thompson meets the criteria of all three blocs and sooner or later it’s going to dawn on all these Republicans that they like Fred, too

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