Posted by
Darrick Johnson on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:57:10 PM
The long awaited endorsement from BackSpin is out: Fred Dalton Thompson.
Every primary and caucus voter should watch
Fred's message to Iowa voters:
Rudy, Romney, and Huckabee all have their weaknesses, and their strengths, but the most important quality in a candidate is going to be the ability to communicate conservative principles. We as Republicans have to stop trying to win elections 'on the cheap.' For too many years, we have taken the lazy road to campaigning. We try to sell voters on tax cuts, because that's an easy sell, and then we try to offer all the candy that Democrats offer. Democrats offer 'free health care', and Republicans respond by offering limited free health care. Republicans get into a bidding war, throwing money at a dysfunctional education system. We need a candidate who can make the case to voters why socialized medicine is a bad idea, not just an expensive idea, but an assault on personal freedom. Our education system is a mess, primarily because of the NEA, not because $17000/year is insufficient to provide a student with an education. Fred Thompson, better than any other candidate, articulates those conservative priniciples.
If the issues in 2008 are health care and education, we have to change the debate, get out of the big goverment bidding war, and courageously educate voters about the faulty premises the democrats debate upon. Fred can win, he can speak plainly and clearly to voters. Negative ads about Obama's inexperience, or Hillary's...well, you name the characteristic... won't win in 2008. And even if they did, they would provide us with no mandate to accomplish the things we need to do. If we have to promise an expansion of government health care to win, what are we really winning? Fred has the right ideas, the right principles, and the ability to persuade, that's why he ought to be our nominee. Go kick some butt in South Carolina Senator Thompson!