Go For It Fred!
Another Conservative Hollywooder? What? Won’t he bring Hollyweird to the White House?
I don’t think so and neither do a lot of others. He seems to be a straight shooter…much like Ronald Reagan. I don’t know all that much about him…just from what I hear in his interviews and such. There is a lot to learn.
“The current Republican field is like a smorgasbord at Denny’s — lots of OK choices, but nothing to get the heart racing. That’s why the potential candidacy of former Sen. Fred Thompson is creating a palpable stir.
Rudy Giuliani — now riding the crest of a popularity wave — is appealing for many reasons. He is the only candidate who can really be said to have accomplished a political miracle. When he took over as mayor of New York City, the murder rate was sky-high, confiscatory taxes were driving businesses from the city, and many considered the place unlivable. Few, including conservatives who hoped for Giuliani’s election, believed that New York could actually be improved.
There were such inherent weaknesses in New York’s polity — a high illegitimacy rate, the erosion of the educational system, intergenerational welfare dependence — that political solutions seemed out of reach. But by the time Giuliani left office, the crime rate was reduced to levels not seen since the 1960s, the welfare rate was cut in half, the subway cars were free of graffiti, and business was booming. Almost as important, Giuliani demonstrated as mayor a trait that would be delicious in a president — he didn’t give a fig for the good opinion of The New York Times. And everyone agrees that he is solid on the war on terror…”
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