I watched a good part of the Republican debate tonight on CNN. It wasn’t very exciting.
John McCain danced around on his stand of the immigration bill, while Rudy did a two step around the abortion and gay in the military debates. Sam Brownback looked good and was steady. Mike Huckabee gave a great answer on the culture of life. However, I thought Mitt Romney had the best answers and looked the most presidential of the lot.
After that, I turned over to Fox News and watched Sean Hannity interview Fred Thompson. I was very impressed. His calm demeanor, clear answers to the questions and deep soothing voice were very very reassuring that if he were elected, the USA would be in good hands. If Thompson decides to enter the race - which seems very probable - he will draw much of the far right support.
It’s too early to tell who will come out on top, but my choice at this point would be Fred Thompson as the Presidential candidate and Sam Brownback as VP.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackActually I think Fred would be wise to choose Rick Santorum as his VP. Here is what I posted on another site:
Who will Fred choose as VP?
I would strongly encourage him to select Rick Santorum who lost his senate seat in Pennsylvania. Santorum was a very energetic and important conservative senator. The fact that he was senator from Pennsylvania is something of a miracle anyway - but he has lot of support in what is arguably a rust belt state. I think Santorum can deliver Pennsylvania for Thompson, and it is one of the bell weather states which also include Florida and Ohio.
I think Fred is the best move by far for the Repubs. They are going to get slaughtered in 08 so might as well have a jolly 65 year older dude take the lumps. Mitt is the only guy up there that is even remotely in tune with the universe as it exists - compared to the rest of them saying let my kid get blown up defending Oil and the Bush Ubberstupid Dynasty. Except of course, they don’t mean “my kid” they mean YOUR kid. Their kids are way to smart to sign up to get blown away by an roadside bomb. Join the greatest fighting force in the world and get blown to bits for nothing -madness - part of the reason the Repubs have to rebuild. Where is Falwell when you need him? Ya, sure…
Time after time in these one-on-one interviews with Fred he’s asked tough questions… like when Sean asked him… would he pardon Scooter Libby?… most candidates would side-step a question like that… not Fred… he said “Yes.”. Sean asked him if he would support a preemptive attack on Iran if they were about to go nuclear… again… no hesitation… “Yes.” He’s already made it clear he’s pretty comfortable in his skin… you won’t see anybody telling him “Americans would think of you better if you wore a flannel shirt and got some botox.” for example… I wanted the guy to run for President in 2000… I’m glad he’s thinking about it now…
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