Alexander: Democrats Fear Thompson... and should

http://coloradoansforthompson.blogspot.com/2007/03/alexander-democrats-fear-thompson-and.html

Another "The Next Reagan?" - and the answer is YES!

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Mainstream press begins their attacks: Just an Actor?

Looks like Bill Hobbs has figured out how the mainstream press will try to denigrate and defeat Fred Thompson

Thompson, the LAT said, "positioning himself to answer the call and, perhaps, follow the script that saw Ronald Reagan jump from Hollywood to the White House."

Actually, Reagan didn't "jump from Hollywood to the White House." He was a successful and popular two-term governor of California in between his acting career and his presidency.

Likewise, Thompson is not just an actor who plays conservative leader types on TV and the silver screen. He's not even primarily an actor, and unlike Reagan, acting was not even his first career.

Thompson was, at first, an attorney and prosecutor - real-life roles with major accomplishments that lead him, through a quirk of fate, to a second career as an actor.

Courtesy of Elephant Biz

Thompson as the Anti-Romney?

The NY Sun is running an article on why Romney's campaign is worried about FDT

... Mr. Thompson's a threat to every candidate for the Republican nomination.

But there's one candidate whose campaign he could end almost instantaneously, should he choose to run: that of Mr. Romney. Mr. Thompson is pro-life, pro-gun, anti-gay marriage, and anti-tax — like Mr. Romney. But he has one advantage over the former governor: He didn't just come to these positions over the last year or so, in a "Road to Des Moines" conversion.

On virtually every issue, Mr. Thompson is as far right, or further, than Mr. Romney, and he has been for some time.

...

"With the current field, there is, as of now, some difficulty in getting economic, foreign policy, and social conservatives all on the same page," Mr. Bauer said. "So, in view of that, I would like to see Thompson throw his hat in. … I think he'd have a reasonable chance of getting support from all three of the legs of the stool President Reagan put together."

And as Mr. Thompson appeals to social conservatives, there's nothing immediately evident that should disqualify him with fiscal conservatives.

"Generally speaking, he had a pretty fiscally conservative record," the head of the Club for Growth, Pat Toomey, told me yesterday. "There's still something approaching a void in the center of the Republican ideological spectrum. … The guy who could be dominating the center, but isn't, is Mitt Romney."

"If this void continues, then somebody like a Fred Thompson could become a first-tier candidate rather quickly," Mr. Toomey said.

HatTip to DraftThompson08
Courtesy of Ryan Sager in the NY Sun 3/21/07