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“Duncan will make a great VP under a Thompson Presidency. Or SecDef”

I agree with the author of this article on his viewpoints on moderates/liberals in the Republican party. Nixon,Ford,Rockefeller,GHW Bush/Howard Baker,Dole,etc. I would also include Fred Thompson in that bunch. He may be more conservative than Hillary and Guilianni, but he is and would govern as a moderate, no matter what he says during the campaign. Talking and doing are two different things.

[Pistolshot]

Unfortunately, Duncan hasn't really lit up the conservative base, and if it doesn't happen in the next few weeks, I doubt it will. Money is not rolling in for any of the candidates as they wait for someone they CAN put their trust and money behind.

Fred is an avowed Federalist, and that means small government, lower taxes, sovereignty. His entry into the race will be an influx of new ideas and a way to communicate those ideas. It will be a campaign far different from any we have ever seen.

Duncan, good conservative that he is, doesn't have the name recognition. BUT as a VP he would have the pulpit he needs to become known to the rest of the country and the springboard to ready himself for the future.