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Heya, Brices, thanks for the ping. The more people find out about Romney and Thompson, the better for Thompson. Anecdotal evidence, true, but I just had a conversation with a wonderful but yet-to-be-more-fully-informed conservative friend of my dad's, who was leaning toward Huckabee or perhaps Romney. We had an amiable conversation in which he expressed his disgust with ever-growing intrusive government. I was able to tell him specific past works of Huck and Romney that he hadn't heard about before.

And I could see that he was seriously thinking about re-thinking his first words about Thompson: "Ah, he's a phony ...." Romney's campaign lit sure isn't going to mention RomneyCare or the penalties individuals and businesses in MA are paying for NOT being able to go to nanny government with proof that they've been good little children and found health insurance. Huck's campaign lit sure isn't going to talk about his penchant for smoking bans in public and private places.

I just visited the website of Hugh Hewitt, who many (I'm one) have come to consider a Romney shill, and saw a post (I think our FRiend spacekicker hangs there occasionally, so he might have seen it too) about CFR and Romney. This one really got me -- the poster said that Romney not only supported the CFR concept in Massachusetts in I believe it was 1992, but he wanted to take it even further and regulate campaign expenditures as well!

Sentiments like "We Republicans should be focusing on Hillary, not tearing each other down!" sound noble, but in the primary season, they are actually words of chicken-hearted weakness. Right now, we must have the courage to do the dirty work hashing things out in pursuit of the best guy to represent the Republican party in the race against the Democrat presidential candidate, which may or may not be Hillary.

That necessarily entails "tearing down" Republicans who will be either too weak or too liberal. It's not pleasant, but somebody's got to do it and pretending otherwise is just that -- pretend.

It's time to get aggressive about enlightening fellow primary voters about the many faults of Romney as well as the true conservative record (not campaign promises, but record) of Thompson. None of the candidates is perfect, including Thompson. But he's obviously the closest to it especially when compared to the deeply flawed Giuliani and Romney.

The eye on the ball now: educate Republican primary voters about the THREE main guys: Thompson, Romney, and Giuliani, with a special focus on Romney because unlike either Rudy or Thompson, he is the most disingenuous in how he represents his past; uninformed people are gullible people, so the best way to get people beyond being gulled by the Ladies' Candidate Mitt is by informing them about Mitt's record. The RomneyCare thing alone should do it -- nationalized health care would be a guaranteed nightmare no matter whether it came from Republicans or Democrats. But if it's not enough, Romney's past is a target-rich environment on the 2nd amendment, normalizing homosexuality, tax-funded abortion for the poor (the primary consequence of retaining Roe V Wade), and even CFR, if Romney did indeed support a CFR-type move in MA.

Democrats should be of little concern during Republican primaries. The biggest concern should be revealing and comparing the flaws in the primary Republican candidates. Vote-splitting and pluralities are as much at work in the primaries as they are in a Presidential race with a third-party candidates, and must be considered accordingly.

Good anaylsis, Finny. Both Huckabee and Romney have to run their campaigns using the Democrat tactic of hiding their records from the public. Their campaigns are necessarily based upon deception and thus doomed to failure, as long as the message is spread that Romney and Huckabee are big nanny staters, weak on Immigration, bad on Right to Life(Romney: $50 abortions), ethically challenged (Huckabee), and high taxers. So keep spreading the word.

Giuliani is running as what he is (a liberal) but relying on a split in the conservative vote and the fake “electability” argument to win it for him. As voters in Iowa focus on Huckabee’s checkered past and Romney’s socialized health care plan with mandatory $50 abortions, they are both going to fade. In the age of the internet, deceptions are much harder to perpetrate. When this happens, Giuliani will recede. His electability argument has already been exposed as a sham, when you consider the likely third party challenge he will face as well as the fact that he cannot count on the South, as I point out in post 39.

Excellent analysis. I feel stronger about Fred Thompson every day, and amazed that everyone else does not see what we see in this very fine and capable man. Imagine the personal sacrifice of he and Jeri to give up their perfectly comfortable life to jump into this circus they call politics. Fred was very successful already, having about all he needed or wanted.

WE THE PEOPLE asked him to step up for our Country. And gratefully, he did. Fred Thompson is a WE THE PEOPLE candidate.

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