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To: Coldwater Creek
Fred Thompson has absolutely NO governing experience whatsoever.

What most people seem to ignore is that the role of a Governor or the Mayor of a large city is drastically different from the constitutional role of the President.

Things like health care programs and education programs are within the authority of the state and local governments. They are not part of the role of the federal government.

Foreign policy and border security are roles of the federal government, not of the state governments.

If we elect Governors to become president, we are likely to get presidents that will continue to spread the authority of the federal government into areas that are supposed to be reserved to the states, because those are the issues that they have dealt with as governors. However they are far less likely to have experience in foreign policy, military, or border issues.

Fred has foreign policy experience. He has considerably more actual experience in the Federal government than either Hillary or Obama.

Huckabee is an experienced state governor, but that experience really doesn't prepare him well for the office of President.

Romney is better off because of his business experience gives him a considerably broader base of experience, however he is still lacking on many important policy issues and it shows in the lack of depth in his plans on how to address difficult issues.

176 posted on 01/07/2008 3:06:25 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: untrained skeptic
If we elect Governors to become president, we are likely to get presidents that will continue to spread the authority of the federal government into areas that are supposed to be reserved to the states, because those are the issues that they have dealt with as governors. However they are far less likely to have experience in foreign policy, military, or border issues.

Fred has foreign policy experience. He has considerably more actual experience in the Federal government than either Hillary or Obama.

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Interesting. Makes sense, too.

177 posted on 01/07/2008 3:09:25 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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