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Our next president

I believe the reasons Peter Mulhern gives as to why Fred Thompson Will Win are sound, if not so much for Mr. Thompson’s good points but rather for his rivals (fellow Republicans) and enemies (the liberal nut jobs offered by the Democrats) bad points.

This is not to say Thompson is not an excellent choice for president. It is just that all the others choices have so much working against them.

His rivals either lack strong conservative values (McCain, Giuliani) or have no hope of winning (most of the rest). Only Romney falls outside these two groups but Mulhern has him pegged correctly as well: he just can’t connect with the average Joe.

Thompson’s enemies have the same failings shared by most other liberals; lack of sound judgment, a desire to tax the living daylights out of every paycheck in sight, the belief that more government is the answer to any problem, and a serious disconnect between the moral reality and their infantile daydreams.

Of course, much of the population shares this warped sense of right and wrong- preferring intentions to results and dependency to responsibility. But such is the reality of children, not adults. Democrats will never realize this and this is why they should never be trusted with power.

Indeed, all the Democratic hopefuls are frightening. The common man picked up on that during the last two presidential elections- and, despite how the media has pounded the lie into many peoples head that Iraq is a disaster, the common man will yet again rises up and deal another defeat to liberalism.

The common man does this because he knows what he earns belongs to him and that outrageous taxes, the not only pathetic but often even negative investment Social Security offers, and creeping socialism are supported by either fools or tyrants. He does this because he knows the future of his children is not secure under liberals who would not recognize a dangerous enemy even if one blew up a couple of our skyscrapers and attacked our military command center. But above all he does this because his liberty and the liberty of all those he loves and holds dear is in constant peril from those that, according to the poster girl for socialism (Hillary Clinton), will have to take more from us for the greater good.

The greater good is when government leaves me the devil alone and does what it is supposed to do: provide for the common defense, protect our freedom, and insure the general welfare (i.e. things that benefit practically everybody like roads and the FDA) and not the specific welfare (i.e. redistribution of my earnings to those who some bleeding-heart liberal thinks should have more than they do).

Consider this my official endorsement of Fred Thompson.