Maybe the guy with the good ideas should win over the 'popular' kids!
I was having a conversation in the hall this morning with one of my coworkers (as close to a water cooler as we have), and I mentioned that I though that as the primaries drew closer the policy positions of the candidates would take on more and more importance. It was my contention that Fred Thompson was making some people open there eyes thanks to the strength of his published policy positions. My coworker - lets call him Brian (since that is his name) - was not too excited by Fred and didn't think much of his candidacy. The problem is that when I pressed him on what he thought of Fred's policy positions, he said he wasn't too familiar with them.
Huh!?
Come on people! Contrary to popular belief, Rudy and Hillary are not yet the nominees - unless of course you just accept what the MSM feeds you and either regurgitate it back out at the polls or find it too unpleasant or impossible to vote for either of those two and just stay home. It is our responsibility as citizens to read up on what these candidates are proposing for this country, and then vote for the person that we feel is most qualified. A President isn't like a toaster you buy at Wal-Mart that you can just take back when it burns your bagel. If Rudy gets in and you find you don't like his social liberalism, or Hillary gets in and you find you don't like Socialism (pogroms, purges, oppressive taxes...) you're just SOL! You can't take a President back for a different model if they don't work out the way you wanted.
You can disengage from the process if you want. Go ahead, stay at home if you find it too complicated, frustrating, or mentally taxing. But if you do, don't you dare complain about who we end up with as President for the next 4-8 years!
To be honest, I'm not yet 100% in the Fred camp myself (maybe 75%), but with the personal, policy, and ideology questions that are arising with regard to all the other candidates, it seems to me that Fred is playing the part of the cream... rising to the top.
Want to know more about Fred or any of the other candidates? It's never been simpler. Just visit their websites. It'll probably take you less time to learn all you need to know about these candidates than you spend in traffic on any given day. Here's one to get you started...
And here is another.
