Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Common sense from Fred Thompson

Former Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN) has some advice on how conservatives can rebuild a national majority.

Remember, we are still a center-right nation.

From Townhall.com:

We are going to have to use every tool we have—grassroots organizations, think tanks, magazines, talk radio, the Internet—while building new institutions to blunt the efforts of a left-wing establishment that appears willing to use uncertainty to impose an agenda that would never see the light of day in normal times.

The challenge will be to fight the Democratic instinct to let government meet every need and solve every problem and to divide our nation by class and race, while also laying the groundwork for the kind of historic mid-term election we achieved in 1994.

We gained those victories with a focus on innovative, free-market, pro-freedom, policy solutions to issues like welfare reform, promising to cut spending and balance the budget, and recruiting a host of talented, young (and perhaps not-so-young) men and women willing to step into the arena and run for office.

We have the formula—a conservative formula—that has worked before and will surely work again. It is grounded in our first principles. It’s time we moved past the recriminations and seven stages of grief. It’s time to look ahead, to stay united and to defend the values that we know must endure if our nation is to do the same.

As for talk radio, mental midgets like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and my own despicable congresscritter, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), want to take that medium away reinstating the ludicrously named "Fairness Doctrine."

Now is not the time to go wobbly.

Related post:

Report from the Fred Thompson bloggers' brunch

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fred Thompson I think should have stayed in the game a bit longer than he did. But He may have been
right in dropping out of the race
when he did. Even if Thompson had stayed in the race, it would not
have changed the outcome. This is
truly an Obamanation

Anonymous said...

How long was Thompson a senator
before he dropped out?

Anonymous said...

center right is the latest lie republicans like to tell themselves. America is a progressive country. Reagan made "liberal" a dirty word, so people don't like to call themselves that. You guys lost big time. Deal with it. You don't get to dictate the terms on which we move forward.

Anonymous said...

Have to admit, I sure liked him in
"Law And Order".

Anonymous said...

I call it the "Fascist Doctrine"; there is nothing "Fair" about it.

Anonymous said...

Liberals themselves made the term "lberal" a dirty word, which it still is. I consider it Crack Cocaine for and of the mind. In fact, Obama ran as a tax-cutter, which he certainly isn't. America is not a "progressive" nation; liberals/progressives must lie about their beliefs to win. I will not allow anyone else to "dictate the terms of moving forward." Don't tread on me/Live Free or Die. You leftists are asking for it and you WILL get it and then some.

Anonymous said...

Remember the words of the "Elder"
Bush? Read My Lips, No New Taxes.
That sure went to the wayside as
soon as he got into office. Then 8
eight years later, alon comes
junior "Bush".