Re: Fred Thompson for Poker?
The biggest obstacle I is see with the GOP contenders in 2008 is two fold.
The new ‘catch phrase’ among the GOP top tier (Romney, Thompson, et al) is Federalism. However, they also want to be in bed with the Far Right (FoF, Dobson, et al) and the two are mutually exclusive positions.
The right conservatives want to legislate morality; a true Federalist wants limited federal government preferring states / individual rights.
They cannot have their cake and eat it too, though they seem to think so. This mantra of federalism is simply the Bush catch phrase ‘Compassionate Conservative’ repackaged and we see where that got us.
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