When Fred first started making noise about running for President several months ago, I immediately was drawn to him for several reasons. One of those reasons had to do with the other races in the 2008 election--Congress.
I think back to 1994 and note that the success of the "Republican Revolution" was that there was a strong message that many candidates could stand on so that when the voters cast their votes, they knew what they were voting for. This was personified in Newt Gingrich.
Can you visualize your congressional candidate running as a "Mitt Republican", or a "Huckabee Republican" or whichever candidate you wish to put in there? With the exception of Ron Paul (and a "Paul Republican" is another name for a "Libertarian"), I cannot visualize any candidate except Fred holding the umbrella for congressional candidates to stand under.
A "Thompson Republican" is a Republican strongly supporting Federalism (or Frederalism). This is the control spending; strong defense; return governmental functions to the states; get the government out of our lives movement. That is a platform that Republicans can run on and win.
Fred can have coattails. I don't see any of the other Republican candidates having coattails.
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