IBJ For Fred

The Investor's Business Daily has written an editorial that, in the end, supports Fred. But it is the reason for supporting Fred that I like the most. They talk about how Reagan saved the party and attribute three fundamental positions to saving the party:

• Lowering high taxes and stemming the growth of government in order to revive the private economy, lower inflation and interest rates, and generate jobs.
• Rebuilding U.S. defenses and unashamedly confronting Soviet expansionism with the goal of winning the Cold War rather than learning to live with communism.
• Reasserting traditional values in the aftermath of the 1960s social revolution, including opposing abortion and smut, especially through the appointment of federal judges holding strict-constructionist views.

Huckabee could fill the role, except that he keeps attacking the Club for Growth and calling capitalists "Scrooges". Fred on the other hand, fills all three positions very nicely.