I was reading another post in L&P and became curious, if not confused by the support the both Ron Paul and Fred Thompson enjoy here on TFL. I have listened to many of the current canidates speak at the Ames Straw Poll and have been impressed by three of them-Huckabee, Brownback and Hunter-in no particular order.
While at the straw poll I met Brownback, spoke with(and was impressed by)a Huckabee staffer and had a nice talk with Mr. Hunter's wife(after the raffle for a shotgun). The message of each canidate was to secure the border, complete the mission in Iraq so our children do not have to clean up the mess and various other planks that seem to fit right into the conservative platform that our politicians have been striving for mediocrity with for a while. Plus that guy Brownback wants to go Apollo-program on cancers rear end(ie, dedicating a sizeable percent[5%] of our GNP to defeating cancer in 10 years or so).
I guess my question is what do Thompson-who just announced on the Tonight Show of all places-and Paul-whose strategy for Iraq may send my unborn children back there if it does not kill me before I get to that chore-have to offer that these more traditonal(in the good sense)canidates do not?
For the record I have yet to decide to support a particular candidate for president. I am still in the beer-drinking fact-finding on the internet phase of the American electoral process; ah, technology!
While at the straw poll I met Brownback, spoke with(and was impressed by)a Huckabee staffer and had a nice talk with Mr. Hunter's wife(after the raffle for a shotgun). The message of each canidate was to secure the border, complete the mission in Iraq so our children do not have to clean up the mess and various other planks that seem to fit right into the conservative platform that our politicians have been striving for mediocrity with for a while. Plus that guy Brownback wants to go Apollo-program on cancers rear end(ie, dedicating a sizeable percent[5%] of our GNP to defeating cancer in 10 years or so).
I guess my question is what do Thompson-who just announced on the Tonight Show of all places-and Paul-whose strategy for Iraq may send my unborn children back there if it does not kill me before I get to that chore-have to offer that these more traditonal(in the good sense)canidates do not?
For the record I have yet to decide to support a particular candidate for president. I am still in the beer-drinking fact-finding on the internet phase of the American electoral process; ah, technology!