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First a disclaimer. I am an enthusiast for the candidacy of Fred Thompson and a fan that is signed up to do what I can to get him elected in Nov. 2008.

I believe that John Fund's article in the May paper edition of the Spectator has pretty well nailed the reasons so many of us believe in Fred. By contrast, the articles by Mr. Tabin, Ms. Rubin, et al. miss the point either purposely or because their status among the political and/or journalistic activist elite will not allow them to see what is before their noses.

Yes, Fred is committed to doing things very differently then the conventional wisdom dictates. Yes, Fred is an entirely different type of politician from what we are usually subjected to. What entirely too many of your writers don't seem to understand is that that is precisely why we like Fred. That is precisely what Ronald Reagan was, and that is why he was underestimated all the time, yet often left the professional pols in the dust.

What is wrong with Rudy McRomney and the rest of the field? They are conventional politicians determined to run campaigns in conventional ways, and then govern in conventional ways. They want the job entirely too much and for the wrong reasons. That makes them lower than a snake's belly to a lot of us. Fred does not demean us. He doesn't tell us that we don't want what is best for America, or that we are too dumb or bigoted to understand. Fred, like Ronald Reagan, is one of us, or at least seems to be.

p>If Fred can do no more than cause the demise of sound bite news and television, he will have done the country a really good turn, and if he can return a modicum of old fashioned common sense and self reliance to the American citizenry, he will be a hero indeed. br> -- Ken Shreve br> New Hampshire /p> p> Well, here we are, with the Republican rank-and-file waiting for another candidate to declare. The problem, as I see it, isn't that the declared candidates are bad -- it's that the whole process started too early. By the time someone actually gets to vote for these candidates, everyone is sick of them. br> -- Robert Nowall br> Cape Coral, Florida /p>

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