Working For A Living…

Posting is slow because I’m working on a rush job for a client – a campaign website.  And (gasp!) it’s for a DEMOCRAT!

But if it makes conservatives reading this feel any better, I’m drinking from my Fred! mug while I do it.  Funny thing is I thought I was registered Republican, but I just got a voter registration card with my new polling place on it and I’m registered Independent.  Doubtless Bush enraged me at some point and I was motivated to bail out from the party – but as I’ve said many times, I’m conservative.  I tend to vote Republican, but let’s face it, Conservative is to Republican as classic literature is to books.  So far, Fred! is looking like my guy:

Getting the public to rally around finding solutions to our military readiness, government mismanagement, and exploding entitlements is a key goal for Fred:

But he says he thinks the public is looking for a different kind of leadership. “I think a president could go to the American people and say, ‘Here’s what we need to be doing. And I’m willing to go halfway. Now you have to make them [the opposition] go halfway.’ ” The approach Thompson says he’s contemplating is one that will step on many sensitive political toes. When he says “we’re getting a free ride” fighting a necessary war in Iraq with an undersized military establishment, “wearing out our people and equipment,” it sounds like a criticism of the president and the Pentagon. When he says he would have opposed adding the prescription drug benefit to Medicare, “a $17 trillion add-on to a program that’s going bankrupt,” he is fighting the bipartisan judgment of the last Congress. When he says the FBI is perhaps incapable of morphing itself into the smart domestic security agency the country needs, he is attacking another sacred cow.

Fred believes we can’t sustain the status quo:

“Nobody in Congress or on either side in the presidential race wants to deal with it,” Thompson said. “So we just rock along and try to maintain the status quo. Republicans say keep the tax cuts; Democrats say keep the entitlements. And we become a less unified country in the process, with a tax code that has become an unholy mess, and all we do is tinker around the edges.”

Preach it, brother!