Road Sassy

This and That.

I’ve been AWOL again! Lotsa work to do, had to work the last two weekends to get the job ready first for the plumbers and then for the electricians, had a drain problem in the basement there and after it was fixed I had to jump in and lay the concrete where the drain was dug up so they could use it again without delay, now while the electricians do their stuff I have to go do another little job I kinda promised a few weeks ago. Tomorrow I have a day off! But you should see the mess my place is in, hasn’t been cleaned for nearly three weeks, ah well, no rest for the wicked.

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I’ve been wanting to post on Fred Thompson who I think would be the best President of the current crop of over ambitious wannabe’s. He seems to be very popular in the blogosphere, on the right side of course.
Good article today at American Thinker, The Anti-Soundbite Candidate.

But Fred Thompson is perhaps the most substantative candidate to run for President in many years. He has taken the time to think about what should be the relationship between the government and the governed. He has framed his thoughts within the context of a set of bedrock conservative principles that animates his thinking and generates sound ideas about where America should be headed.

There is a heft to Thompson, a seriousness of purpose that none of the other candidates can match. It is most pronounced during the debates where Thompson’s answers to questions are more subtle and nuanced than those of his rivals. His sometimes laconic style zings his opponents with brutal accuracy. Often, the candidate will answer a question by stating “Yep” or “Nope” and pause a few seconds to gather his thoughts. What follows is almost always coherent and is informed by years of experience in government.

Transterrestrial Musings has an engineer’s take on the ‘Fred is lazy’ accusation.

Now, I don’t think that Fred Thompson is lazy. I just think that, despite the southern drawl, which many (mistakenly, as anyone who has worked with smart NASA employees and contractors in Houston, Huntsville and the Cape would know) think is a mark of a slow mentality, that he works smart, and cheap. Robert Heinlein once wrote that: “Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”

I believe that.

I don’t want a president, or a presidential candidate, who is frenetically scurrying around, appearing to be doing something, particularly two years before the swearing in. If he’s really a conservative (as he claims to be, though I’m not necessarily), I’m perfectly happy with a president who, when demanded to do something, just stands there. And as a libertarian, opposed to big government, I’m happy to have a president who will think before acting, and who believes that the first instinct should not be to pass yet another federal law.

Now just take yourselves over to Hot Air for a video of Jeri Thompson answering questions. She is more articulate and more direct than any one you’ll find on the Dem side.
I think Fred is still in with a good chance of winning, there’s a long way to go yet. Even Alan Sullivan is starting to take him seriously.

Update. David Limbaugh endorses Fred.
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Every week I read Norm’s blogger profile and usually I’ll find myself nodding in agreement with most of the answers given by quite impressive people only to be brought up short by something so obviously not thought through and there goes my high estimation of the person in question. Often it’s to do with some Socialist or Marxist ‘wisdom’ that has or should have been thoroughly discredited by events over the last hundred years, but this week .Linda Grant, answers the question, ‘What do you consider to be the main threat to the future peace and security of the world?’ with, ‘Climate change, duh’. Well, duh to you to. It’s a scam folks, brought to you by the same folks who think the EU, the UN and all the other anti-Anglosphere organisations who want to control us are the future of mankind. She should spend a little time reading the excellent series ‘The Deniers’ published in The National Post.

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