The Second Coming of Reagan?

Reagan’s men are backing - an actor

Ronald Reagan’s closest allies are throwing their weight behind the White House bid by the late president’s fellow actor, Fred Thompson.

The film star and former Republican senator from Tennessee will this week use a speech in the heart of Reagan country, in southern California, to woo party bigwigs in what insiders say is the next step in his coming out as a candidate.

A key figure in the Reagan inner circle has now given his seal of approval to Mr Thompson, best known as a star of the television crime drama Law and Order….

…Mr Reagan himself, asked whether his training as an actor had prepared him for the presidency, once replied: “I don’t see how any fellow that wasn’t an actor could do this job.”

An actor huh? Like Hillary isn’t. The GOP must do everything in its power to put aside its petty differences and put forward the best conservative candidate that has the ‘right stuff’ to defeat Hillary. Like the saga of the Romans Republic and Empire, you can pinpoint those dramatic moments in a nation’s development where history was changed and the course of a people was in the balance. I believe the 2008 election to be such a time. We can choose the road of retreat around the world, socialized medicine, speech codes and ‘hate crime’ legislation, the abandonment of the Middle East to terrorists and rogue states, the advancement of the homosexual agenda, another Ginsburg or two on the Supreme Court and the continued flow of millions of illegal aliens into our society and consultation with the French on our foreign policy.

Or we can hope for something better. Is Thompson that clear choice and the man to do the job? It’s too early to tell but increasingly it is apparent that he may be the next torchbearer of the Reagan Legacy.