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Many YouTube commenters were strongly moved by Thomson’s Reaganesque speech, and so was National Review’s Peter Robinson:
While the other contenders are frantically saturating the Iowa airwaves with 30- and 60-second attack ads—Romney is guiltiest, if only because he’s richest—Thompson has sat himself down, looked into a camera, and spoken for a quarter of an hour, calmly and straightforwardly making his case. I myself find this impressive—in a way, moving. Thompson seems to have stepped out of the eighteenth century. He trusts voters to think. And if the comments on YouTube are at all representative, plenty of people agree. ...While we await Mr. York’s next dispatch, take a look at the Thompson video. Politics as, from time to time at least, they really ought to be.
If Fred Thompson keeps speaking like this, I think he has a good chance of winning the GOP nomination.
Scott D
It was, after all, his speech in support of Barry Goldwater in the final week of the campaign that launched Ronald Reagan on his way. Could the Republican nominee—whoever he is—take note of this as a more effective campaign strategy than simply pointing out Hillary’s obvious flaws?
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