So Thompson supporters...

[Person Man]

Yeah. They support Bush, nobody else does.

[Person Man]

You know that this will be as difficult as getting Bush himself a third term.

[Person Man]

Uhhh...it was a seperation of 16 years between  the two men....and worse, we are coming off of a disasterous 2nd term. I think that explains enough.

Basically you are talking about reevaluating an ideology after 16 years when  it got 38% of the vote and reevaluating an ideology immediate when it has only 29% of the vote.

Of course Freddy can succed if he totally discredits progressive thought left of Ben Nelson or John McCain, basically destroying the Democratic Party....which no one has done in 150 years...and someone ALMOST discredited and killed a party, ideology and movement in this country 75 years ago, but he was working off the worst man-made disaster in human history and still failed.

[Person Man]

And Ronald Reagan was also a huge fan and basically a clone of Barry Goldwater.  Your point?

Come on now! Don't disgrace Barry Goldwater by comparing him to Ronald Reagan.

I know what he was saying, but AuH2O wasn't a theocratic hick.

[Person Man]

Well, maybe someone else's conservativism but not Bush's conservatism, which Thompson may well possess.

[Person Man]

After Reagan's presidency, with the fresh memory of Iran Contra, the media assumed that the Republican nomination was posioned, and the Democrats were sure to win.

Sure enough, when the Republicans and Democrats had settled on their candidates, the polls showed that Michael Dukakis had a commanding lead over George Bush Sr. In fact, most voters viewed themselves as conservatives, and were voting for Dukakis cause they thought he was more conservative.

A good campaign from Bush and a standard Democratic campaign from Dukakis led to Bush winning in '88.

Not really. Reagan was still in the 50s. Bush is in the 20s.

[Person Man]

Lol....yeah. It is quite asinine to think Thompson can make it in the climate. Personally, I don't think there should be a democratic party if they can't even beat Thompson in 08.

[Person Man]

Those are both pretty much what I was going to say next....and what if Dukakis was considered conservative in the begining? It just made the country feel that he was a liar when they found out he was not. Same thing is going to happen to Thompson when they find out he was for choice and campaign finance reform and yet no longer is.