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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
The acting background freaked me out for a while, but I'm over it.
What action could you have seen behind the talk other than the policy statements that he's put out on the issues?
Sincerely, what actions have we seen from anyone running on the Republican side that worked in a positive manner? (I mean the Huckabee attack video on Romney that he pulled buy showed was an action, I suppose, but not one that I think worked for anyone.)
Isn't it pretty much all talk and posturing from all of them?
(And, obviously I'm biased as I admitted, but it seems to me that Thompson has been working harder to actually articulate real principals and policies than the other GOP dudes, like the whole 15 minute video from the day before yesterday vs. the 30 second ads of the others.)
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Well, by action I meant doing something. Others are pointing to their records, which you can take as evidence (Ron Paul, for instance, tilting at windmills, or Romney, who makes me think there are lots of seesaws in my home state of Massachusetts, or Clinton, who actually has less time in the White House than others with the same type role she had). Thompson hasn't trotted out a record, that I've seen.
Leaves me wondering. I don't get the sense he wants the job. One question I've asked every political candidate I've met - Why do you want the job? Those who can't answer (and you'd be surprised how many there are, particularly at the local and state levels) don't get my vote.