Fred Thompson's Motivations

This is a good post on the reasons Fred Thompson has given for his possible foray into the Republican nomination scene. Particularly interesting to me is Thompson being motivated to run by "the long-term fiscal crisis spawned by the aging of the American population and the runaway costs of health care."

Since I'm of the generation that will be hurt the most by the unsustainable spending on these programs I'm curious to see if he puts any new proposals on the table. The post speculates that if Thompson does put forth new proposals he could expect to have them labeled as "risky schemes" in a replay of Bob Dole's attack on Steve Forbes back in 1996. While this could happen I think we are getting closer to a time where the voting populace realizes that the riskiest scheme of all is maintaining the status quote for funding many of the governments largest programs. The question is turning (at least I hope it is) from whether or not we should make changes to what changes should we make.

Though, for those who do seek to avoid "risky schemes" we do offer a Dole-Kemp '96 shirt.