Fred Thompson's Message to Iowa, and to the Nation

Fred Thompson has posted his final message to Iowa voters up on YouTube. It's seventeen minutes long, but it's worth listening to every minute of it. This video apparently will be seen only on the web - Thompson doesn't have the money to air it on TV in Iowa. To put it simply, it's the best campaign speech I've seen for years, probably since Reagan. It gives me that same feeling that Reagan did - this guy gets it, gets conservatism, and gets us. Thompson also explains quite clearly why he is not playing the media's game this election cycle. Peter Robinson, who was a speech writer for President Reagan, wrote the following on NRO's The Corner early this morning:

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.

Watch the video, and prepare to be impressed.