Unlike Hillary who went on a "listening tour" with voters who primarily told her what she wanted to hear, Fred is listening to the Hoover Institution, the Heritage Foundation, and TownHall.com readers.

He is the best communicator the GOP field has had in its ranks since Reagan ran for re-election. He is equally at ease with shoppers from Wal-Mart as much as a state dinner with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Who wouldn't be a bad Veep nomination for him.)

If you listen to all the insider talk around the blogosphere, talk radio, and the best sellers' lists you will find strategists who will give you a list of ten reasons why Fred Thompson wouldn't make the best candidate. (Most of the people saying these things of course already have ties or leaning strongly towards one of the candidates already in the field.)

The truth of the polls tells a very different story though.

If you want the toughness of Giuliani but can't take the baggage of cross-dressing, three marriages, anti-marriage, pro-abortion, and highly questionable on judges; if you want clear-headed straight talk of McCain - but without the frantic sometimes pathological mood swings, and someone who doesn't think political speech should be stifled - but encouraged; if you want the radiant intelligence, and clearly socially conservative positions of Romney - but are afraid to be called bigot for not feeling comfortable in voting for him, then for these reason's and a dozen more - Fred's your man!

By writing his weekly op-eds and coming directly to "We The People" Fred is willing to do something that the handlers of all the others have yet to really turn them loose to do - and that is - to give us a real slice of who they are. His communication style alone shouldn't be the reason that people vote for him. But for many they will want to even more so because of it.

At the end of the day if extremists know they will face the "wait and decide" responses from an Obama/Clinton administration vs. the "don't even think about it" presence of Fred in the White House - who do you think the terrorists would fear more?

For the GOP primary voters it’s all about National Security (hear the rumble...), keeping the economy strong (listen there it goes again...), and standing up for the social and moral fiber that makes America strong of spirit - and not just of might (even closer now...).

The rumbling footsteps are real. "They" hear them distinctly, and hopefully for America... soon... we will too!