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What's the Difference? Gray Liberal Mush or Vivid Conservative Facts

by Mike Thompson

191 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #02-0948; ISBN 1-55395-234-0; US$19.50, C$23.99, EUR15.60, £10.90

Mike Thompson, Florida's nationally acclaimed "Mr. Conservative," unfolds a serious, insightful and witty comparison of conservative and liberal politics, history, language, ideas and culture.

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About the Book

Since the 1960s, Mike Thompson has been recognized as Florida's "Mr. Conservative." He has headed the bipartisan Florida Conservative Union; led Miami's Republican Party; worked closely with Ronald Reagan in his historic 1976 run for the presidency; written and produced eight nationally televised foreign-policy documentaries; reigned as South Florida's most popular radio/TV weekend talk-show host, and operated a successful advertising agency.

In his fact-filled new book from Trafford Publishing What's the Difference? Mike Thompson gleefully separates gray liberal mush from vivid conservative facts -- and reveals, among other things:

How Rockefellerites in 1984 staged a bloodless White House coup and forced President Ronald Reagan to eat crow

Why President Nixon's burglars inside Watergate were patriots compared with his many enemies in the street.

How President Clinton constantly blackmailed U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno over her wild private life.

Why "good" Muslims target all Christians and Jews.

Why reparations for slavery would turn U.S. and European people into slaves themselves.

Why public schools in America fight booze, tobacco, reckless driving and drugs--but promote homosexuality.

How gun-grabbers turned England into a land of fearless armed criminals.

Why little-known Antonio Gramsci is more dangerous than Karl Marx.

How the Electoral College may perpetuate conservative White House rule in the "Two Americas."
How Woodrow Wilson's elitist tricks 90 years ago still haunt America.

How the federal government soon will make you pay hundreds (perhaps thousands) of dollars more in order to keep watching all your "regular" TV sets.

Words and phrases that enrich or impoverish your English.

Why Miami, Florida, differs from Miami, Oklahoma.

Why the University of Miami's Donna Shalala is a college president considered too liberal by the ACLU.

Checklist to determine if "W" was correct about "Evil Axis" nations.

Communists who call themselves "Christians."

Why Americans were revolutionaries and the French were simply revolting.

Why cultural diversity equals cultural perversity.

Why the South insists it didn't fight "civil war" with the North.

How fast-fading pop star Michael Jackson "repealed" Mendel's Law and became the biggest racist in American showbiz.

Why normal human beings still prefer sex to cooking.

About the Author

A native Miamian, Mike Thompson was given a mouthful of a name at birth: Denham Michael Burgess Thompson. ("Denham" for Captain Denham," his paternal Grand Cayman Island grandfather who sailed a Caribbean cargo vessel for decades.)

Graduated in 1961 from the University of Miami with honors in history, Mike Thompson became a copy editor and news editor for The Miami News, but resigned at age 25 to run for Congress against liberal Democrat icon Dante Fascell. Mike narrowly lost the election and a rematch in 1968, but kept on his political course for the next three decades. In that period he:

Was elected four times as Republican state committeeman for Dade County, Florida's most populous county (now called "Miami-Dade");

Was elected four times as chairman of the bipartisan Florida Conservative Union;

Was nominated by the Republican Party for both the Florida Senate and the lieutenant governorship of the state;

Was appointed public-communications officer of the "War on Crime" by Florida's first 20th Century Republican governor, Claude R. Kirk, Jr.;

Served as Florida's first federal-state liaison officer in Washington;

Was named Greater Miami chairman of the Reagan for President Campaign Committee (1976);

Was selected as a delegate to three national Republican conventions;

Served as spokesman and advertising agent for the Anita Bryant campaign to repeal Dade county first "gay rights" ordinance;

From 1968 to 1999, Mike Thompson was senior vice-president then president and owner of Miami's venerable Long Advertising Agency. he also has co-hosted Florida's Emmy Award-winning To The Point, a Sunday night-live public-affairs production on WCIX-TV, Miami. Thompson has hosted his own top-rated weekly talk shows on South Florida radio stations WIOD, WGBS, and WMBM and, in central Florida, WMEL. In addition, he has written and produced eight nationally televised documentaries dealing with foreign policy.

MIke Thompson and his college sweetheart, Pat, have been married since 1961. She taught elementary school for 41 years. Fully retired from his ad agency, politics and broadcasting, Mike for the past four years has kept busy writing, and by teaching social studies and English part-time in a suburban high school.

Sample Excerpts

Washington journalist Phil Brennan has just written this review for Newsmax.com, one of the most widely read news sites on the entire Wordwide Web:

ON FEBRUARY 12, 2003 CIA Director George Tenet and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Vice Admiral Lowell Jacoby revealed to a startled congressional committee that North Korea has produced an ICBM called "Taepo Dong-2" capable of striking Alaska, Hawaii and the western United States with a nuclear payload.
     That came as no surprise to a veteran conservative leader, Miamian Mike Thompson. In his book "What*s The Difference? Gray Liberal Mush of Vivid Conservative Facts" published six weeks earlier, he had reported: "North Korea soon will test Taepo Dong-2 intercontinental ballistic missiles (dreaded ICBMs), which can span the Pacific to drop nuclear bombs on the U.S. mainland."
     Knowing this kind of stuff comes as second nature to Mike Thompson, a legendary figure in Florida Republican politics who for decades has been nationally recognized as a very savvy observer of current events and a master political operative.
     In his new book, which commentator/author Pat Buchanan calls "a powerful Right punch to America*s Left," Thompson carefully and colorfully dissects liberalism in all its corrupt idiocy. And along the way, just for the heck of it, he instructs his readers on such things as the fine art of cookery, and even throws in his recipe for, uh, "Triple Banana Cheesecake." But despite such digressions he never lets up on pursuing his leftist targets, leaving them reduced to their essence--gray liberal mush.
     "It is time to oppose error, to oppose Socialists, Marxists, fascists, New Agers, moral anarchists, perverters of truth, and Chistophobes, that is those who hate Jesus," he writes in his chapter "American Revolutionaries or the Revolting French."
     "Otherwise we invite the New World Order as described by George Orwell: 'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' "
     Mike Thompson has been around a long time and has hobnobbed with some of the greatest figures in U.S. politics, including Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, and he provides some interesting glimpses of little-known incidents in the life of this republic in which he was involved. And involved he was: four times elected as Dade County*s GOP state committeeman, a candidate for Congress, lieutenant. governor, and the Florida Senate, and being campaign manager and fundraiser for countless other likeminded candidates. Mike*s history is the history of both the Florida and national Republican parties.
     In all those years Mike never lost his edge or diluted his strong views on every conceivable subject. With his keen eye he spotted the phonies and mountebanks and scoundrels who were most often the apples of the clouded eyes of the liberal mainstream media.
     I first met Mike in a Miami radio station where he was chewing up a local broadcaster named Larry King. King (who left later Florida under a very dark cloud and now reigns nightly on CNN) was busy trying to convince Mike that nominating Nelson Rockefeller was the GOP*s sole hope for victory. Mike, whose opinion of Rockefeller was on a par with his opinion of, say, Fidel Castro, sought to disabuse King of that asinine notion, later proved false with Nixon*s presidential victory that year.
     Mike picks his targets and lets fly at such sacred cows as the Federal Reserve system, reparations for slavery, Janet Reno, radical feminism, gun-controllers, militant gays, Bill Clinton, and even a former Reagan aide, Mike Deaver.
     Mike learned an awful lot during his years in politics and he shares much of it in his book, which is available from Trafford Publishing (toll free at 1-888-232-4444) and also may be purchased from Barnes & Nobles, Borders, Amazon.com and other major book retailers.

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