This is cool:

A few weeks ago, Fred Thompson exited the race for President. In the wake of that decision, the FredHeads and the members of DraftFredThompson.com engaged in a whole lot of soul-searching and vigorous discussion as to what to do next. Fred’s candidacy may have come to an end, but our faith in the principles that originally drew us to Fred was as strong as ever.

The product of that soul-searching and vigorous discussion is Conservatives for the Advancement of the Reagan Coalition, a new organization formed to advance the key conservative principles articulated by men like Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and Fred Thompson.

Of course, there are plenty of places on the ‘net to discuss Reaganite principles. While we’ll certainly continue to do that, we will at the same time be moving forward with our plan to pound the pavement and raise the funds to ELECT candidates who share our principles and DEFEAT candidates who don’t. If you share our faith in those principles, and have an interest in working to get them put into practice, we invite you to JOIN US.

I think this new “Reagan Coalition” could do some great things considering that the same group of likeminded patriots pushed for and convinced Sen. Fred Thompson to enter the Presidential race.  This group of activist and outspoken citizens could even partner with the recently formed “Reagan21” coalition, a bicameral group of legislators in Congress who have similar goals of limited government and economic freedom.

With grassroots-generated and legislator-generated groups such as these vetting future candidates, as well as established institutional stalwarts such as the Club For Growth and others (like the National Taxpayers Union), we could have some very powerful tools at our disposal to recreate conservative (or classical liberal) government from the bottom up.  These kinds of groups are great in pooling the thoughts and resources of many into solid actions that can be intensely focused on particular candidates and causes with money and support.

I would like to see groups such as these, partnered with their respective conservative counterparts in each chamber (the Republican Study Committee in the House, which has done yeoman’s work in advancing conservative budget alternatives and other rock-solid legislation, and the Republican Steering Committee in the Senate, headed by the “Conservative Voice in the Senate,” Sen. Jim DeMint) become an outspoken coalition whose stamp of approval is heavily influential in Republican primary races and general election races, as well as keeping legislators’ feet to the fire once in office.