It is still early.
Fred Thompson did not announce his candidacy until early Sept. ‘07.
His campaign was not successful not only because he came across as “not particularly interested in running for president”, but only jumped in at the urging of the establishment Republicans.
The establishment wanted Thompson to get in because they felt Thompson would fit the bill for the huge block Christian evangelical Republican voters.
He didn’t. And for good reasons.
Among those good reasons were the fact that Thompson fully supported Bush’s two-state non-solution Roadmap-Phased Plan. Bush himself repeated false Islamic propaganda when he refered to Judea and Samaria as “occupied Arab land”, which it isn’t.
And always sending Condi over there trying to pressure Israel into more appeasement concessions.
At that time Huckabee was the only GOP conservative who forcefully stated that Israel should not give up Judea and Samaria. Firmly opposed spliting apart Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem.
The support for Israel among conservative Christian evangelical Republican voters is well known.
They took note of the differences in the level of support for Israel among Huckabee and the other conservative candidates.
Hopefully Sarah will run.
Palin has the ability to unite and energize all Republican voters.
Except of course the establishment folks like Bush and Rove. They were hoping Mitch Daniels would run.
I wish Fred Thompson were POTUS, truly I do.