Obviously Fred does NOT "get" federalism if he's pushing for this abomination. I'd have more respect if he simply said he wanted to amend the Constitution to establish a national popular vote, but instead, he wants to go around it and have a handful of state thumb their nose at the system that the founders set up.
I hope the rest of the Fredheads have contacted Fred Thompson and let him know how upset they are at him selling out, but since he's now promoting their guy Gingrich it seems all is forgiven. (and IMO, his support for Gingrich is canceled out by the fact he endorsed McCain over J.D. Hayworth last year... Sarah Palin took hell for it and she had an excuse that she owed him. Fred had NO excuse and yet there was little criticism of him for it)
Conservatives are going to continue to get screwed over by politicians until they stand up and speak out when a politician sells out.
Anyway, what finally won me over to Fred (briefly) was the way he smacked down the smarmy woman reporter in Iowa with the global warming question. At some point you've got to ask yourself "Who is the best of the viable candidates available?"; not "Who is the closest to perfection?"