It is hard to imagine anyone being more âin over his headâ for the office he holds than the current occupant of the WO. I am not from TN but the impression I always had of Fred is that he became frustrated with how thing are done in Congress and came to consider it a waste of time in the current political climate.
I think his 2008 run for POTUS was nothing more than to help elect his friend John McCain. Fred distracted votes away from those running against McCain while their funds ran out. His 2008 campaign like his senate career was at best a yawn. IOW I don't think that beyond running interference for McCain in the primaries he was interested in being POTUS. Politically Thompson was like McCain. The Fred Hype was wishful thinking on a lot of peoples part who had very short term memory as well.