"There are a lot of reasons I support Linc. We agree on most issues"
-- Fred Thompson on ultra-RINO Linc Chafee (who had a voting record to the left of many Democrats), endorsing him for the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, April 2006
Fred Thompson also was a strong supporter of John McCain, and had been instrumental in passing McCain/Feingold. It was hard for a lot of people here at FR to overcome that history and support him.
I figure that if Rick Perry joins the race, then we’ll find out if Palin is going to support him directly or not. Until then, we’ll all have fun guessing what is going to happen next.
It does distract from the candidates who are already in the race — hopefully, we won’t go through an entire summer and end up in October pining for new entries into the race, like 2008. In my opinion, that’s how we ended up stuck with John McCain.