I fail to understand this bruhaha over thompson. Nobody knows who he is, i dont know what this notion of 'star' power is. Most people who watch tv rarely know the names of actors unless there big.
Even so, what the hell is so appealing about thompson? He's just a senator with an okay acu rating(86). He's never held an executive position.
have we already forgot the rule, that senators rarely are elected president?
Do you realize that not one single mayor has ever been elected as President without first holding higher office?
Try telling that to the Thompson people - they never give you any accomplishments that Thompson did when you ask them to campare it to the other candidates. They only tell you how long he's been in the Senate and put that out as accomplishment and when you tell them the only thing he managed to accomplish in the Senate was co-sponsor McCain Feingold and help McCain get elected they get all cockeyed!