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!
Youd swear that with all the excitement for thompson, you'd think tom coburn was running in the race.
Thompson was a moderate to conservative senator. He's basically a bush clone in the senate, he just speaks better. And all this talk about him sweeping the nomination seems a tad presumptious. Nobody really knows who he is, he'd likely start out at the same spot as a lot of the tier 2 candidates. Lets not forget most of the talent and money is being locked up by rudy romney and mccain.