if Thompson would consider being Rudy's VP, he'd lose my vote. Not that he has my vote (I'm still undecided, but I want Thompson in the race if for no other reason than to end the "inevitability" of Rudy and show that the nation is ready to elect a real conservative.
If we elect Rudy, we'll be a generation before we get a shot at a conservative anywhere. It took 40 years to get us to the place where we could get a nominally conservative congress elected in 1994.
A Rudy/Thompson ticket IMO would be a winning team for the Republican's in the 2008 general election.