Thompson was an absolute failure on the Glenn Committee, showed no backbone and is best as an actor.
Let's see....that was in 1998, which resulted in the indictments of Democratic fund-raisers Charlie Trie, Maria Hsia and the charges filed against fund-raisers Johnny Chung and Yogesh Gandhi?
Considering that Janet Reno's Justice Department would pursue NO investigations of ANYTHING that incriminated the Democrat Party OR the Klintoon, the 8-7 partisan vote out of that committee was all that could be expected. In fact, the Democrats didn't even sign on to the Report produced, but instead produced their own minority report, which denied ANY Chinese money influence on the Klintoon election.
Yeah, if that's all you have for a negative on Thompson, there's nothing there.
Thompson can win nationally, no other current Republican candidate who could be considered a Conservative has the potential to win a National election right now.