It is very convenient that he NOW disavows campaign finance reform. And he IS very good friends with McCain and it is most likely McCain would get a prominent position in a Thompson presidency IF he actually could get elected. It’s funny that Thompson has always played the same bipartisan BS like McCain to begin with and here people think we need this man who has not shone in the Senate and his main claim to fame is that he is one of the few Republicans in Hollyweird and that supposedly assures that the public outside the GOP will somehow be impressed and that makes him electable! No friggin way.
IIRC, Fred disavowed it years ago, towards the end of his second Senate term (i.e. before Jan. 2003).