“Sure, Fred will probably endorse McCain. But Tancredo probably endorsed Fred or Hunter also.”
If Fred Thompson does very poorly in Iowa (which he won’t) and drops out of the race (which won’t happen, despite wishful thinking from the Romney campaign), I don’t think he will endorse Mitt Romney. Unless, of course, Mitt not only offers to pay off all of Thompson’s campaign debt (as Mitt did in order to “convince” Tancredo to endorse him-—I guess Mitt forgot to pay off Tancredo’s campaign team, which refused to endorse Mitt), but also name Thompson as his runningmate and convince Thompson that he would indeed govern as a conservative and not as the mushy Massachusetts liberal that he was as governor from 2003-2007.
Fred wouldn’t do that, and if he did, it would destroy his reputation and character completely, as it did to Judas Tancredo.