“It has been a long time since Thompson has made a compelling reason to be in this race.”
Oh, I don’t know, I thought conservatism was a fairly compelling reason.
Another “echo-chamber” piece.
You thought wrong, conservatism is no longer a compelling reason to vote for a candidate in the 21st century Republican party. This primary has now made it official, conservative candidates need not apply. The most liberal candidates have led the GOP field from day one, and the most conservative candidates were almost totally ignored.
I have voted Republican since my first vote in 1960, and I went though this same kind of disappointment for two decades before Reagan brought conservatives into the party's mainstream. But I won't go through it again, AFAIC the Republican party no longer exists, and it won't actually exist much longer as a viable party unless it turns back to Reagan era conservative policies based on traditional Christian principles.