[perfect_rovian_storm]

Revisionist history from a Mittbot. How surprising...

[andy58-in-nh]

In the final analysis, Fred Thompson ended his own campaign by way of disinterest: for whatever reason, he just didn't want it. I think most of us can sympathize with that decision, made by a good man with a good heart, who perhaps did not wish to subject himself to the degradation that has become part and parcel of our Presidential campaigns.

For what it's worth: the smartest, most well-connected old-school newspaperman in Washington was Robert Novak, and he had reason to believe that Mitt Romney's people were, at the time purposely trying to create a wedge between Mr. Thompson and John McCain.

He published his thoughts on the matter in his column of 1/5/08, and having read his work for over 30 years, I inferred between the lines that he had a good source informing his suspicion. He almost always did.