I’d love to see Fred Thompson give it another shot.
The problem in the GOP runs deep and the man who described himself as a “friend” of John McCain and is a protégé of the East Tennessee GOP Establishment (the recently deceased Howard Baker and Lamar Alexander etc. etc.) isn’t the man to run for president.
In 2008 Thompson ran for the purpose he was needed for.
He split conservative votes in SC with other candidates like Huckabee so that McCain could emerge in first place.
Fred Thompson is an actor and a GOPe operative who postures the tough guy, but is really a Romney-McCain-McConnell-Boehner on the inside.