Yes, aristeides, Thompson announced he would run, but that was before his 38 year old daughter died in January. I suspect his heart is broken, sounds like his spirit might be as well. Who can blame him? Remember how John Glenn thwarted him on the Fund Raising Hearings.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/05/campaign.finance/<
Here's a Thompson quote from the article:
"..."Thompson took note of some of the pitched battles between Republicans and Democrats during the hearings. "We could revisit all of those old wounds and heartaches, and throw some more stones at each other today if we choose to do so," he said. "But I'm hopeful that now we can put both of these reports before the American people and let them be judged in light of the record that they remember ... There are some pretty important things that we do agree on."
Thompson went to Washington thinking good would triumpth over evil. John Glenn showed him different.
YaYal23, you are absolutely right here. Edmund Burke put it this way, "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." Well, Burke could have said "for good men to do little." If so, he could have been forecasting the future Fred Thompson. Did you notice how Thompson seemed to have more fire in the belly against Nixon in 1973 than he ever had with the Democrats and "hero" Glenn in 1997? It was really a silly, embarrassing performance by this physical giant of a man. Fred now knows that in a vacuum like he prefers, EVIL wins every time. Ask Judge Pickering for confirmation.