I agree. Thompson didn’t do what it takes, while others did.
Like not being liberal enough.
No. I guess not. Fred was not complicit in push polls trashing other candidates, or distributing fliers on election day distorting other candidate's records, or repeatedly changing his opinion to be what he thought the voters would buy, or calling a press conference to say he would not run a negative ad which he then showed to the press and wound up running by "mistake" anyway, or starting rumors about another candidate withing 24 hours of a vote that the candidate would be dropping out and supporting another candidate, or pandering to states or regions by telling them whatever they wanted to hear....
I could go on, but there is no point. If this is what it takes, Thompson has not done it. The others have.