Fred Thompson’s entrance into this race is only now revealing the damage to the Republican chances of a win against the Demorats. He took votes away from more viable candidates that and allowed McCain to win S.C.. Thompson is the Ross Perot of this race. We’re screwed!!
Who?
What viable candidate? Huckabee? Huckabee’s history as governor is catching up with him, that’s all.
*rolls eyes* Not even close. Perot was a populist who only bi*ched and moaned about the state of the country and never offered any solutions of his own. Fred offered solutions for all the problems the conservatives complain about, though his were based on folks doing for themselves within their states, when the solutions were best handled there, instead of at the federal level.
Perot ran as a third party candidate in the General Election, so took votes away from the Republican candidate, allowing x42 to gain the Presidency with only 43% of the popular vote. Fred had as much right as anyone else to put his name in contention with the other candidates in the primaries. If folks had wanted to vote for McCain, Huckabee or Romney they would have done that anyway.