Make a list of where Fred was on the issues, long term and historically, then do the same for Mitt, and that will answer your question there.
As far as “lacking balls” Did they impeach Bush?
Precedent is a bitch, Fred Thompson, accomplished Constitutional scholar and attorney knows that.
Presidents, on the both sides of the isle (got to take the good with the bad), are better off for his efforts.
Oh, and I wore my Cole Haans to our state fair this year at lunch one day...
I don't understand your point about Bush. Incoherent.
As far as "issues" go, there's a football field's worth of difference in being a Senator and 1 of 100, and being a Republican governor of a blue state who can't stop the Commie health bill, but settles for weakening it and getting what he can.
I guess I don't judge him as harshly as the malcontents because I've admired him since the Olympics and thought he'd make a great president.
Like Ann Coulter says when people accuse him of flip-flopping..."I don't care that he flip-flops if he flops my way."