[ansel12]

I saw it differently, he seemed to be running a pretty smart campaign and was building momentum, but the media kept ambushing him at his key moments of success,with those rumors. Romney was linked to those rumors.

There are old threads here about those times.

[PapaNew]

No, if you look at the circumstances surrounding Thompson at the time, you see a guy who didn't want to be there. He had said earlier he was tired of politics (before declaring his candidacy). He looked tired. Rumor was his wife made him run. I believe it. He always looked and acted like he wished he were somewhere else.

Thompson didn't care what the opposition said or did. He had the right answers on just about everything and was very comfortable saying what he thought. If Thompson's heart and mind and been in it, he would have won the nomination and probably POTUS.