“If it weren’t for Huckabee, Fred Thompson would be President right now.”
Fred Thompson lost because Fred Thompson ran a very POOR campaign. Don’t blame Huckabee for Thompson’s failings. Also, Thompson waffled foreever and was too late getting in the campaign....that is what cost him the election.
Also, even IF he had gotten the nomination....what makes you think he could have beaten Unicorns and Butterflys in 2008? I doubt he could have. Plus, he wasn’t that well liked by the social conservative base. Either you please the socons or you loose....it is that simple.
Fred lost because he honored contractual obligations to NBC arising from the last episodes of Law and Order he shot for them, which were in reruns in the summer of 2007.
If Fred had declared timely, say June or July 2007, in time to participate in the campaign-funding rush for big-donor early money, he could have faced a lawsuit from NBC, which would have had to cancel the reruns if he'd announced.
Staying out until September cost him everything. I think of that every time I see him in one of those sad little commercials.
Unicorns and butterflies or not, it would have been doubly nice to have had an adult in the room in 2008.