[lentulusgracchus]

Thompson has no executive experience.....Thompson was in the senate but did not distinguish himself as a legislator, either. There is n o reason that Thompson could actually do anything.

So I guess if Fred Thompson is the only halfway-viable conservative alternative to a liberal who embodies the experience you describe, having spent years building socialism in one State, then our default choice is the liberal?

Your reasoning doesn't add up to a winner for conservative Republicans.

[ClaireSolt]

Ideology is only part of the picture.