"[Fred Thompson] does have a gravitas that seems to be missing in the rest of the pack . . . both parties' packs, that is. Try the Gedankenexperiment of asking yourself which of the current 20 candidates or so you can imagine addressing the nation the day after the biological/radiological/chemical attack on Atlanta -- just visualize it and hear their voices, and then tell me that Fred Thompson doesn't seem the right person for the next 4 or 8 years."
“which of the current 20 candidates or so you can imagine addressing the nation the day after the biological/radiological/chemical attack on Atlanta — just visualize it and hear their voices, and then tell me that Fred Thompson doesn’t seem the right person for the next 4 or 8 years.”
Visualize it and “hear their voices”...what you’ve described is a job for a walk the walk person. Sorry, I cannot see Fred Thompson in that role.
It sounds like a job for a man will REAL military experience...I definitely CAN see a man like Duncan Hunter.