Fred Thompson took a pass on his own candidacy in 2008; he didn’t run so much as he strolled.
Y’know, another one of the great big media-fed lies about Fred Thompson was his laziness. I remember when that was thrown in his face during a Larry King interview and Jeri Thompson reeled off all the things Fred did to keep current, the pace of which would’ve sent most of us too total exhaustion, dismissing the allegation as rightfully bull$hit.