I was a Fred Thompson guy the last go around. Others were Huckabee fanatics. Neither side would give an inch. South Carolina rolled around and it was all over. We done ourselves in and McCain marched away with it....
History repeats itself...
Nail, meet head.
Thompson had one job to do. Split the conservative vote in SC, the decider state, enabling McCain to squeak out a 33-30 win over Huck there. Bad times.
Fred was too close to his recovery from cancer and looked tired with no "fire in the belly".
I saw him on the tube the other night and he looked so much more robust that I thought, "If he looked like this the last time around, things may have turned out differently".
As they say....timing is everything.