Human Events has an article saying he might be:
Four years ago, Howard Dean was the heir apparent to the Democratic nomination for President and John Kerry was the guy that was almost out of money — or out of all Theresa would give him at the time. On that snowy night four years ago, John Kerry came from about 1% in the polls to winning the Iowa Caucuses. If there was going to be an upset that night, the “pundits†thought it would be a win for John Edwards. Nobody and I mean nobody thought that John Kerry would be the guy. It could be that kind of night for Fred Thompson.
Fred has been doing a lot of running here and there in Iowa lately. He is polling third in some polls. With the amount of support I see for Fred on conservative web sites, and the disdain for Romney and Huckabee, I find it hard to believe that either of those two can really be the selection of primary voters.
Seth Godin notes that primary voters are different:
Primary voters pay attention. They need far less yelling than the typical consumer, and many of them will go out of their way to poke around.
We have poked around in Romney’s past and Huckabee’s past and found things we have a hard time accepting. Thompson’s past has some blemishes, but overall, there is a history of consistent conservatism. And that, in my opinion, is what Republican primary voters are looking for.
Hat Tip: brkcmo’s blog at Blogs for Fred
