In the presidential straw poll at the 2006 Southern Republican Leadership Conference held in Memphis I cast a write-in vote for Fred Thompson. That might make me the first person in America to have voted for Fred for President. So you can imagine my disappointment Saturday when it became quite apparent that absent a chaotic convention where the nomination comes from the floor (still a remote possibility), Fred Thompson will not be the Republican standard bearer this year.
Actually, Bob… I think a chaotic convention is the path we’re on. I simply don’t see a clear leader, in the race thusfar, and I note a growing concern from all corners of the Republican party about the people we’re being asked to nominate. Interestingly, the one person running that nobody has any serious objection to is Thompson. Under those conditions, it seems to me Thompson has a better chance than any of them of actually walking away with the nomination from a brokered convention.
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