Fred Thompson Running

He has to be, apparently he quit his job at Law and Order, started an exploratory committee, and lets not forget the most important thing of all, he is still polling higher than many declared republicans, despite not formally announcing.

He's begun campaigning, sort of... In a video response to Micheal Moore's new film sicko, Fred Thompson tells the film maker to seek help at a mental institution, all while holding a large, ridiculous Cuban cigar. Check it out



But what do we know about Fred Thompson? For instance, why did he quit the senate, the most powerful law making body in the world, for Law and Order? Pay too low? Not a taste for Government? what is it that made him quit that job, but go for this one?

NPR ran a story that saying he "[...] isn't keen to do the hard work of getting elected." If that's the case it might explain his step out of congress, and the slow start his presidential campaign.

Either way he enters a crowded field, and will have to fight the rest of the Republican candidates for political talent and donations. But more importantly, he's the only staunch conservative and the one most likely to carry on the ideological legacy of George W. Bush. Personally, I think this is an asset in the primaries, and POISON in the general. While Republican rank and file might be clamoring for another Reagan, America wants change, and their thirst will be quenched.