[MRM]

For all of the people pining for Thompson to join, throw your support to McCain. They are almost identical on the issues, they vote together and are within a percentage point or two of each other on the "vote with us" scales published by conservative groups and business groups, and they happen to be best friends. Word is that if Thompson decides not to run it is out for deference to and respect for his friend John McCain. In the interests of full disclosure, I have long supported McCain and preferred him over Bush in 2000. But I think that as people look at him closer and the rest of the Republican field wears on people, he will start looking better and better to a lot of people.

One final thought. As a former Wisconsinite who lived through several of Tommy T's interminable terms as governor, all I can say is it is a strange disease that strikes men who look in the mirror and think they see presidential material.