Sen. Thompson on Cavuto Last Night: “I Frankly Believe the Disease Is Afraid Of You”. [Video]

For those that missed it. He’s so running.

Hot Air says next week might be the week, and Powerline has a link filled post about Thompson. There’s also this tidbit from the Powerline post:

Dick Morris argues that Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich are harming the Republican presidential race by not making their intentions clear. “Until they make their respective moves to enter or foreswear entering the primaries,” Morris argues, “they will freeze a critical segment of conservative Republicans who are withholding their affections from other suitors, waiting for Mr. Right to arrive.”

We haven’t seen anyone make this argument yet, but if it’s true then it goes exactly the opposite way of all the Thompson naysayers. The main argument against Thompson’s ability to win is that he’s coming to the fund-raising game late. But if major donors are holding out on the possibility that he might run, doesn’t that mean that there’s low-hanging fund-raising fruit waiting to be picked? And this is coming from one of the best political minds of our time, a man who surveyed the political landscape more than half a year before the midterms and declared that Democrats would take both houses. So if conservative donors are waiting for Thompson to enter so that they can give him money, doesn’t that mean that Thompson will have money when he enters?

Oh, and that “cancer is afraid of you” line fro Cavuto? Not an unreasonable theory.

References:
* Fred Thompson Interview with Cavuto Part 1 of 2 [GooTube]
* [IMAO]

Previously:
*
Fred Thompson On How To Be A Careful Conservative
* Fred Thompson For President
* Your End Of the Week Fred Thompson Fix

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