This whole conversation also illustrates what trouble the GOP is in this year. Republican voters are very underwhelmed by their field, and of the five candidates who could have been considered a front-runner at one point this season, only Thompson wouldn't necessarily attract strong opposition from some part of the Republican base.
Romney is a Mormon New Englander who was once pro-choice, which will rile the Christian right. Giuliani is a pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-gun control New Yorker. Huckabee raised taxes as governor and has been the most critical of the Iraq war of any GOP candidate, except Paul. And McCain has been anathema to mainstream conservatives and GOP activists for a while - campaign finance, immigration, and 2000 (when he positioned himself as the moderate alternative to the conservative Bush) saw to that. It's ironic that Thompson, the man most acceptable to the base, has run, by far, the worst campaign of the five.
Obama, Edwards, and Clinton would all face problems in the general election too, but I don't see any of them having to fight a fire in the rear like the GOP nominee will need to do.
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