A Senator with a dismal attendance record who is limousined to his red pick up truck parked just out of view so he can look folksy as he pulls into the Capital parking lot with his Hollywood style trophy wife on his arm.

 Conservatives sure like to bash "Hollywood Liberals"; but they LOVE low level actors.  

as something the country desperately needs, then you got it.  However, allow me to disagree.  Fred Thompson is another 'family values' guy who would throw you and your providers in jail or at least fine the bejesus out of you.  What does he bring to the table that is fresh and innovative?

I guess it's part of the definition of conservative that you can never move on.  

Be prepared for disappointment. Already Thompson has become known as "Phone it in Fred."

Thompson is a lightweight hypocrite and is the last thing America needs.  He's the darling of the right for some reason but knocked his girlfriend up and had to get married while still in high school and later dumped his first wife for a trophy wife 24 years younger.  He's now calling for eliminating any non-essential  government service, yet he lived in public housing while going to college.  He's supposed to be a Washington outsider but spend most of his career as a Washington lobbyist who's crowing achievement was legislation to de-regulate the S&L industry that ended up costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.  It would be very scary to have this guy as President.