And the reason that he isn’t endorsing anyone is to leave himself open so that any of the candidates would be able to pick him for VP:

Back in March of 07 at the CPAC convention in DC several former Fred Thompson Congressional staffers told me Fred Thompson was thinking about a run. Some of his Tennessee cronies had been talking him up too.
I reported first that he was eyeing a White House bid. At the time several insiders told me OFF THE RECORD that it was largely a trial ballon to guage his popularity and float his name as a possible vice presidential nominee. I was sworn to silence.
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He has not said who he will endorse. He is friends with John McCain. But if he doesn’t throw his support behind anyone …it makes it easier to be picked by everyone.

Who knows if this is true or not but if it is, Thompson wasted a great opportunity to aim higher than he thought he could and turn this country away from it’s current course of bloated government and the wasteful spending of our tax dollars. He could have lead a movement but I guess he wasn’t interested in that. It’s too bad because we are missing that type of leadership as our current crop of presidential candidates indicate. We need someone who really will be a standard bearer of the principles that we believe in: smaller government, a strong military and a concern for life and it’s too bad if Thompson didn’t get that and was only in this for the number two position.
BTW, here are some behind the scene stories of missed opportunities of the Thompson campaign to pick up help (read the comments). Sad, really!
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