Seriously, though (because I know you didn't mean Tommy): There's no significant daylight between Bush and either McCain or Thompson on Iraq, GWOT, or other foreign policy issues. Thompson's a strong Federalist, which has led him to oppose over-federalization (e.g., on some tort reform legislation), but that's not un-conservative. His pro-life votes in Congress have been consistent, although there too he's favored individual states having the right to legislate as a legal position. The odds are that he's going to swear off McCain-Feingold as a failed experiment. What "most key issues" were you possibly thinking of?

He has nothing but utter contempt for the US government and he is a coward to boot. He took plenty of pay hikes for himself over the years but never once had the guts to face his constituents and ask them to pay for any of it.

He is beneath contempt.

And he's about to drop out of the race. All Thompson and no McCain make Captain America a happy boy. Check out this little nugget I found over at Outside the Beltway:...

The irony is that many of the people who hate McCain because he’s “not conservative enough” and who are angry at him for McCain-Feingold are enthusiastically rallying behind Fred Thompson, who voted for that bill and is less conservative than McCain on most key issues.

Indeed, McCain is still light-years ahead in terms of overall electability than other big names in the primary race, like Mitt and Rudy. At this rate, the GOP will have to choose between nominating someone who'll make Dem oppo researchers' lives easy (Mitt & Rudy), someone who might be conservative & somewhat charismatic, but doesn't actually line up with many Americans' actual opinions (Fred), a complete lunatic (Brownback, Tancredo), or some no-name-recognition-having third-stringer (pretty much everyone else). This could rapidly become a train-wreck that'll make the Dukakis campaign look masterful in comparison.