Opinion: Travelin’ Thompson

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Fresh off the first fundraiser for his as-yet-unannounced presidential campaign, Fred Thompson embarked upon a ‘just lookin’ tour’ Wednesday in South Carolina and today in New Hampshire.

His schedule in the Live Free Or Die State included a stop at a gun shop and a brief interview with Fox News (he bemonaed Washington’s ‘lack of credibility’).

The Politico’s Jonathan Martin has a smart look at the potential regional strength the ‘Alabama-born, Tennessee-bred’ Thompson can bring to the table in the South --- and how he’s already playing that card.

Our favorite line in the piece comes courtesy of Sid Salter, a political journalist at the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss. Assessing Thompson’s possible impact in the Republican race, Salter says he ‘could be everyone’s breakup boyfriend in the South once they jilt (John) McCain or (Rudy) Giuliani.’

-- Don Frederick