Thompson's Politics Much Like McCain's - washingtonpost.com: "
Fred Thompson fervently backed the
Iraq war, railed against an expanding federal government, took stands that occasionally annoyed his party and rarely spoke about his views on social issues during his tenure as a senator from
Tennessee or in his writings and speeches since leaving office. In short, the man some in the
GOP are touting as a dream candidate has often sounded like the presidential hopeful many of them seem ready to dismiss:
Sen. John McCain (
Ariz.)."