I keep hoping that McCain will do something that will want to make me vote for him, but Fred Thompson shot down the biggest thing McCain could do before the question was even asked. In an interview on last night’s Hannity and Colmes, Fred said he had no interest in being the vice president and if McCain actually posed the question, would advise him to get someone else with "a different profile".

It’s not what I want. The presidency is the only job in town that’s worth going through what you’ve got to go through to get it. And that includes the vice presidency and all of the rest of them, as far as I’m concerned.

And I thought I had an opportunity to do some things a different way. And if I was successful, I could lead in a different way. That didn’t work out. I’m interested in absolutely nothing else other than doing what I can to help those who are trying to help this country, and be a good citizen and do those things that I can do now in the private sector to help these kids and grandchildren.

But that does not involve, you know, going to state funerals in faraway places.

And that last statement is why I love Fred.