More on Fred Thompson from A.C. Kleinheider:

Fred Thompson is his own man but he has a lineage and he he has a history and it is not as conservative as his studio-packaged image would indicate.

At the end of the day, Thompson may be the best conservatives can hope for but let’s not fool ourselves into believing he is a conservative — he isn’t.

He may be conservative (adj.) but he is not a conservative (n.) and he has certainly been less than helpful to the ascendent traditional conservative wing of the Tennessee Republican Party.

We last heard from A.C. a few days ago.