Former Tenn. Senator – and actor – Fred Thompson has formed a “testing the waters” committee to examine whether he should run for the Republican presidential nomination. Read Newsday: Actor Fred Thompson tests presidential waters
Thompson played the head D.A. in Law & Order and was the head of the Washington DC airport (Reagan or Dulles?) in the second Die Hard movie.
Thompson will appeal to those Southerners and Christian Conservatives who backed Bush in 2004 & 2000.