But seriously, the idea fills me with fear and trembling.  The Christian right doesn't like him, though, cuz he's not a ranting-and-raving pro-lifer, which is enough to make him, in their view, "pro-choice."

As the Foreign Policy Passport blog noted last week, bizarrely, Thompson has also been criticized by the right for being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which seems like a really strange thing to try to "smear" somebody with.