Is Thompson the new darling of the right?

The Nation magazine (my favorite liberal rag) just ran a big story about Fred Thompson and how he is likely to enter the Presidential race (officially) soon. With McCain in decline (down but not out) and Romney and Giuliani unimpressive to the evangelicals, Thompson is quickly becoming the candidate d'jour -- despite his shortcomings.

Here is my favorite quote in the entire article. It comes from Gary Glenn, the homophobe in Chief in MI:

The best way to ensure that Hillary Clinton is the next President is to nominate Rudy Giuliani or John McCain or Mitt Romney, all of whom will give social conservatives sufficient cause to go fishing. – Gary Glenn, AFA MI

The leading Republican candidates for President are not exciting to social conservatives like Mr. Glenn, who is on a campaign to smear Mitt Romney. Romney used to support gay rights and abortion rights, but once he had his eye on the presidency he moved hard right.

The fact that Glenn is saying, this far out from the 2008 elections, that the leading Republican contenders would not excite the base, spells bad news for conservatives.