Fred Thompson as VP?

It's not going to happen. The plot to oust Cheney is going to be discussed in the future like those people who love alternate histories like to speculate about what would have happened if the plot to assassinate Hitler had worked, but it's not going to happen. Cheney is the real power. He's not going to step aside quietly, unless Fred Thompson is completely Cheney's servant.

I agree with Atrios. It would be a good move to improve Thompson's chances in the 2008 election, but it is fantasy speculation by delusional people on the cocktail circuit of Washington DC who still think that it's politics as usual, and have yet to understand that something very strange and wrong happened in the fall of 2000.

The Iraq War was to spread democracy too, and we're about to turn the corner. Idiots.