Which GOP Hopeful Suffers Most From Thompson Entering The Race?

I'd say it is McCain. They are very similar politically and Thompson would be able to do what McCain tried to do in 2000, which is to claim to be the maverick outsider (even if he isn't, really). Romney still has enough of that "fresh face" crap going for him that he won't be as marginalized as McCain would be. I don't think he would hurt Giuliani as much either.

...I think you are right. But I think it will initially impact McCain the hardest.

The only reason he does well now is that he is less freaky than the others. But the mormonism angle will sink him in the end. As soon as the evangelicals get someone they can follow Mitt goes down...

but he apparently can't resist the need to feed his actor's ego and his quest for attention and adulation.

& the RNC are planning on putting their full support behind Fred. If they do that, the rest of them don't stand a chance!

to the general election.

Doomed before the start.

Romney loses out because Thompson can position himself as an acceptable alternative to McCain and Giuliani. Both McCain and Giuliani have problems with the GOP base because of their ideological transgressions (and in Rudy's case, his odd personal life). Right now, Romney is the only viable alternative. Thompson changes that equation.

I agree with your analysis with Romney, I think if Thompson comes in, it puts a fork into Romney ...

I think it hurts Guiliani a great deal, also ... Guilini is this cycles Dubya ... The idiot who never should even be considered, but is being foisted up by the MSM ... Again, yesterday on Hardball, Feinman actually said something to the extent of "the thing you have to really love about Guiliani is that he is complete jerk" ... Something along those lines ... It gave me DIRECT flashbacks to Dubya and the "he is moron, but you would want to have a beer with him" time of 1999 ...

Thompson has NO business being a candidate either, but is more physically imposing than the worm Guilliani, has "half" of Guilani's personal baggage and a lot better ability to fit into the social conservative square peg ...

Thompson comes in, and the MSM will jump ship on carrying water for Guiliani and start to carry water for Thompson ...

McCain is not going to get the nomination either way ...

It'll be the supposedly real tough guy Thompson versus the tough guy they believe to be fake McCain.

Which is ironic.