More rumblings about Mr Thompson

Stephen Hayes at the Weekly Standard:

According to an adviser to one of the leading candidates, the rationale for a Thompson run is best illustrated--as so many things are--by The Simpsons. In one episode, Homer Simpson's civic-minded neighbor Ned Flanders tells a large crowd of fellow Springfield citizens that they must choose someone to lead an anticrime campaign in the town.  "Who should lead the group?"  "You," shouts a man from the crowd. The entire mob begins to chant. 
"Flanders! Flanders! Flanders!"   When Flanders humbly begins to explain that he doesn't have much experience in such matters, Moe the Bartender cuts him off. 
"Someone else!"  The crowd joins in.  "Someone else! Someone else! Someone else!"   One obvious advantage Fred Thompson has is that he's someone else.

It's a useful look at the status in quo.