Fred on the trail in Florida

The Fred Thompson bus tour of Florida  - Rudy country with just a hint of Romney support - rolled on today. A yawner of a stump speech at a local “Reagan Republican Party dinner” last night gave way to more interesting surroundings: an open gun show in Lakeland and the head spinning crowd outside The Swamp for a Tennessee-Florida football game. Fred didn’t get too many cheers as a native Tennessean there, but the gun crowd may have been harsher.

“I was all for him until I started reading the votes,” said gun dealer Ken Strevels, standing at a table lined with machine guns, including an enormous .50 caliber rifle held up by a tripod. “I’m not sure now. He’s flipping on the vote. It’s like he’s working both sides.”

A Gun Owners of America report said Thompson voted “anti-gun” 14 times on 33 votes the group tracked during his eight years in the Senate, ending in 2003.

Tim Smith, a Winter Haven dealer, said the report raises questions about whether Thompson is entirely pro-gun.

Those quotesshow just how disgusted rank-and-file GOP voters are with their current crop of choices. Even the almighty Fred gets some queasy looks for his less-than-conservative past on important issues. Not as bad as Romney, but not the response that was hoped for.

With this in mind, was it any surprise that the Volunteers got trounced? It’s time fior Fred to get serious about his run. Showing up at a debate might help

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