Thompson Handicaps GOP Race From S.C.
ROCK HILL, S.C. -- While the rest of his Republican counterparts made their case in Michigan for tonight's primary, Fred Thompson continued his bus tour of South Carolina.
"They're up there fighting the blizzards in Michigan and I'm down here in South Carolina," he said. "Now who's most qualified to be president with judgment like that?"
Thompson has skipped both the New Hampshire and Michigan primaries in favor of "drawing a line in the sand" in South Carolina, where one of his main opponents could be Mitt Romney – especially if Romney wins in Michigan.
"Undoubtedly it will recharge him a little bit, but he seems to have a lot of recharging to do," Thompson said about Romney. "I don't know if it'll make up enough ground for him or not."
But from looking at the polls, Thompson thinks his main competition will not be from the former Massachusetts governor. "I thought it would probably be Huckabee, but now it looks like it's going to be McCain," he said.