On his radio show last week, Hugh Hewitt asked if Fred Thompson might not be a good GOP nominee for President because the country “might not want another slow talking Southerner after Bush.”

Oh bullshit. It seems the only ones asking this are a bunch of fast talking Northerners (or Midwesterners, in Hugh’s case).

Mike DeVine at Race 4 2008 reminds us of the amount of diversity we’ve had in our last three “slow talking Southerners”:

Folks, voters vote on issues, character and leadership. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are all from the South. Bush kills terrorists. The other guys that talk slow appeased them. Bush cut taxes. The others from Dixie raised them. Bush picks good judges. Clinton put a feminist on the court.

Carter lusted in his heart. Clinton lusted all over the carpet and Bush is faithful to his wife.

Southern Diversity. (Except on immigration, all three would sell out the country)

Voters will not be “reminded” of Bush if Thompson advocates border security first, cuts in government spending and delivers lines like a fine actor from Law and Order.

Exactly.