Why South Carolina Should Pick Fred

At the American Spectator, Quin Hilyer makes the best case I’ve seen for South Carolinians to support Fred Thompson in Saturday’s primary:

If I were a South Carolina Republican voter on Saturday, then for parochial, tactical, and philosophical reasons, I would vote for Fred Thompson.

This doesn’t mean that I would not have voted for Mitt Romney in Michigan on Tuesday, if I were a Michigander, or that I would not vote for Rudy Giuliani in Florida later this month. Voting in each state, especially in a drawn-out nomination battle, involves particularly local considerations as well as national ones.

But for South Carolinians who are mainstream conservatives, those local considerations seem to cry out for a boost for Fred Thompson.

Read the whole thing. (HT: Jonathan Adler at The Corner)