Fred Thompson doesn't seem too worried about top-level resignations in his campaign:

That was from a stop-over in Houston yesterday. Along the lines of what I briefly wrote yesterday, Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator expands:

The things being written about Fred Thompson's soon-to-be campaign right now are eerily similar to the criticisms and doomsaying from critics concerning Rudy Giuliani in the months before the former mayor announced. Somehow, all of those breathless pronunciations didn't keep Giuliani from standing firmly at the top of the polls.[snip]

Thompson isn't imploding. He has surrounded himself with smart people, and he is a very good communicator who is a proven mainstream conservative. He's gonna be very, very much in the mix, and he is well positioned to win the whole thing.

Jim Geraghty isn't so sure:

When Thompson gets in, most of us expect we will see a savvy, charismatic candidate. But he's taken some lumps in recent weeks, and with each passing week, the expectations for that official announcement speech - when all Republican eyes will be on him - just keep getting higher.

Perhaps most troubling, Thompson has run into his current (modest) troubles without anyone else in the race really taking a swing at him.

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