By KEVIN LANDRIGANTelegraph Staff
Likely Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson said voters want candor to come out of the 2008 election and confidence from the next president, whoever it is to be.“I think the next president is going to have to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may,’’ Thompson said during a telephone interview with The Telegraph on Thursday.The complications from the war in Iraq should teach the next leader to own up to things if they don’t go as well as planned and not to dwell on the past.“I think Americans are more than willing to acknowledge mistakes, but we are not going to be wallowing forever in our mistakes,’’ said the former Tennessee senator“When America appears to be weak or divided, that is when things become even more dangerous. We have to be mindful of that as we go forward.’’Thompson, 64, has seized the lack of enthusiasm for the 10 declared GOP candidates and surged in the polls even as he readies when to make his final, expected decision to enter the race.
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