Fred Thompson-All Hat No Cattle II.

". . .Fred Thompson . . . spent 18 years working as a highly paid lobbyist, wore well-tailored suits and drove a black Lincoln Continental. When he ran for the Senate, however, his campaign reinvented him as a good old boy: it leased a used red pickup truck for him to drive, dressed up in jeans and a work shirt, with a can of Red Man chewing tobacco on the front seat. But Mr. Thompson’s strength, says Lanny Davis in The Hill, is that he’s 'authentic.' Oh, and as a candidate George W. Bush was praised as being more authentic than Al Gore." from Authenticity By Paul Krugman

Speaking of W., at least one person understands.