A couple of Matt's commenters beat me to it, but I don't think it's really accurate to say that Thompson is taking a stand on "federalist" grounds. He's never met a federal abortion regulation he doesn't like, for example, so as with 99% of the...
Fred Thompson
If he weren't merely fulfilling one of the emptiest of right-wing obligations for seeking the presidency, I'd have to nominate this as about the most objectively ahistorical thing I've heard.
Garance reminds me of Belle Waring on Fred Thompson: "First of all, are women voters, taken as a whole, really so much like retarded kittens in our motivations? And secondly,.
As with Publius, it's occurred to me looking at the less-than-rapturous reception to Fred Thompson in some of the blogosphere's conservative precincts that there are may be a loose parallel between Clark's campaign in '04 and Thompson in '08. The surprising early decline in support...
Fred Thompson:Speaking in Sioux City, Iowa, moments ago, Fred Thompson endorsed an amendment to the Constitution that would prevent state judges from altering the definition of marriage without the direction.
Shorter Fred Thompson:I can say without the slightest trace of hyperbole that Leslie Southwick reminds me of a pious old Puritan woman who was hanged on suspicion of being a.
. . . fixed by your friends at the Sadly, No! Research Consortium.I'm not sure what "Lawyers, Guns and Money Facts" would be, but speaking purely for myself, they'd be pretty goddamned boring.
Fred Thompson:Noting that the United States had apprehended 1,000 people from Cuba in 2005, Thompson said, "I don't imagine they're coming here to bring greetings from Castro. We're living in.
I suppose there's nothing terribly surprising about Fred Thompson asserting that Roe v. Wade is the worst Supreme Court decision since 1967. And nor is it surprising that he would.
Fred Thompson scares me in the general more than Matt if he could secure the nomination. (I think Giuliani is a poor general election candidate -- he largely takes social issues of the table, which won't be good for the GOP in a lot of...