Starting to like the guy

Up to now, I've only been hoping to like Fred Thompson.

But here comes the NYTimes, in a clever little sneer of a story, saying Fred's a walking corpse.

May be. But I read it a bit differently: He thinks campaigning is bullshit. The good news is, that's the kind of guy we need. The bad news is, it makes me think of the last, and maybe only, genuine moment from George H.W. Bush, looking at his watch at the first of those ridiculous Oprah debates that have now become standard. (You know the one; it's when Mr. Ponytail said, "Think of us as your children . . ." and Bush, instead of saying, "If you were my child, I'd kill you, your mother, your grandparents, all my brothers and sisters and all your cousins and then myself to make sure it never happened again," actually mumbled an idiot non-answer to the question.

God, he deserved to lose. But look what it did to the country's politics.