Putting the Foundation Under the House

Captain Ed, this morning, mentions David Brody’s column this morning in which he discusses Fred Thompson’s take on the uselessness of party platforms.

I tend to agree with the basic position that the party platform has become more of a

Posted without comment.link:

(Los Angeles, California) For the first time the leading candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to LGBT issues.

The one-hour event will be held on August 9 and broadcast on

Mitt Romeny calls Mrs. Clinton, what she is, a Marxist (video).   Some leftards, T.W. Furman, TPM Cate for one, are none too happy about it..  Furman thinks this Mrs. Clinton quote refutes Romney:

Now, there is no greater force

Pinch Sulzberger, a.k.a. the New York Times, in reference to Fred Thompson, is asking, “Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?” 

To which, Paul Mirengoff, Powerline, says:

I don’t see why not. In 2004, America

Joyner at OTB:

The big news overnight is the claim by a pro abortion group that it hired Fred Thompson to lobby the first President Bush to soften his stance on a gag rule.
Michael Finnegan broke the story

I know it is the question everybody, from Rush Limbaugh to Keith Olbermann, is asking, and given the size of our readship the obvious answer is no.   Yet revolutionary theories are often counter intuitive.

On the Fourth, in “Clinton

I still regard Ron Paul as a bad joke.  And yet, we see that he’s managed to out fundraise John McCain.

I’m not quite sure what this is indicative of, except perhaps the bump that Paul got from the left

You know, it almost seems useless to bring this up again, since both David and myself have mentioned it several times in the last four days or so.  But this is an interesting angle:

Michelle Malkin points to Doug Heye,

 Mrs. Clinton’s pollster, Mark Pennm sued for engaging in domestic spying:  

NEW YORK (AP) – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief strategist is being accused of illegal eavesdropping in a civil lawsuit that alleges he and his polling firm monitored

It’s a rare event indeed when I come down on the same side as the flaming liberal, Alan Dershowitz. And , here is that rare occasion, which I’ll slice to a couple paras with added emph by myself:

The outcry

The latest Rasmussen poll would seem to suggest that the race for the republican presidential nomination has become somewhat more stable, with former senator Fred Thompson leading the way.

He’s not even declared, yet.  Just in case you’ve forgotten.   An

A slow day out there. Been looking around at some of the things on my “todo” list. ONe of hem was the comment some weeks ago about Fred Thompson being a legislative lightweight.

First of all, even if he was

Here comes Captain Ed:

Rudy Giuliani either has given up attempting to sound conservative or has forgotten that all presidential primary politics is national in today’s media environment. While trying to woo Californians, Rudy claimed that he would govern

Don Surber sums up Elizabeth Edwards:

Mrs. Edwards has been in the public eye for 8 years. Her skin is thinner than Coulter’s legs. Mrs. Edwards is rude to her neighbors, showing the elitism that is typical of certain