MSM Decides To Start Covering Fred

Pretty nice write-up on Fred Thompson in the Washington Post.

Should Thompson announce, his general-election advantage is that he's not divisive. He doesn't evoke the kind of vitriolic hate that many other conservatives inspire. He's the kind of guy who could broker peace between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell, someone who would bring red-state and blue-state America together.

OK, very nice -- of course that will end once he declares.

Shortly after I wrote in 2000 that Thompson bears a striking resemblance to the Klingon "Star Trek" character Worf -- high forehead, wide nose and a hairline that exposes a bald top (Google it) -- a package from the then-unmarried senator arrived in the mail. It was a picture of Worf that Thompson had signed with this message: "In the immortal words of Sawyer Brown, some girls don't like boys like me. Ah, but some girls do."

You'd never catch Al Gore or Bill Frist quoting Sawyer Brown.

His folksiness and wit combined with his obvious education and political background will drive the Democrats to distraction.  Their recently found love for Ronald Reagan will likely disappear for a spell.  They'll drag out all their old insults (detached, uninvolved, uninformed and scripted) and try to attach them to Thompson.  They won't stick.

Thompson's no shoo-in, for the nomination or the presidency.  But he's the best I've seen in a long, long time.