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Thompson is a grim, hulking, humorless old geezer who’s been making a living lately pretending to be someone he’s not. Hillary’s been working long nights in the Senate serving her constituents. A couple of nights ago on Hannity and Colmes, Thompson’s gray face, sunken cheeks, and the giant bags under his eyes didn’t remind me of Reagan, they reminded me of the way Roosevelt looked at Yalta. Thompson looked every one of his sixty-four years and then some. What’s his excuse? Late nights on the movie set?

If Republicans think bringing this old has-been out of mothballs and putting him up against Hillary is a winning formula, they’re as goofy as the Republicans in my state who were convinced that Lynn Swann could beat Ed Rendell.

The push for Thompson reminds me of another Republican disaster—the Dole-Kemp idea. Anyone who thinks appearance and energy-level and pizazz don’t matter should remember that and the Nixon-Kennedy debate.

Enough already of the good ole Southern boy with the accent and the pickup truck. The voters showed in the last election that they’re thoroughly tired of that routine.

Oh, please. Look if Romney gets the nomination, I'll vote for him, but I won't be happy about it -- NOT because he's like the super-successful high school guy I envy, but because he's BETRAYED in very fundamental ways principles that I think ALL Republicans should embrace because they're the only things that will keep us a prosperous nation of responsible, free individuals.

--Government-mandated health insurance "without raising taxes!" *rolls eyes*

--His office endorsing "Gay Youth Pride Day," for teenagers! The "gay" part is bad enough, but even THINKING that the governor's office has any role at all in the declared sexual orientation of minors, is something more than audacious. It's a betrayal.

--A quote I can produce for you if you want, where he basically says that working with environmentalists doesn't have to mean hurting economic growth or businesses. It's not just that what he said is pure manure, it's that self-serving platitudes like that doozy help environmentalists do more harm! Republicans need to fight back with truth, not acquiesque to environmentalist power grabs by pretending it's progress.

No, the reason I don't trust Romney is because of thing's he's DONE -- not what I think he'll do. Your "envy" angle is more to shield your own inadequacies of argument in Romney's favor, his success at reducing budgets notwithstanding.

The comments about Romney sound like plain old envy to me. It’s like the super successful high school guy who was president of the class, valedictorian, and football hero who announces he’s getting into West Point. Everybody, particularly the geeks and losers, secretly hate the guy’s guts.

It may be irrelevant, but I was that guy, including the part about getting into West Point. I'm voting for Fred.

I'm voting for Fred because he's the only potential candidate who has articulated that he will both defend the principles of a limited federal government, and that he will defend the country that makes that possible.

Ron Paul will do the former, and Duncan Hunter will do the latter. Only Fred can credibly say he'll do both.