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Make-Believe Reagan : Rolling Stone:

… Well, I think as I stand by myself on the curb, so much for Fred Thompson. After all, logic dictates that anyone who’s too much of a lightweight for Fox News is probably…

I freeze. Probably what? Probably a shoo-in for the presidency, that’s what! I shudder as I realize my mistake, and suddenly the candidacy of Fred Thompson, which seemed impossibly silly just a few minutes ago, makes deadly serious sense. Thompson may act like a blank slate — a homespun version of Being There hero Chauncey Gardiner running on a platform of “Whatever you say” and “I’ll get back to you on that” — but he represents something else that no one, after seven years of George W. Bush, could possibly have expected: a new low. It was bad enough when the GOP field was led by a grinning Mormon corporatist and a fascist ex-mayor itching to take his prostate pain out on the world, but Thompson is the worst yet — a human snooze button, campaigning baldly for the head-in-the-sand vote by asking Americans not to think but to change the channel.

Much more at link, and well worth reading. Matt Taibbi is right on the money, as usual.

Last updated on Wednesday, September 26, 2007