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Friday, September 7, 2007 12:00 AM

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Fred Thompson on Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.

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  • Friday, September 7, 2007 08:17 AM

    Huh?

    Did I miss something or did he just use the famous dodge and effectively NOT answer the question? People talk about "blowing smoke", but this is the first time in recent memory that I've actually seen what the smoke looks like in print. Looked like English. Read like English. But all I could get out of it was, "What?"

    Let's look at the field here.

    Guiliani is quite simply mad. Wholly and defiantly insane.

    Mitt Romney is a smiling, amoral opportunist.

    John McCain has sold his soul to Satan and proudly wears the shackles.

    And Fred Thompson is just muddling along with his old, folksy Southern charm that disguises that he's a Bush worshipper, just like he was a Nixon worshipper back in the day.

    If I were a Republican, I'd be thinking, "The earth is doomed" right about now.

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