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Thompson is out.

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Wow, I’d pretty much fallen asleep  - as the postings show.  These past days Mr. Thompson has been superb.  If he keeps it up I may have to start paying attention.

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Goes down to defeat.  Common sense is not dead yet.

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Here.
 Really not a whole lot there.  It’s obviously selectively edited, and even with that it sounds like Fred’s saying pretty much the same thing today he said back then.

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We all know where McCain stands, he’s one of the authors.
Romney used to agree with him, saying in 2005 that his proposals were reasonable.  Now he says it’s not the answer.  Kinda like his new conservative convictions on abortion, huh?
Giuliani favors a proposal similar to McCain’s.
 Here’s Fred:
NRO
Most Americans know that we have an illegal immigration [...]

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!!!!!!!!!!(just in case I didn’t put in enough exclamation points to reflect CNN’s breathless report)
 Ok, it’s just a CNN poll, so we already know that accuracy is not guaranteed, but let’s take a look anyway.
 The whole story is about what people believe, not about what’s actually happening.  Schneider reports that 69% of Americans believe the [...]

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Asks Rich Lowry.  Rich says the current Republican mood  “includes a longing for someone who is a contrast to Bush’s perceived low-gravitas, verbally-challenged, seek-a-legacy-by-insulting-the-base-ism. This could be why we’re in the middle of the Thompson swoon, because people assume (perhaps wrongly) that Fred is a verbal superstar who can project gravitas”
 I probably can’t speak for [...]

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“After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.”

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“The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations. “

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Stanley Kurtz notes something different about the way the immigration bill is headed:
“Something about this immigration battle doesn’t sit well. For all the bitterness of our political battles, there’s at least the sense that the government responds to the drift of public opinion. The Republicans in Congress turned into big spenders and the war in [...]

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