Slimy dick resents Fred and Newt

Slimy dick manages to ask a good question, poorly:

Two shadows loomed over last night's Republican debate in South Carolina — the missing ex-Sen. Fred Thompson and former Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Both Thompson and Gingrich are reviewing their astrological charts to determine if the time is right for their presidential candidacies. These rites of introspection make it much harder for the conservative wing of the Republican Party to settle on a candidate.

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's pro-choice position and his backing for gun control and gay civil unions disqualify him from support by much of the Christian right.

OK, I'm going to say this one more time. Gun control is not a "religious right" issue. I am both a gun nut and an Evangelical Christian and I see plenty of people at church who don't like guns and plenty of people at the shooting range who aren't Christians. You've been told this before, why aren't you getting it?

The field of Republican conservatives has some promising entrants. While Romney's credentials as a conservative are rendered suspect by pro-choice/pro-life flip-flops and by his sponsorship of a liberal healthcare program in Massachusetts, other candidates could well carry the ball if Newt and Fred would get out of the way.

Huckabee (disclosure: a former Morris client) is an articulate executive — and former Baptist minister who can set social-conservative hearts aflutter. Hunter's brand of hard-line conservatism could also appeal to broad swaths of the right. But nobody can get a word in edgewise because of two men who don't think enough of us to fish or cut bait: Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich.

What you have to understand about Slimy dick is that he is a liberal who loves and admires Bill Clinton and whose greatest regret in life is that he lost a power struggle with Hillary and was forced off the Clinton White House team. If he could go back and do things differently he would be a part of the Clinton machine right now.

As for Thompson and Gingrich Thompson is running and will announce in June. Until then he is unofficially in the race and is getting millions of dollars worth of free publicity and creating an electric anticipation on the part of conservatives. While Julie Annie implodes, McCain continues his slide to the margins and none of the other candidates manages to gain traction (and while Newt manages to manages to use his mouth for a shoe a few more times) Thompson's appeal will continue to grow. When Thompson makes his announcement he will be quickly catapulted into front runner status and he will never look back.

What Slimy dick doesn't get is that Fred is so likable and easy going that every torpedo that Clinton and Co. fire at him will wind up circling back and hitting them. That's what gave Reagan his Teflon coating, you know. His likable easy going nature. Thompson does not have to copy this, he has it naturally.

Gingrich, on the other hand, is not running and knows it. He is using the speculation about his possible candidacy to raise his profile in order to help him sell his new novel Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th (which should be good, BTY) and to give him cachet for some projects which he is working on or planning.

My counsel to conservatives is to wait another 30 to 45 days and your hopes will be granted. And until then ride your Senators and Representitives like the very wrath of God over this immigraions sell-out. Because if that becomes law even Fred Thompson can't save the Republican Party.