The Daily Background

Some more examples of Thompson being lazy like a fox:

In South Carolina, a heavily Baptist state, he told reporters at his first campaign stop that he rarely goes to church: “I attend church when I’m in Tennessee. I’m in McLean [Va.] right now.”

He told a woman at a South Carolina rally that he doesn’t plan to talk widely about his relationship with God on the campaign trail, according to Bloomberg news service.

In Greenville, S.C., when asked if bin Laden should be immediately killed after his capture, he said: “No, no, no. We’ve got due process to go through.” In trying to fix that, his campaign told Politico that first the government should get as much information as possible, and told AP that he meant “the same rules ought to apply to him as to everyone at Guantanamo Bay.”

In Florida, where the Terri Schiavo feeding-tube case was a cause celebre two years ago, Thompson told the Tampa area’s Bay News 9 that he couldn’t pass judgment and added: “That’s going back in history. I don’t remember the details of it.”

On the religion issue, Thompson is certainly not the most conspicuous of the Republicans in terms of what might give the evangelicals cause for pause. Rudy Giuliani for example has said his faith is a private matter that should not be brought up in politics, and refuses to answer questions about it (though he does occasionally mention his Catholic upbringing on the stump).

On the bin Laden matter, that’s bound to upset more conservatives than it will liberals, especially since I think he was recently quoted about giving bin Laden “due process”- his words, which might make some conservatives uneasy about whether or not he’d authorize an assassination attempt, which I’d guess most of them would support.

On Terri Shaivo, and I wrote about his flub when it happened earlier this month, but this is a new take on it- “that’s going back in history.” What’s wrong with going back in history, Freddie? Presidential candidates are (rightfully) required to do it all the time, so we can learn what they might be like as leaders. Is he aloof to looking back at history- even when history is something that happened a scant two years ago? (Or his own history, say, of lobbying for a group that advocates something he personally considers murder?)

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