NH Debate: Fred Wins

Ran through it on delay, just now, and that’s my take.

Armbinder at The Atlantic agrees:

On points, Fred Thompson won the debate.

Every answer was thoughtful and well-crafted; his tone matched the tone of the question; he wisely refrained

Peter Robinson at The Corner

The latest news from Iowa? According to Zogby’s latest—and I quote: “Sen. Fred Thompson…has seen a late-breaking surge.” (Rich notes the same poll below.)

What’s going on here? My guess is that there are

Noted over at Samzidata: Paul Marks makes a point I’ve been making:

 This morning Fox and Friends concentrated on three candidates in relation the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night: the two lead candidates in the polls, Mike Huckabee and Mitt

James Joyner, under a banner Fred Thompson: Not Interested in Running for President, writes today:

There’s a minor blogstorm developing around a report from Bill Theobald in USA Today about Fred Thompson’s answer to a question as to how badly

Awesome Christmas video.

Hat Tip:  John Stephenson, Right Wing News, and Stop the ACLU.

Edit:   Added John’s home blog.

I note over at Right Wing News that John Hawkins has posted an interview he did with Fred Thompson’s wife, Jeri.

John Hawkins: Now Hillary Clinton has been touting her “experience” as First Lady on the campaign trail, as

I note Beldar is with Fred.

On every issue I care deeply about, Fred Thompson is a genuine, thoughtful conservative — without any major exceptions or doubtful areas that I have to forgive or ignore. And in the simplest possible

A couple of good videos about Fred came out today, here and here.  However nobody does Fred better than Fred himself.  From National Review,  on Hannity & Colmes, Fred says Huckabee “is not a conservative.”   Fred 

Fred08 has issued the following apology:

From Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director:

In light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times Magazine, we at the Thompson Campaign would

It really has been mortifying to watch The National Review going supine for nothing but the value of winning the next election. That they would endorse Mitt Romney is just pathetic, and a glaring sign of the times. Kathryn Jean

Jason Zengerle,  from that stalwart bastion of right wing thought the New Republic, nails Mrs. Clinton for her doublespeak:

From today’s NYT article about Hillary’s struggles in Iowa, this is a bit of a damning admission from the candidate,

Drudge confirms something I’ve suspected for a while, now:

**Exclusive**

Democrat party officials are avoiding any and all criticism of Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, insiders reveal.

The Democratic National Committee has told staffers to hold all fire, until he

John Hawkins over at  Right Wing News  has an interview posted with Fred Thompson’s campaign manager Bill Lacy.  An error on my part had this on my ticker for next year. My bad. Sorry, John.

It’s clear by what Lacy

Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

Peter Brown, writes for Real Clear Politics:

When one political party tries to influence the other’s presidential primary race the reasonable assumption is that someone is trying to stop the nomination of a candidate that party does not want