Centerfield

Fred Gets Insta-Plumped

Instapundit is featuring this sensible quote from Fred Thompson:

Whenever I've seen one of those "Gun-free Zone" signs, especially outside of a school filled with our youngest and most vulnerable citizens, I've always wondered exactly who these signs are directed at. Obviously, they don't mean much to the sort of man who murdered 32 people just a few days ago.

Good point. Nice to hear from someone with a smidgen of guts, IMO. Especially against the backdrop of the predictable blatherings that gun control is the answer.

Over at Stubborn Facts, Simon has pointed out that David Frum's already written Romney's 2008 obit. Simon says it's premature, and it may well be, but what sort of boost will the grandfatherly Right-Said Fred get from this well-timed insta-plumping? Whatever he gets is likely to come at the further expense of the floundering Mittster Flipster. Fred's too sexy for the Mitt.

I agree with Simon that Fred's enjoying the honeymoon treatment...we know this character....the honeymooner who hasn't tossed his hat in yet, has not gotten much scrutiny, and meanwhile some pining group without a champion invests their positive hopes in the comparative tablua rasa. Sorta goes like this:

"We don't know this guy, but he's said some things we like, so let's fill in all the blanks with our fondest wishes."

Hey, what's good for the Obama is good for the Fred, right?

Oh, and look, Obama gets tossed under the insta-bus just a couple posts below: Glenn says Obama's a great big gasbag. That's not a very nice thing to say...in fact its a pretty effective poison meme if you want to paint Obama a librul ivory-tower blatherer. Let me add though that I'll give Glenn conditional credit without even checking the clip...I'm sure there's evidence Obama is guilty of this from time to time. It's gonna happen when interested crowds are dying to hear you speak, and you're tired, and so on.You can't have your good stuff every day. Not every speech will be "I have a dream," right?