Fredmentum

Since last Friday’s debate, Senator Fred Thompson’s campaign has been gaining steam. He picked up the endorsement of Human Events and raised $200,000 in about a day. Reports are indicating overflowing campaign events in South Carolina. No polls have tried to measure the level of his comeback since last Thursday’s debate, but he may have life in this campaign, something that no one would have thought before.

Stalking Horse

Joe Scarborough raised a controversial theory on his Morning Joe show, alleging that Thompson was beating up Huckabee for John McCain. Others have gone further in alleging that Thompson wants to be McCain’s Veep. Thompson supporters have been quick to point out that Thompson giving up his gig on Law and Order, as well as commentary on ABC radio for the Vice-Presidency is a tad incongruous. They rightly point out that Huckabee, as a governor would make more sense for McCain.

The fact is that neither Huckabee nor Thompson laid a glove on the Arizona Senator. Neither drew distinctions between them. Maybe the two view themselves as in a battle for the Real Conservative vote. Maybe Huck would like to be Vice-President under McCain with a fast track to the White House, maybe Thompson is too kind to deliver a speech on his old friend’s coalition of environmentalists, statists, etc. Whatever it was, no one was opposing John McCain and Fred was going for the conservative vote.

Agreement

We have agreement between between the Presidents of Club for Growth and the Family Research Council for Vice-President: Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC). If whoever’s nominated is lucky enough to find Sanford open to the possibility (a doubtful prospect), they ought to take it as a sign and have one less decision to make as nominee.

Exposing McCain

With the obsessive conservative media attacks on Huckabee, Amnesty/Global warming king John McCain has been let off the hook. Not anymore.

Detroit News Columnist Daniel Howes exposes how McCain’s efforts to increase CAFE standards will devestate an already economically weak state. (Hat Tip: Baghdad Hugh.)

Mark Levin lays out the case against McCain in bullet points:

McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

And that’s just on domestic issues. And Rick Santorum is making his case against McCain on radio. (Hat Tip: Stop the ACLU.)

Is it too late to stop McCain? Hopefully not, the success of the conservative movement depends on it