Folks. I don't know which I'm prouder of my man Fred for, dropping the hammer on the NEA or setting that schoolmarm straight about show-of-hands questions. I'm still haven't given up hoping for a Thompson/Hunter ticket ; we don't need another Arkansas huckster in the White House, or someone who thinks America ends at the Mason-Dixon line going south and the Pennsylvania/Ohio line going west, or someone who believes in equal rights for jihadis and illegal immigrants.

Debate commentary on other sites:

• Geraghty: "Winner: Thompson."
• John Hawkins: "Winner: Fred Thompson."
• Philip Klein: Fred Thompson Wins, Hands Down
• Surber: Fred gets it
• The Iowa GOP Debate: “A little snappier, gentlemen!”
• Open thread: The Huckabee pile-on debate!
  Video: Keyes hijacks the debate;
  Video: GOP refuses a show of hands on global warming;
  Video: Fred on the NEA
• Video: Luntz’s focus group says Romney won big
• Jay Stephensen: The GOP Debate: Who Won?

Folks, I lived in Iowa for 5 years and came away with a lot of respect for the people there. I'm really, really, optimistic that after the caucuses a lot of people are going to have to accept Fred Dalton Thompson as a top-tier candidate, which he has been in my mind for months. BTW, check out Fred's immigration thoughts here. I don't see a thing to not like.

Other quick hits:

• Iran test fires a 2,000 km range missile

• "Halliburton", gang rape, and fear of arbitration: the Jamie Leigh Jones case
• PJM: What Happened to Jamie Leigh Jones in Baghdad?
• Jamie's Chronology

• The Moussaoui transcripts revealed

• Report: Fort Dix Six plotters spreading jihad in jail

• Exclusive IPT Investigation Uncovers HLF Jury Room Bullying

• Open Season at TNR
• Foer’s Foggy New Republic Retraction Doesn’t Please Everyone

• Bush vetoes massive S-CHIP bill again; Dems plan on milking the issue again

• 2007; year in media corrections
• Corrections of the year

• The Dumond file -- what more did Huckabee need to know?
• The Parsin' Parson
• The Huckabee/Romney Circus
• Huckabee: "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"
• Mitt on Huckabee's latest: "[A]ttacking someone's religion is really going too far"
• The "tacky" defense
• Huckabee apologizes for comments on Mormons
• Bainbridge: Personal Presidential Elimination Process: The Case Against Mike Huckabee
• Video: “The worst debate in western history”

• Meet the GOP immigration drag queens

• JROTC in San Francisco rescued

• Hillary's Firewall -- A Political Maginot Line?
• Panic: Team Hillary hits Obama on youthful drug use;
  Update: Say, did Hillary ever drop acid at Wellesley?
• Hm, Yeah, How *Come* No One's Asked Hillary About Drug Use?
• Since you've opened that door...

Contributed by Bill Faith on December 12, 2007 at 12:05 PM | Permalink

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