Joke Line

Joe Klein, Political Nostradamus:

As I suspected, Thompson's candidacy is this year's Wes Clark...and an object lesson for future latecomers: It's hard to jump full-speed into a presidential campaign, even an interminable one...and impossible if you're lazy. The early months of a campaign are crucial for fund-raising, yes, but also for getting your stump act together--and for figuring out which of your positions are suicidal within your party. In Thompson's case, his honorable and intellectually defensible position that abortion should be a matter of (local) legislative action rather than federal judicial action is a killer with the evangelical sorts who were sorta, kinda hoping for a Cindarella (sic) to fit into the glass slipper of their restrictive ideology. No deal with Thompson.

Moments later:

Update: Silly me. It appears that National Right-to-Life will endorse Thompson on Friday. But then, this is the that moral relativism has overtaken the GOP's interest groups. File under: Robertson endorses Giuliani

I don't know about you, but I'm filing it under: Ass, Talking Out of My