* Interesting things to note about yesterday’s NBC/WSJ poll:
(1) Thompson now leads Romney by 5 points. While that’s not out of the margin yet (+/- 3.1), it’s consistent enough with other polls that we think Romney should just drop out of the race and hand over his war chest to a conservative-supported candidate who can do something useful with it. Also note that McCain only leads Thompson by 5, putting Thompson in the margin.
(2) No one has bothered telling NBC that calling John McCain a “maverick” is now self-caricaturing. There are undiscovered tribes of pygmies who have never heard of America, let alone of “the Arizona Senator”, who smirk when they hear him being called a maverick.
* Fred Thompson hung out with Chris Hitchens and Paul Wolfowitz at the Vanity Fair Correspondent’s Dinner after-party. And thus did a great MR convergence take place.
* Exit homework: Aristotle distinguished between three kinds of proofs that can be offered in a speech – logos, or appeals to logic; pathos, or appeals to emotion; and ethos, or appeals based on the speaker’s character. As an exercise, see if you can identify each kind of proof in Thompson’s humiliating facecrush of Ramesh Ponnuru on federalism.
References:
* POLL: NBC/WSJ 08 Primary, Iraq
* Americans siding with Dems against Bush
* Christopher Hitchens Denounces Beltway Party, Invites Paul Wolfowitz To His House
* For the Defense [NRO Corner]
Previously:
* Your End Of the Week Fred Thompson Fix
* New Thompson CW: He Can Take His Damn Sweet Time
* Monday Morning Thompson Updates
