It isn't everyday one finds Bill Kristol quoting Faulkner. Santayana seems more the Weekly Standard editor's style, especially with respect to the famous apercu about history coming back around to bite you on your uninformed beak. Still, he sees the past as present as future in Fred Thompson, the big ole slab of condemned Tennessee veal who's heir to… Ronald Reagan?
In the two weeks since the Thompson boomlet began, many times I've heard conservative friends consider Thompson's merits (which are real) and then–chuckling, but almost dispositively–add, "The last time we nominated an actor, it didn't turn out badly."
And the New York Observer says one way to get out the vote is to stay home and tune in:
Most of Mr. Thompson’s acting roles have played like slickly produced Presidential auditions: the tough-but-fair military man, the tough-but-fair F.B.I. agent, the tough-but-fair prosecutor—even a President. Law & Order, in which Thompson plays a conservative Southerner who somehow managed to get elected Manhattan D.A., has functioned as an hour-long campaign commercial beamed into the nation’s collective cerebral cortex for the past five years.“More people will watch Fred Thompson on Law & Order next week than will vote in both parties’ [super] primaries on Feb. 5 next year,” Mr. Galen said.
Sam Waterston is too Eugene McCarthy.
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