KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR

Six months ago, looking at the GOP field of presidential nominees must have been about the most depressing thing on Earth for right-wingers. The big "name recognition" guy is an unelectable social liberal from New York, McCain set a velocity record for transitioning from Well-Respected to Living Joke, and Christian-right heavyweights were reduced to throwing their weight behind 5th-rate nobodies like Sam Brownback. I can't really blame them for grasping at straws to find a savior. So in rides Fred Thompson, a Knight in Shining Armor.

To anyone who cares to look, however, his armor is so shiny because it is covered in layer upon layer of raw sewage.

Please take note of the Boston Globe's excellent expose of Thompson's intimate involvement with the only U.S. President less respected than the current one. I'm sure that neither Freddie or the GOP will be real eager to talk about his Watergate links, but I bet the facts will have some resonance with Americans old enough to remember that debacle.

In typical bizarro-world fashion, Watergate conspirators are folk heroes to Republicans (see also: North, Ollie and Libby, Scooter). It seems that if one breaks the law in support of a Republican president's efforts to do things that are patently illegal, that's good enough for beatification.

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Getting convicted of something, well that's martyrdom material right there.
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So, believe it or not, Freddie actually benefits among Neocons from his seedy Watergate involvement. He fought the good fight to defend the idea that the president is not only completely above the law but the sole relevant branch of government.

If that doesn't give Bill Kristol a massive, throbbing erection then I don't know what will. It's always dangerous to give the American public much credit for intelligence, but something tells me that arguing "I helped Nixon obstruct justice!" won't get the same amount of applause on the campaign trail that it gets at Federalist Society luncheons. But I'm sure that if Freddie T doesn't work out, some other knight in shit-covered armor will emerge. What's Chuck Colson doing these days?