Which consultant told John Edwards it was a really great idea to get into bed with Fred Thompson? Fuck!

Edwards, Thompson Say U.S. Must Tackle Social Security Funding

Now Edwards is on the "Social Security" crisis bandwagon. How many times times do we have to say it? There is no crisis--except in the senile, teabag-silly, so-called minds of the Village elders, that is.

And now Obama's using a 20-year-old Jeff Gerth story to attack Hillary. My gawd, anybody who does oppo that lame doesn't deserve to be President!

Worse, Plame traitor Robert Novak played "Let's you and him fight" with Hillary and Obama about a fantasy scandal--and Hillary and Obama fell for it!

Why are they all gunning of the Village elder vote?

What's wrong with these people?

Novak writes today:

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Giuliani has stubbornly held on to first place in national surveys of Republican voters. His elevated status cannot be written off as merely superior name identification. He no longer seems uncomfortable as a Republican and clearly dominated last week's presidential debate in Dearborn, Mich. The real possibility that Giuliani might be the Republican nominee led a group of religious conservatives, who met in Salt Lake City on Sept. 29 under the leadership of James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, to consider a third-party alternative.

But the situation is not a simple confrontation between the Christian right and Giuliani. The Gallup data suggest that Dobson and the Salt Lake City group may be out of touch with rank-and-file churchgoers. A well-known social conservative, who asked that his name not be used, is disturbed by Dobson's statement he could not vote for Giuliani under any circumstances. Instead of being considered the lesser of two evils in a possible race against Sen. Hillary Clinton, Giuliani seems to be the positive choice of millions of religious Americans.

Yeah, well, the conventional wisdom as generated and propagated by the Village in which Novak is happily ensconced is always slow and wrong, which is why we read Glenn Greenwald, who called his shot on Tooliani months ago.

Greenwald wrote back in February:

What a surprise. So much for all that "unify the country" and conciliatory tone crap we keep hearing.

I'm not sure whether this is the best Robert Novak quote of all time, or just one of the greats. You decide:

President Bush just went too far in picking a friend who was loyal but also incompetent...

Right. That's sorted, then. Always nice to see Novak set the bar high.

Anyhow, the real message of Novak's column comes with the (presumably) short list that Bush is considering to replace--if that's possible--the late, unlamented Alberto Gonzales: