A sleeping giant wakes up :: Power Line
The Republican candidates had another debate tonight, this one in Florida on Fox. The Fox people came up with a novel approach to attacking the candidates. Instead of having their folks do it, after the fashion of Chris Matthews or (less sickeningly) Tim Russert, Fox "privatized" the job, attempting to induce the candidates to go after each other.
It worked. Right out of the box, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani went at it, and soon thereafter John McCain attacked Mitt Romney (not that this requires much inducing). Thompson gave at least as good as he got in his clash with Rudy. On the question of "who is the real conservative," Thompson presented the list of social issues as to which Guiliani has taken liberal positions, and also cited Rudy's support of Mario Cuomo for governor. Giuliani responded by attacking Thompson for voting against tort reform as a Senator. But Thompson countered that he supported tort reform with respect to key federal statutes, while opposing, for reasons of federaism, attempts to interfere with state tort law. Giuliani ended the encounter with his usual refrain about his New York record, a sure sign that he's having trouble defending himself on the merits as a conservative.
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