Jonathan: Just so, and I am sorry to have slighted Fred Thompson. His own diffident campaign style makes it all too easy, while it also bespeaks his very attractive quality of plainly not taking politics too seriously. I ought to know better, as every time I fail to mention Fred I get hurt emails from Fredians. A Thompson-Paul ticket would be almost as satisfactory to small-govt constitutionalists, certainly to this one, as a Paul-Thompson ticket.