Jen Rubin says it isn’t just the New York Times that is giving Thompson bad reviews on the campaign trail, pointing to George Will, Bob Novak, James Dobson and David Frum. Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics contends, “there is a serious disconnect between the impression Fred is leaving on the media and the one he is leaving on voters.”

Yup, some days, we in the press get way too excited over a reference to the Soviet Union*, or a wrong name on a press release.

If Fred Thompson’s style were as disastrous as some accounts would have us believe, he wouldn’t be at 20 percent nationwide in Gallup, 18 percent in the most recent Des Moines Register poll, leading with 24 percent in the Rasmussen poll in South Carolina, 24 percent in the Strategic Vision poll in Florida…

*Obviously, when asked about Russian help to Iran’s nuclear program, his answer should have incorporated the words, “Russians don’t take a dump, son, without a plan.”