That didn’t take long

Last night, I noted that John McCain has largely been exempt from attack by his Republican competitors (other than Mitt Romney), but suggested that this will change if McCain wins in Michigan. But Fred Thompson, needing to overtake McCain in South Carolina regardless of what happens elsewhere, has decided not to wait for the votes to be counted in Michigan. Here, he lumps McCain with Mike Huckabee, both of whom he says “are moving away from what I consider to be the sound Constitutional principles that the Reagan coalition was founded upon.”