If you read only one column today...

Read Peggy Noonan. She was on today:

While the other candidates bang away earnestly in a frozen format, (Fred) Thompson continues to sneak up from the creek and steal their underwear--boxers, briefs and temple garments.

He is running a great campaign...It has been going on for months and is aimed at the major pleasure zones of the Republican brain.

...These comments and opinions are being read and forwarded in Internet Nation. They are revealing and interesting, but they're not heavy, not homework. They have an air of "This is the sound of a candidate thinking." That's an unusual sound.

Most illustrative was what started this week as a small trading of barbs with provocateur Michael Moore, whose general and iconic dishabille is meant to show identification with the workingman, though in America workingmen bathe.