Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Thompson, were no crime.
…But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.
“Democratic aides argue that [Fred] Thompson could be violating campaign finance laws by ‘ducking’ a full filing,” reports Mike Allen in The Politico. Legal or not, the foot-dragging is starting to get a bit unseemly — not to mention ironic. “In the Senate, Thompson was an advocate of campaign-finance reform, and held four months of hearings on the Democratic campaign finance scandals in 1997,” notes Allen.
