Fred Thompson's folks are sending out his hit against Mike Huckabee, who was on CNN this morning and used the phrase "living, breathing Constitution." Video here, go to about the 4 minute mark. The Fred File concedes that Huckabee wasn't talking about the interpretation of the Constitution, but rather the passage of amendments - like the Human Life Amendment, which Thompson opposes:
Now I know Governor Huckabee was talking about amending the Constitution, but I don’t think he understood that he was using code words that support judicial activism.
He does not appear to understand that reliance on the notion that the Constitution is a living, breathing document is precisely the kind of wrong-headed thinking about the Constitution that gave us Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion across our nation, and Lawrence v. Texas, which decriminalized sodomy.
Now here's the problem: just the other day in South Carolina, as Erick reported, Thompson has taken to saying:
Saying the Reagan Coalition is dead is like saying the Constitution is dead.
Well, that's a good line, but respectfully now: which is it? Is it bad to call the Constitution living, or bad to call it dead? Now I'm just confused.
For my part - as Huckabee's website indicates - my copy appears to be inanimate.