Michael Gerson
Posted at 1:38am on Jan. 19, 2008 Clueless Columnist
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
That most unheroic of conservatives--if he can still be called a conservative--Michael Gerson, gives us yet more evidence for the proposition that he is auditioning to become the Kevin Phillips of the 21st Century. In this column favors us with his insight that because Fred Thompson looks askance on the proposition that government exists to do God's work, he "lack[s] moral seriousness." Specifically, Thompson was asked if "as a Christian, as a conservative," he supported the Bush Administration's global AIDS initiative. Gerson records Thompson's response was as follows:
