Thompson Train To Arrive At Empty Station

Grandpa Freddie Thompson is showing the outlines of a highly detailed and knowledgeable campaign. In just a week or so we've learned that Freedie thinks that somebody ought to do something about Al Qaeda, that the Terri Schiavo case was a couple years ago so it's hard to remember it, and that there's no oil in the Everglades.

Now, Freddie is ready to take these Miss South Carolina-like oratorical skills to the debate stage. And he's going to jump right in with... a debate that's already been cancelled.

Now this is awkward. On Monday, Fred Thompson's campaign put out a press release saying he had agreed to three debates in October. However, it turns out that one of those debates, in New Hampshire on October 14th, had already been cancelled by ABC News.

To be fair, how could Thompson have known that ABC cancelled that debate? It probably happened a few weeks ago. That's outside the "memory line" of 15 minutes that he appears to have.

Man, who knew that campaignin' was so hard?