Thompson’s advisers aim to use the London events to bolster his foreign policy credentials and elevate him above the increasingly contentious fray of the GOP race. ~The Politico

Via Yglesias

I wish I could acquire “foreign policy credentials” just by going out of the country and giving a speech full of tired bromides about the “special relationship.”  Note that former Sen. Thompson doesn’t actually have any foreign policy credentials at the present time (just wait till you see who is advising him!).  In the Senate, he was chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee–not exactly Foreign Relations, is it? 

These items made me laugh out loud:

Liz Cheney, the former State Department official and the vice president’s elder daughter, is consulting on foreign policy. Longtime GOP guru Mary Matalin, a friend of Thompson, will help shape the campaign’s message.

That would be this Liz Cheney (via George Ajjan), and Mary Matalin, the woman who helped run an incumbent, victorious war President’s re-election into the ground (granted, she had a lot of help from the candidate and a funny guy from Texas).  So I guess all those hours labouring for Libby weren’t in vain after all, were they, Fred?  It would appear that he has the whole of Cheney’s ever-shrinking empire behind him.  That right there is as clear a strike against him as anything I’ve seen.