After weeks of top-tier democrats squabbling with one another its nice to see a change of pace. Now top-tier Republicans are ready to go at it.

Today Fred Thompson, who isn’t running yet, took a swipe at Rudy Giuliani. On his Web site Thompson wrote:

When I was working in television, I spent quite a bit of time in New York City. There are lots of things about the place I like, but New York gun laws don’t fall in that category.

Anybody who knows me knows I’ve always cared deeply about the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. So I’ve always felt sort of relieved when I flew back home to where that particular civil liberty gets as much respect as the rest of the Bill of Rights.

Thompson of course was going after Rudy Giuliani whom he mentioned later in the post:

Now, the same activist federal judge from Brooklyn who provided Mayor Giuliani’s administration with the legal ruling it sought to sue gun makers, has done it again. Last week, he created a bizarre justification to allow New York City to sue out-of-state gun stores that sold guns that somehow ended up in criminal hands in the Big Apple.

Meanwhile Mitt Romney has also been swiping Giuliani over NYC’s status as a “sanctuary city” or place where illegal immigrants can go without fear of prosecution.

Lisa Wangsness writes in the Boston Globe about Mitt Romney’s use of 1950’s slang to prove a point. I don’t quite know what that point is though other than she believes it is some part of a conservative mechanism to touch nostalgia in America. Which I think is the cats meow.

Actually I think its a pretty weak article with little point, not unlike that horrendous and offensive Hillary Clinton’s cleavage article I read not long ago.

Basically you can add this to the ‘dumb articles about presidential candidates’ file.

Found via DailyKos. Mitt Romney, a large supporter of the Iraq war, was asked by a woman in Iowa why none of his five sons, all eligible for military service, are serving the nation. His response?

“My sons are all adults and they’ve made decisions about their careers and they’ve chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard. One of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping me get elected because they think I’d be a great president.“

Ouch, that really isn’t a good response by any measure.

The Associated Press asked Rachel Griffiths if she was satisfied with the answer to her question.

“Of course not. He told me the way his son shows support for our military and our nation is to buy a Winnebago and ride across Iowa and help him get elected.”

In the Republican debate which no one I’ve talked to watched yesterday Mitt Romney referred to Rudy Giuliani as being “pro-gay-marriage” and he now takes it back saying Rudy is “pro-civil-union”. We can all breath a sigh of relief.

Romney at the RNC debate today discussing Senator Barack Obama’s recent foreign policy statements:

“I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies,” said Romney. “I mean, he’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.” (Associated Press)