Political bits

(TPM) Rudy Giuliani tries to explain away his vote for McGovern.

(WaPo) Thompson tries to "New York City" Rudy Giuliani. ("He relates everything to New York City. Well, New York City is not emblematic of the rest of the country...")

(WaPo) Thompson announced a pretty radical tax plan, but it was overshadowed by his complaints that FoxNews is biased against him.

(Politico) An interesting pre-mortem on the Thompson campaign.

(Newsweek) A giant piece on Giuliani's background.

(Politico) Giuliani has to resort to retail politics in NH.

And, (NYTimes) the GOP is recruiting of self financing millionaire candidates as policy to make up for the historic fundraising gap.