Kaus wonders if there may be a "comprehensive" reason for Fred Thompson reportedly not meeting with "conservative theoretician" Jeff Bell:

Was it maybe because Thompson has distinguished himself from the field by strongly opposing Bush's misguided illegal-immigrant semi-amnesty proposal, while Bell a) supported it; b) worked for La Raza, which helped draft it and c) erroneously (and self-servingly) declared to pro-legalization pundit Fred Barnes that the political tide had turned Bush's way? ...