The Washington Post has had a heyday making fun of Fred Thompson’s name.

In the swampy soup of hopefuls for the 2008 presidential election, there is a man with a funny name. (No, not that one.)

We’re thinking of the one named Fred (Thompson).

Say it out loud. Do it. Fred. Fred. In the South, Fray-ud.

Fur-red-duh.

It has the tonal quality of something being dropped on the floor, something heavy and damp-ish.

Waterlogged paper towel.

Fred.

The article notes that there has never been a ‘Fred’ who has run for President. Unless I’m mistaken, I don’t think there’s been a Hillary or Barrack running for President either.

Just stop and think for a minute. What if the Weekly Standard or some other right leaning publication spent an entire editorial article making fun of Barrack Hussein Obama’s name.

The left would be screaming bloody-murder. That’s what.