Must Be the Season of the Fred

Published: August 16, 2007, 12:23 am

Tags: presidential race 2008, thompson fred, collins gail

By GAIL COLLINS Published: August 16, 2007 August. Everybody but you is out of town. Congress is in recess. The Iraqi Parliament, of course, is long gone. You-know-who is in Texas. It's 107 degrees in Crawford, but that brush wants cutting.Karl Rove is going on hiatus forever. The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been summering in Wolfeboro, N.H., enjoying the scenery and yelling at photographers. Wolfeboro is something of a hangout for famous politicians Mitt Romney has a vacation house there, and Rudy Giuliani was there just the other day, buying coffee heath yogurt. He also gave his most basic stump speech, which involves announcing that Americans don't lose and making repeated references to Ronald Reagan. The only problem with campaigning for the New Hampshire primary in a tourist spot is that your audience is generally not from New Hampshire. I'm a fan; we like him out in Indiana, said Betty King, who got Giuliani's autograph. I

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