Thompson looks to connect in SC

Reports on Fred Thompson's first trip to South Carolina as an unofficial presidential candidate are trickling in. The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder says Thompson was "on the ball" today in his luncheon address to Republicans in Columbia, devoting much of his speech to immigration, Iraq, and terrorism. Ambinder writes: "The substance was about what you'd expect from a conservative candidate, but Thompson, for the time I've seen, seemed jazzed up. And the crowd reciprocated with several loud bursts of applause." Read the rest of his account here.