Jill Stanek must be so proud. In St. Paul last night, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-TN) casually dropped this line into his RNC address:

We need a President, and Vice President, who will take the federal bureaucracy by the scruff of the neck and give it a good shaking. And my friends we need a President who doesn't think that the protection of the unborn or a newly born baby is above his pay grade.

"Newly born baby," huh? Clearly, this was red meat for the pro-life conservatives who have equated Barack Obama's votes in the Illinois Senate on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) with supporting infanticide. Too bad Obama's views on this legislation are (and were) perfectly in line with legislators from both sides of the aisle.

(H/T TPM)