Fear of Thompson.

Ezra explains why, however obnoxious is Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson is the worst Republican in the field: he's clueless, and that's just how the GOP establishment, and the lobby groups who depend on the GOP establishment, like it.

Plus, the claim that Canadians pay "nearly half their incomes in taxes" is bogus. Moreover, by OECD estimates, our share of taxes this year - 39.9% - will be only 5.7 percentage points higher than the U.S. share of taxes and 1.2 percentage points higher than the OEDC average.