HEY THAT'S MY SIDE OF THE STREET

Joe Monahan points out that a New Republic blogger is suggesting a campaign theme song for Gov. Bill Richardson.

Ahem! I said AHEM!

But Michael Crowley is suggesting a song that neither I not the readers who responded to my original column had thought of.

Bill Richardson advisor Steve Murphy just defended his boss on MSNBC. Asked by Tucker Carlson about the opening anecdote in Ryan Lizza's new TNR piece, in which Richardson bizarrely tickles the head of a woman he's never met at a baseball game, Murphy declared: "Everybody touches everybody!"

Here's the campaign theme Crowley suggested: