Huffpo's Michael Roston has a follow-up on those reports (primarily in the Times) that White House front group Freedom's Watch was planning a big ad campaign in support of war with Iran. Roston runs down the list of who was or wasn't at the meeting. But the real nugget comes down at the bottom in trying to explain why FW has apparently shelved plans for their multi-mil ad campaign ....

Another Iran specialist said she believed that given the current tone of the presidential race, with many candidates on both the Democratic and Republican sides making muscular statements about Iran, the need for a group like Freedom's Watch to serve as a pro-attack vanguard had not yet been demonstrated.

"If you say anything irrational about Iran, it encourages all of the candidates to track to the right," said Suzanne Maloney, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. "I'm not sure you need a Freedom's Watch to encourage anyone to out-demogogue their opponents."

That pretty much covers it.