Another GOP Nutjob Throws Hat in Presidential Ring

Can't have enough of 'em, I say!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_el_pr/on_the2008_trail

DES MOINES, Iowa - Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson promised Wednesday to become a familiar face in Iowa in his quest for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination against better-financed rivals.

"I'm going to be here every week, at least one day every week," Thompson told The Associated Press. "I'm close enough to be able to do that and I'm going to develop a field organization and a grass-roots campaign like you haven't seen before."

Thompson was in Iowa to meet privately with key activists, laying the groundwork for his campaign. Thompson said he's betting heavily on his showing in a straw poll of Iowa Republicans in August and the state's leadoff precinct caucuses in January 2008.

Thompson, secretary of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services from 2001 to 2005, conceded he doesn't have the fundraising clout of better known GOP rivals such as Arizona Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), but he said money shouldn't be a problem.

:rofl:

any decent candidates to run!

after filing with the FEC in mid-December.

I want40 Pub candidates in the ring in 08, that way they'll canibalize each other!!!!!!

stay the fuck in Wisconsin.

here in Iowa. That is more than our share of punishment. And for the next year we get to host the likes of Guilianni and McCain and maybe the Newtie. Thompson might cause us to sink.

:puke:

"A big problem for Thompson, who has announced he's forming an exploratory committee, is that many people remember him for his last job -- as a Bush cabinet official -- and not his lengthy tenure as governor, which makes it harder for him to play the Washington outsider card. He's also an avid backer of Amtrak, which is anathema to many conservatives. He has little to no national security experience. And in a GOP field featuring possibly a war hero maverick (McCain), a 9/11 hero (Giuliani), and a telegenic governor (Romney), where does Thompson's money and support come from?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12304248/

But, after last night, McCain is toast. KO just gave him the kiss of death in his special commentary and it's going to get replayed over and over. Who knows?

And he has a chip on his shoulder and its going to be hell to pay for anyone complicit in this dismantling of our Constitution

He's not fundalicious like Brownback or Romney. Probably more of a moderate than McCain or Guiliani.

performance at the helm of HHS.

Some guy in a plastic suit held together with duct tape and a big sign saying "Do you feel safer yet?"