tommy thompson to announce presidential run - 10:35 edt

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

c-span will cover it.

[warrior1]

1. Who?

[HereSince1628]

2. Not the late banjo player...TT= ex WI Gov, seeking resurrection.

On Easter no less

I still think he hopes to gain primary votes by name confusion with Fred Thompson.

[rpannier]

3. Outstanding

We are one step closer to EVERYBODY (except me) running for the presidency.

on a serious note:

Exactly what does he bring to the table that the other pukes don't?

McCain has the hypocritical liar vote
Guliani has the swooning, misinformed, sheeple vote
Romney has the ann 'shrill voice of treason' coulter vote
Brownback has the extremist American Taliban vote
Tancredo has the hate spewing, xenophobic, minority hating michael 'weiner' savage vote
Fred Thompson has the couch potato vote

I mean where does thompson fit in?

Maybe the 'We hate the poor vote?"
But he'd still have to compete against rudi and tancredo for those voters.

[Czolgosz]

15. Tommy Thompson has the "health care is for the wealthy" vote. His tenure as director

Under Thompson's term as Secretary Health and Human Services, the American health care crisis deepened tragically.

[rpannier]

20. Thank you

Now I know which niche he fills.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Again?

I thought he announced last week. Was everyone laughing too hard to hear him?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

9. maybe it's a replay.

[kevinmc]

17. Republicans have short memories ........

He was on ABC last Sunday and announced it.

[Botany]

5. Thanx for the memories

The man who admitted that they used terror warnings when bush's
poll numbers went down?

[skipos]

6. I don't know much about him, but he would win WI

from what I can tell, and that makes his nomination unappealing to me. I am all for Mitt, who would lose MA, is an unabashed flip flopper, and woul lose a lot of votes (right or wrong) because of his religion

[htuttle]

8. What? LOL, which Wisconsin are you talking about?

He was popular once, but we were plenty done with him by the time he left the governor's office...and left us with a record-breaking budget deficit..

[skipos]

13. I am talking about the WI that elected him 4 times by sizeable margins

1986 Race for Governor
o Tommy Thompson (R), 53%
o Tony Earl (D) (inc.), 46%

1990 Race for Governor
o Tommy Thompson (R), 58%
o Tom Loftus (D), 42%

1994 Race for Governor
o Tommy Thompson (R), 67%
o Chuck Chvala (D), 31%

1998 Race for Governor
o Tommy Thompson (R), 60%
o Ed Garvey (D), 39%

It took 16 years for WI to be done with him? Yikes.

Further, in presidential elections WI is not historically as blue as people think.
In 1992, WI voted 1% more Republican than the rest of the country. In 1996, they voted 2% more Democratic, in 2000 they voted 1% more Republican, in 2004 they voted 3% more Democratic.

Sound like a swing state to me.

Vice Presidential nominees usually get @ a 5% boost from their homestate, Presidential nominees get about a 10% boost.

[vireo]

18. WI will likely be a battleground again

I suspect Tommy is angling for the VP slot.

[Clark2008]

7. Yawn.

[htuttle]

10. He's announcing on Easter morning? What a dumbass

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Is there some symbolic intent there?

Tommy Thompson is risen from the dead or something?

Not that anyone would notice.

[htuttle]

12. Maybe he's trying to keep a low profile by announcing when his base isn't watching TV

:rofl:

[Botany]

14. He could go for;

I am Tommy Thompson and I LAMB running for President.
I HAM what I HAM. And leadership is the cross I must carry so
as to help America "rise up" once again.

[sellitman]

16. The Repukes are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I guess the voting machines will put one of their comrades into office no matter how foolish a person they choose?

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Response

:boring:

[JI7]

21. i wonder if he is hoping to get support from the morons who don't know

that he is not FRED Thompson.