Tommy Thompson announces presidential candadicy

[TheMightyFavog]

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070401/GPG0101/70401010/1978

WASHINGTON — Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson on Sunday joined the crowded field of Republicans running for the White House in 2008 and proclaimed himself the “reliable conservative” in the race.

Thompson, who was health and human services secretary during President Bush’s first term, also said he is the only GOP candidate who has helped assemble both a state and federal budget.

Since announcing last year he was forming a presidential exploratory committee to raise money and gauge support, Thompson has lagged behind better-known rivals.

Thompson, 65, has focused his strategy on Iowa, which holds the nation’s first caucuses for presidential nominees. He has made weekly visits to the state and sought to make the case that it will take a candidate who can carry the Midwest to win the nomination.

[Left Is Write]

1. Good luck with that, Tommy.

[Catshrink]

2. Please tell me this is an April Fools joke

Tommy Fool Thompson has no chance.

[Goblinmonger]

3. There's only one thing to say

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

My questions for him in any town hall:
How's that anthrax scare investigation going?
How did you fuck up the flu vaccine so badly.

What a maroon.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Anyone could beat this "tom-tom".

Go for it.

[phaseolus]

5. Does he still have that mistress in Wisconsin Rapids?

...or did he trade her in for a younger model?

This guy's a "family values" republican in the mold of Gingrich, Limbaugh, or that other local Wisconsin boy Charlie Sykes...

[youngdem]

6. Announcing on April Fool's Day is apropos

[POAS]

7. Think of the possibility of a

Thompson/Thompson ticket in 2008. Fred and Tommy, the GOP twins.

[youthere]

12. The Thompson twins...:"Don't you want me baby?" NO!!!

[Subdivisions]

8. Ha! He actually announced his candidacy for President this

morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulus and I even started to post about it but I really had nothing to say about it besides just to announce if for announcing its sake. So I didn't post.

And as far as I can tell, this is the first post in GD to mention it.

[Ben Masel]

9. tommy

Nine Republicans are running for their Presidential nomination. Who'da thunk our Tommy would be the smart one.

[newyawker99]

11. Hi Ben Masel!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[davidwparker]

10. be still my heart.

[TwilightGardener]

13. Wasn't he a four-term gov--plus the H&HS thing--sadly, he's probably

the most qualified of the R's.