As a conservative(fiscal/social), I’d give him 6 on a scale of 1-10.
Anti-Second Amendment RINO is what I’d call him.
Tommy is an 80s moderate Republican. He is yesterdays news and most of we conservative WI Republicans won’t back him for this senate seat. We are hoping another candidate like our new senator Ron Johnson will emerge.
I know Wisconsin can do better than this retread.
Step up, Tea Party. No more GOP party hacks.
go Neumann!
Into a retirement home would be nice.
Old and ugly people like Thompson don't fit in.
I'll put it to you this way.
He was secretary of HHS under Bush, and essentially let go, because of how liberal he was.
Thompson would have fit into a Democratic administration just fine though.
Can’t this old RINO find a straight job? Again with elected office. Was there a clamoring in WI for this dude to run?
He will probably get the nomination on name recognition alone. He will have the full support of the RINO establishment.
1) He left WI deeply in debt.2. He refused to help his Lt. Governor one iota in his LTG's re-election bid.
3. He even refused to move out of the Governor's Mansion for months after he moved to DC as HHS Secty. As a consequence, his Lt. Gov. had no bas of operations for nearly a year.
4. When he left HHS at the end of Bush's first term, he stated publically: "I don't know why the terrorists haven't attacked our food supply because it would be so easy."
5. He meddled in the Gubanatorial election of 2004 to know Scott Walker out, thereby causing our state to agonize uner the rule of Jim Doyle for another 4 years, thus nearly bankrupting us.
6. He's meddled in every election in WI since he left the Governorship, undermining all the other candidates, leaving us in the hands of the Rats. He couldn't turn the tide in 2008 with his mischief, and luckily we got Scott Walker and Ron Johnson. But it wasn't for lack of trying on Tommy's part.
7. I suspect that all this positioning about running is just an excuse to keep his campaign fund open to fill his coffers. He'll drop out at the last minute. He always does.
Why would the GOP support a new senate candidate who would be 72 by the time he took office, 78 by the start of a second term?
The simple truth is that a good candidate who rides in on a wave year can hang on in most states through tougher times—and there’s a huge advantage to running to having your guy already in office before an election.
But if he’s drooling on himself and packing Depends, he’s ripe to be picked off. They should really be looking to get as many congressmen and senators in their 30’s, 40’s and 50’s planted in office next year as possible.
Go Jeff Fitzgerald !
It’s official. On the other side, it looks like Tammy Baldwin has the nomination wrapped up.
He’s an old-fashioned Eastern-coast-style Rockefeller Republican...IOW... RINO through & through