[fieldmarshaldj]

Farrow would be a good candidate, but her age is problematic. At best, she might only serve one term. WI is rather notorious for never having elected (until 1998) a woman to federal office. Alas, the "breakthrough" candidate was the leftist lesbian Tammy Baldwin in the Madison House seat. "Moderate" Republican Susan Engeleiter ran against Herb Kohl in '88 when the legendary Bill Proxmire retired and probably would've won had Kohl not spent a billion dollars to buy the seat. Unless we can persuade one of the "young turks" in the delegation to run, we should get behind Farrow. Of course, the 800-pound gorilla in WI would be the best bet, but I don't think Tommy Thompson will jump in (I think it more likely he may want to challenge the current Governor in '06).

[Kuksool]

{the "breakthrough" candidate was the leftist lesbian Tammy Baldwin in the Madison House seat.}

Too bad the GOP couldn't convince Reggie White to run for that House seat. Maybe he could be talked into running for Bill Frist's Senate seat in 2006.

The fact that the GOP gave very little support to Ron Greer's Congressional campaigns was an outrage. If the GOP wishes to embark on minority outreach, then it ought to provide serious support to African-American candidates.

[Pubbie]

Rove should lock Tommy Thompson, Paul Ryan, Mark Green, and Mark Neuman in a vault, and tell them, they're not leaving or getting any food or water, until one of them agrees to run for the Senate in '04.

Oh sure, people may say this strategy isn't *Legal* or *Ethical* but a political operative has got to do what a political operative has got to do...

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[Coop]

Farrow, who had passed up a weekend of fishing to attend the convention

If that's not a sign she's serious, I don't know what is!

Do you honestly think Thompson is interested in running for governor for the umpteenth time? Yes, it would get him back to WI, but...

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Farrow would be a good candidate, but her age is problematic."

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At this point, we have to take whomever we can get. I don't know why nobody wants to run against Feingold (who barely won re-election in 1998, and who is too liberal for Wisconsin), but, alas, there we are. My #1 choice would be Tommy Thompson, with Paul Ryan a close second, but neither wants to run.