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IMHO, if Tommy announces anything it will be to run against "Nobody's Senator" Herb Kohl. Kohl has been awoken from his normal state of stupor and has actually been CAMPAIGNING, already. I know! It's been an amazing thing to watch. Well, actually, his STAFFERS have been campaigning. Herb's still snoozing in a corner somewhere. *Smirk*

Tommy's not coming back down to a state level. After hob-knobbing in DC? Puh-leeze. He was a cr@ppy HHSD, but the MSM didn't crucify him, so your average schmuck will only know the good and not the bad that is Tommy.

He's just doing this to yank Governor Doyle's (D, WI) chain who he hates with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. :)

Brett Farve is yanking our chain these days, too. Seems to be a Wisconsin-Thang. *Rolleyes*

I think so too--I don't see him running for Governor again.

There's no way we're going to give Kohl a freebie. Not after the last few elections being razor-thin.

And I know this'll tick off a few people here, but I truly believe Walker's drop-out is going to help us more than hinder. It means that (at least on the surface) we're a united front for Doyle and his special interest complex to take on.

Having a primary would have killed both Republican candidates and would have for all intents and purposes guaranteed Doyle a very easy victory in November.

Plus, I find it hard to believe the RINOs in the party engineered Walker's bow-out. It's because Walker couldn't meet the viability goal his campaign set at the end of March. And the polls at the time showed Doyle's lead over Walker outside the margin of error.

Thus Walker dropped out not because of RINO pressure, but the fact that he couldn't match Doyle in fundraising and the polls showed Green to be a stronger candidate to oust Doyle. And much of what he had would have been spent in a bloody primary that would have killed Walker and crippled Green--which in turn would give us four more years.

Now don't get me wrong--and as I've said before, I think Walker's a very great guy and has a solid political future. Unfortunately, it isn't his turn yet for the Governor's Mansion.

But the real test will be if Green can serve as a true Conservative while Governor. I believe he can--however, politics does have a strange habit of changing people.