Posted on 07/25/2007 8:33:04 AM PDT by pissant
Growing pains within Fred Thompson's "non-campaign" for president in 2008 revealed themselves in a big way Tuesday.
For months, the former Tennessee senator has been rising in the polls by merely "testing the waters" and refusing to undertake the traditional trappings of a presidential campaign.
But there has been much speculation about the role of Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson, and today, a senior adviser to Fred Thompson today stepped out of a day-to-day role in the campaign because of friction with her.
When asked to confirm reports that Tom Collamore would reduce his role to senior adviser, two senior Thompson insiders adamantly denied it to FOX News today, insisting that the emergence of Randy Enright as campaign manager and the reduction of Tom Collamore's role had always been part of the plan.
But multiple sources close to Thompson now tell FOX News that denial was inaccurate. In fact, Collamore and Kehn butted heads, and that was partially responsible for Collamore's move.
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Yawn.
The other GOP campaigns are panicking.... Really lame so called leaks from the FDT campaign....I would say that this is McCain spin....
I know. But ain’t this all we need - a candidate with a wife who can’t or won’t shut up?
Oh, come one—this is big...I mean really BIG. I’m certain that this means—hold on now—more FReepers on the Duncanista pinglist. Remember, you heard it from me first!
Wives frequently cause problems for candidates. Like it or not, it's a factor in today's media driven world. Rudy doesn't fare much better in that department either.
Isn’t everything Carl Cameron reports on big news? LOL
Former MI senator nitwit Spence Abraham who couldn’t even beat Debbie Stabenow (the dangerously incompetent one) as an incumbent, now a campaign manager for Thompson does not strike me a good decision.
McCains his best bud. Probably those nasty Hunter or Mitt campaigns did it.
On the plus side for Fred, he was not foolish enough to announce to the world on Bwahbwah Walters that his wife would be his most trusted adviser, ala Rudy
Another slow news day I guess.
Cmon now, Howdy Doody is the best. LOL
Adding more salt to the soup behind he cooks back.
Lets see how much mileage this non news gets?
How can she win? If she did back down, the MSM would be calling her a bimbo trophy wife.
True. Fred's wife might do that herself. ;-)
You shouldn’t pick a fight with the boss’s wife...
This sounds like typical office politics of the same garden variety you'd find in any organization. But because it's in a presidential campaign arena, it's suddenly fraught with meaning. If Carl Cameron were to hang out at any corporate water cooler, he'd get an earful from multiple sources there too. Snubbed or underappreciated employees always have a story about the boss's wife or some other external influence to explain just why things are the way they are.
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