Posted on 09/19/2011 1:26:15 PM PDT by SMGFan
(Reuters) - Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson said Monday he planned to join the increasingly crowded race for the Wisconsin senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Herb Kohl.
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As a conservative(fiscal/social), I’d give him 6 on a scale of 1-10.
For years I was hoping for him to challenge the incumbent Demo-rat senators and he always disappointed me.
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?
“Old and ugly people like Thompson don’t fit in.”
Especially retreads from the Bush Administration that would lose in the general election if they win the primary.
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.
No he won’t. Most of the establishment is sick of him.
eh, Mark Neumann...isn’t he running? And isn’t he a legit conservative (working from memory here)?
Thanks for the list. I’ll need that for later.
No more retrend RINO’s. Give us another Ron Johnson, Lord!
Exactly ! Wisconsin was not this conservative state ! It took 10 yrs to slowly convert and make republicans win the state ! Now, Tommy wants to jump in and reap the benefit????? Sorry buddy !!
The National Club for Growth is running ads in the Milwaukee area accusing him of being in favor of Obamacare, and I think he came out for Cap and Trade (Gore’s proposal) too.
I think Tommy’s time has come and gone.
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