[Ronaldus Magnus]

Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson was a speaker at the convention so this loss on his home turf to an undeclared candidate has to sting.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Fred Thompson ‘eats a declared candidate’s lunch’ Ping!

[StACase]

I love Tommy, but he ain’t presidential.

How ‘bout a Thompson Thompson ticket?

[Luke21]

And Brownback was lucky he got any votes at all, dissing Brett Favre in favor of Peyton Manning in Packer country.

Any politician knows to praise the local team and local hero. Brownback is a bigger goofball than I thought, and I always thought he was a big one.

[gpapa]

**Which Republican candidate do you support for president in 2008?

-Sam Brownback 14
-Jim Gilmore 0
-Newt Gingrich 12
-Rudy Giuliani 35
-Chuck Hagel 0
-Mike Huckabee 0
-Duncan Hunter 3
-John McCain 10
-Mitt Romney 41
-Ron Paul 1
-Tom Tancredo 8
-Fred Thompson 95
-Tommy Thompson 84
-No response 2
-Write in 1

[Caipirabob]

I really want to hear and understand his platform. I hear he's a conservative, but then some FReepers suggested he was "John McCain's severed siamese twin" (mine, just to summarize some of the things being posted.) We need to start doing some fact finding to rebute these things.

That and I truly hope Fred is all that he appears to be.

I think it would be wise for those good at such things to pull as much of his previous history on legislation as possible so we know if Fred is truly "our guy".