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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said today he hasn't ruled out a run for the presidency in 2008 but stressed that he hasn't given the matter much thought. Frist, who was the keynote speaker at a Leadership Knoxville Alumni Luncheon, said he is concentrating on his role in the Senate and will put off any decisions on future political moves until after he steps down in 2006. "I'm going to come right back home to Tennessee," the Nashville Republican said. Frist said he might ponder a presidential bid "if that were an option" after he leaves the Senate but...

The recent flurry of speculation about Phil Bredesen becoming a presidential candidate - the next Bubba, as a Wall Street Journal headline suggested - is both understandable and sheer fantasy. Yes, the New Republic may report that he is "quietly reaching out through his surrogates to potential allies in the event he decides to run" for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Bredesen says that is totally incorrect and "nobody who is aligned with me" has done anything along those lines. He has no intent. He has no plans. Then again, a politician never says never about a future presidential possibility....