{"id":2181,"date":"2007-03-09T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/more-buzz-on-a-thompson-run.html"},"modified":"2007-03-09T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T06:31:00","slug":"more-buzz-on-a-thompson-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/more-buzz-on-a-thompson-run.html","title":{"rendered":"More Buzz on a Thompson Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/jonathanmartin\/0307\/Return_Of_The_Red_Truck.html\">Jonathan Martin<\/a> of Politico:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m more than a little skeptical of Thompson actually running, but one well-connected Tennessee Republican said the Senate Watergate Committee counsel turned Law &amp; Order star is giving it a look.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Fox News report is accurate, he is still considering it,&#8221; said the source, alluding to a Carl Cameron report last week that had Thompson &#8220;seriously considering&#8221; a bid.<br \/>\nMy source, who has not gotten behind an &#8217;08 candidate, said what was striking was that Thompson had not yet endorsed Sen. John McCain.  The former senator got behind his fellow Tennessean, Lamar Alexander, early in both of Lamar&#8217;s! presidential bids.  When Alexander dropped out in 1999 following a weak showing at the Ames straw poll, though, Thompson got on board with McCain&#8217;s campaign, serving as a national co-chair.    The two remain close.<br \/>\nName identification, of course, would not be a problem as Thompson remains on TV every week and, thanks to ABC and the Paul Harvey Show, is also frequently on the radio.   He&#8217;s also familiar to Republican activists from his working of the chicken dinner circuit for the party in the 90s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantbiz.com\/2007\/03\/fred_watch.html\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/draft+Fred+Thompson\" rel=\"tag\">draft Fred Thompson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/presidential+candidate\" rel=\"tag\">presidential candidate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Republican\" rel=\"tag\">Republican<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jonathan Martin of Politico: I&#8217;m more than a little skeptical of Thompson actually running, but one well-connected Tennessee Republican said the Senate Watergate Committee counsel turned Law &amp; Order star is giving it a look. &#8220;The Fox News report is accurate, he is still considering it,&#8221; said the source, alluding to a Carl Cameron&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More Buzz on a Thompson Run - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/03\/more-buzz-on-a-thompson-run.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Buzz on a Thompson Run - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Jonathan Martin of Politico: I&#8217;m more than a little skeptical of Thompson actually running, but one well-connected Tennessee Republican said the Senate Watergate Committee counsel turned Law &amp; 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