CBS:
Even while former senator and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson hasn’t officially started his bid for the White House, his online presence would make you think that there isn’t even a question.
Thompson’s website (www.imwithfred.com) is multifaceted, enabling users, for example, to find their local media to contact newspapers and talk radio to show […]
Weekly Standard:
FRED THOMPSON IS adding more big-name policy talent as his testing-the-waters committee continues to grow into a real presidential campaign. Among the new additions: Mark Esper, national security adviser to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Joel Shin, a top policy staffer on Bush-Cheney 2000; and Elizabeth Cheney, a former top official in the […]
Is he in or is he out?
Aides to Fred Thompson, the actor-politician considered a likely presidential candidate, have had repeated conversations with Iowa Republicans about him possibly competing in the straw poll in August.
“They want to know what it’s going to look like, how the voting works, the logistics of it and how the program […]
Fred is to make a “campaign” stop in South Carolina prior to his announcement. Too bad I won’t be in South Carolina at the time:
In advance of an announcement of his presidential bid, Fred Thompson is scheduling a visit to South Carolina.
State Senator Larry Grooms is helping organize Thompson’s efforts in South Carolina and says […]
Evan-Novak Political Report:
Even before the official announcement of candidacy by former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), an all-star team of GOP operatives is gathering around him — Lawrence Lindsey, Ken Khachigian, Tim Griffin, Dave Bossie and Victoria Toensing, with more to follow.
Griffin was a former U.S. attorney in Arkansas and research director of the Republican […]
ABC News:
Television actor and former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson’s flirtation with running for president is drawing mostly a collective yawn from his Republican rivals.
Thompson’s prospective race is being hailed by some Republicans as a way to save the party in the November 2008 presidential election against a group of 10 candidates who have been unable […]
Fred Thompson apparently will joined Rudy Giuliani and John McCain and skip the Iowa straw poll in early August:
With Guiliani and McCain quitting the straw poll - and with former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson expected to soon enter the presidential race, also likely to bypass it - that would leave only Mitt Romney among the […]
Newsmax reports Fred’s exploratory committee is predicting the need to raise $4.6 Million to go official.
Earlier this month, Thompson was able to raise the maximum donation of $2,300 from 100 members of the First-Day Founders group.
Holy cow:
# Averaged close to 1,500 people per hour signing up as friends
# Averaged $12,000 per hour in contributions
# Raised more than $220,000 dollars via the website
# Seen just under half of the Friends send a message to others asking them to sign up or give.