Comments on: Sorry Tommy — The Presidential Boat has Sailed

By: John-david Morgan

John-david Morgan — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:09:55 +0000

I do think Tommy is smart, politically, but his policies — W-2, the privatization of foster care, short-sighted taxation — have done a fair amount of damage to Milwaukee and the state. He is quite an independent though, and fairly moderate socially [not a supporter of the death penalty or of attacking womens' reproductive freedoms]. Mark Green, a wind-up toy Republican, is not Tommy’s kind of guy, despite his appreciation of Green’s lack of independence when Green was in the Legislature.

Tommy’s big problem in Washington was in getting the Bush White House to focus on anything but war. His frustration in this, and his view that it’s a global policy disaster, is a perspective that Republicans could use in their presidential primary.

McCain just might make every other candidate, Republican or Democrat, an afterthought.

By: KRM

KRM — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:33:01 +0000

I Agree, Feingold had a much better chance at the Democratic Nomination then Thompson did at the Republican Nomination. Feingold has more integrity and consistently is able to defend and stand by his record. Thompson would be more of the same and too much like our current failing President; a legacy that raised taxes on the poor and cutting taxes for the rich and leaving behind large deficits for someone else to deal with.

By: Jim McGuigan

Jim McGuigan — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:13:53 +0000

Feingold actually had a chance at the nomination. Tommy has none. McCain has all but sewn up the nomination.

JD,
Your comment about Tommy being “too smart” was interesting. I’ll give this to Tommy — he knows how to surround himself with hard hitting people and some excellent hatchet men. In the book of politicking, Tommy deserves a chapter but when it comes to the book on policymaking, he barely gets a footnote.

By: John-david Morgan

John-david Morgan — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:51:35 +0000

I like both their chances to be Midwesterners, Wisconsities, who have a lot to say and could/would change the course of the 2008 presidential race. Our perspective (the Wisconsin view) is needed nationally in the worst way. Both Thompson and Feingold would deliver that, in their own ways.

Tommy’s too smart to like a guy like Mark Green, btw.

By: Jane Roe

Jane Roe — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:56:22 +0000

Tommy’s chances are about the same as Feingold’s (even before he ‘officially’ took his name out of the race).